juin 25
This post will focus on animations. While Silverlight is a very capable technology for creating rich user interfaces, Windows Phone 7’s UI languages, codenamed Metro, has very strong red threads and principles which push typography, panoramic navigation and animation. One might find the experience a bit bland at first, but it really comes alive when one sees the UI in motion. A post dedicated to Metro is planned, but for now I suggest you read these nice articles.
If you base your design principles on Metro and try to embrace the design of WP7’s default applications, you will want to animate parts of your UI on actions or based on a timer.
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juin 24
Have you ever wanted to demo your apps on the big screen, just like Steve Jobs does in his famous keynote speeches? Up until recently, this wasn’t possible to do without jailbreaking your iPhone. Starting in iPhone OS 3.2 and iOS 4.0+, a new set of public APIs exposes the dock connector’s ability to interface with big screen TVs and PC monitors. You can either use the composite / component AV cable or the new VGA dongle accessories to connect to an external display.
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juin 21
This post is the first of a series of articles and samples targeting Microsoft’s newest mobile OS, Windows Phone 7 (WP7).
Read on to learn about:
- the development platform
- the development frameworks
- designing for Windows Phone 7
- getting up to speed quickly
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