a lap around windows phone 8.1

Windows Phone 8.1@NicoVermeir

A lap around

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@NicoVermeir

Nico_vermeir@hotmail.com

www.spikie.be

Who am I?

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Agenda Whats new Emulator Two APIs? WTF? Background Tasks Navigation App lifecycle Sharing Universal apps

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WHAT’S NEW?Speed dial

Ghost notifications

Custom lockscreen

Dual Sim support

Custom SMS apps

New app lifecycle

VPNMail notification icon

Action Center

Seperate volume controls

QHD resolution

Weekview

Swipe keyboard

Slide to close app

Native Youtube playerGeofencing

Auto-update

New screenshot button

Friggin’ Cortana!

Share between apps

Bluetooth LE

Background images

Sync between WP / Win8

Install apps on SDSense apps

Podcasts

Universal apps

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Controls

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DEMOWindows Phone 8.1 Emulator

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TWO API SETSWindows Phone 8.1

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Silverlight

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RuntimeSimilar to Windows Store RuntimeSimil

DEMOTwo APIs

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Background Tasks Works in both SL and Runtime Don’t mix Background agents

(WP8.0) with Background tasks (WP8.1)

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DEMOBackground tasks

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SL vs WinPRTSome agents not available in RT Continous background location Run under lockscreen VOIP Wallet

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Geofencing Location based background task

trigger

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DEMOGeofencing

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Navigation – WP8.0NavigationService.Navigate(new Uri("/Views/HomePage.xaml", UriKind.Relative));

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Navigation – WP8.1rootFrame.Navigate(typeof(HomePage), e.Arguments);

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WP8.1 Silverlight Same Page and Frame Navigation Model

as 8.0

Fast App Resume is enabled by default

Apps can opt into being suspended on BackSystem.Windows.Navigation.NavigationService.PauseOnBack

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WP8.1 XAML apps Different back button behaviour

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DEMOXAML apps Back button

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Sharing Share data with other apps Receive shared data

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DEMOSharing

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Old world

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New world

Universal apps Share code and even views

between WP8.1 and Win8.1 Can only use WP8.1 Runtime Use #if to differentiate platforms

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Universal appsWhat works Live tiles Toasts Background tasks XAML (sort of)

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Universal appsWhat doesn’t work Alarms Reminders Lens GPS background Lockscreen picture Camera chooser XAML (sort of)

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DEMOUniversal apps

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Universal apps - resources• Shared Project Reference Manager

http://bit.ly/1ibqSm1• Universal app samples

http://bit.ly/PpeeJ5• MSDN

http://bit.ly/1nDQAVA• XCC

http://xcc.codeplex.com/13/04/2023

QUESTIONS?Windows Phone 8.1

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THANK YOU!@NicoVermeir

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