To know how often the pages of your app are viewed or which feature is used the most is hugely important. It lets you know how to improve your app, and more importantly what to improve in priority.
Roman Nurik, Android Developer Advocate at Google pointed out this need in this post about « Improving App Quality ».
As he says, statistics can lead you to move some less used functionalities of your app into a sub-menu, or even remove them entirely.
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.
This post is the first of a series of articles and samples targeting Microsoft’s newest mobile OS, Windows Phone 7 (WP7).
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