WP7 Statistics & Frameworks

By @JustinAngel, baynetug.org

What is this talk about? Windows Phone 7 Marketplace

Stats Prerequisites: WP7 & Silverlight Research Methodology Interesting Statistics Quick Overview Top frameworks Based on @

JustinAngel.net/WindowsPhone7MarketplaceStatistics

Research Methodology Downloaded WP7 Marketplace on

8/15 Marketplace APIs described

publicly Unzipped the downloaded XAPs Asked some questions Got answers

Stat #0: How many apps?

Found 24,505 apps

Stat #1: Obfuscation

14.5% of apps are obfuscated

Stat #2: Silverlight, XNA

Stat #3: C#, VB.Net or F#

Stat #4: Cloned apps

Stat #4: Cloned apps

Stat #4: Cloned Apps

Common issue in all application stores

There are reasons to ship cloned apps

Lite / Full / Trial / Free versions Books / Magazines DIY Apps etc

Stat #5: All Publishers

percentage

Stat #5: Top Publishers

percentage

Stat #6: Privileges

Stat #7: Frameworks

What are real devs using in real apps?

Adoption is a good indicator of quality, applicability & usability.

Cut the FUD on frameworks. 25 Lightening overviews. +30 bullet points.

Fx #1: WP7 Controls SDK

Microsoft.Phone.Controls.dll is used 14,848 apps.

Contains Pivot and Panorama controls.

Fx #2: Silverlight Toolkit

Microsoft’s Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 is used by 11,169 apps.

AutoCompleteBox ContextMenu DatePicker ExpanderView GestureService  HubTile

ListPicker LockablePivot LoopingSelector LongListSelector MultiselectList PhoneTextBox

Transitions TiltEffect TimePicker ToggleSwitch WrapPanel Performance-

ProgressBar

Fx #2: Silverlight Toolkit

Fx #3: Blend Behaviours

Microsoft Expression Blend Behaviours, Triggers & Actions are used by 6,010 apps.

Great for designers working with XAML. “XAML Extensions methods”. Added on other UI elements.

Fx #4: Microsoft Ads

Microsoft’s Advertising ADK for Windows Phone is used by 5,760 apps.

Monetize on apps using pubCenter.

Best of breed Ads WP7 UX, API, support and documentation.

Fx #5: Bing Maps WP7

Microsoft’s Bing Maps SDK for Windows Phone 7 is used by 2,235 apps.

Great UX, great API, great docs. Requires Bing Maps key.

Fx #6: LazyListBox

Mirosoft’s Peter Torr LazyListbox is used by 1,364 apps.

WP7 NoDo had terrible ListBox performance.

LazyListBox shows ItemTemplate while LoadedItemTemplate is loading.

ItemTemplate LoadedItemTemplate

Fx #7: Html Agility Pack

Simon Mourier’s HTML Agility Pack is used by 1,331 apps.

Allows to scrape, scan and fix HTML pages with XPath and Linq queries.

Handles malformed HTML. Generates HTML from DOM tree.

Fx #8: MVVM Light Toolkit

Laurent Bugnion’s MVVM Light Toolkit is used by 1,320 apps.

Very basic toolkit supporting MVVM. Messenger – Loosely coupled event

bus. EventToCommand – Blend Behaviour

that fires ICommands on events. RelayCommand – Simple

ICommand.

Fx #9: Flurry Analytics

Flurry Analytics for Windows Phone 7 is used by 1,283 apps.

Requires Flurry account. Really big with Android and

iPhone apps analytics. Organizations with existing mobile apps love Flurry.

Fx #10: JSON.net

James NewtonJSON.net is used by 1,082 apps.

Linq to JSON. JSON Serializer

and JSON Deserializer. WCF JSON serializer is incredibly

slow and is considered a worst practice.

Fx #11: Coding 4fun tools

Microsoft’s Clint Rutkas's Coding4Fun Tools is used by 800 apps. About Prompt

Color Hexagon Color Picker Color Slider Input Prompt Message Prompt Memory Counter Password Prompt

Progress Overlay Round Button Round Toggle Super Slider TimeSpan Picker Toast Prompt Value Converters Binding Helpers

Fx #11: Coding 4fun tools

Fx #12: Hammock

Daniel Crenna’s Hammock is used by 741 apps.

REST Requests framework supporting: Async, Retry, Caching, Authentication, Tracing, Serialization and Validation.

Fx #13: Phone Perf Helpers

David Anson’s Phone Performance Helpers are used by 705 apps.

WP7 NoDo had terrible Listbox Perf.

DeferredLoadListBox and LowProfileImageLoader are great for ListBoxes with Images.

Fx #14: WCF RSS

System.ServiceModel.Syndication.dll is being used by 670 apps.

Parses (or generates) RSS and ATOM into strongly-typed classes and support LINQ querying.

Fx #15: SSME

Microsoft’s Smooth Streaming Media Element is used by 604 apps.

Using SSME with IIS Smooth Streaming provides video adaptive streaming over HTTP.

Contains heuristics to change bitrates based on network conditions and client properties.

Fx #16: Facebook C# SDK

Jim Zimmerman and Microsoft’s Nathan Totten’s Facebook C# SDK is used by 603 apps.

Fully featured framework to access Facebook data, OAuth and actions.

Fx #17: Telerik WP7 SDK Telerik Windows Phone 7 SDK is

used by 557 apps. Commercial controls SDK.

Animations ApplicationFrame BusyIndicator BulletGraph Calendar Chart DataBoundListBox DatePicker DateSelector

DockPanel Gauge JumpList LayoutTransform ListPicker LoopingList MessageBox NumericUpDown PickerBox

TimePicker TimeSelector TransitionControl UniformGrid Window WrapPanel

Fx #17: Telerik WP7 SDK

Fx #18: Google AdMob

Google AdMob ADK for Windows Phone 7 is used by 542 apps.

Fx #19: ImageTools

Sebastian Stehle’s ImageTools is used by 490 apps.

Loads and saves PNG, JPEG, BMP & GIF.

Applies Effects (Rotate, Flip) and filters (Sepia, Invert, GreyScale, Contrast, Brightness and Blur).

Supports reading Barcodes.

Fx #20: Silverlight Toolkit Microsoft’s Silverlight Toolkit for

Desktop is used by 484 apps. Not supported on WP7.

Fx #21: #ziplib

SharpDevelop’s #ziplib is used by 432 apps.

Supports ZIP, FastZip, TAR and GZip file extraction and creation.

FX #22: MEF

Microsoft’s Managed Extensibility Frameworks is used by 398 apps.

An IoC framework that doesn’t like to be called an IoC framework.

Fx #23: Analytics Framework

Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework by Michael Scherotter is used by 373 apps.

Supports Google Analytics, WebTrends and 5 additional analytics providers.

Supported by UI controls and Blend.

Fx #24: Tombstone Helper

Matt Lacey’s Tombstone Helper Stores state for TextBox,

PasswordBox, CheckBox, RadioButton, Slider, ListBox, and ScrollViewer with a x:Name property .

Fx #25: Sterling OODB

Jeremy Likness’s Sterling Object Oriented Database is used by 294 apps.

Client-side OODB storing in IsoStore. Fast and compact.

Fx #26 – Fx #29

Microsoft’s XML Serialization. Alan Mendelevich’s AdDuplex

SDK: WP7-only Ads library Noah Hart’s C#-SQLite on WP7. Davide Zordan, Laurent Bugnion

and David Kelley’s WP7 MultiTouch Blend behaviours.

Fx #30 – Fx #34

José Ángel’s Widget Library for WP7: Enables WP7 HTML apps.

Microsoft’s Media Platform Player Framework for WP7: Fully-featured Video player.

Daniel Crenna’s TweetSharp: Twitter framework for WP7.

Microsoft’s WCF Data Services: Consume OData services.

FX #35 – Fx #39

John Sheehan’s RestSharp: REST API.

René Schulte’s WriteableBitmapEx: GDI+ drawing functionality.

Microsoft’s Rx (Reactive eXtensions): Linq to Events state machine.

Manfred Dalmeijer’s aldarIT SuperAds: Multiple Ad-Network Silverlight Control for Windows Phone 7.

Fx #40 – Fx #45:

Sergey Barskiy’s Windows Phone 7 Database: RDBMS in WP7 IsoStore.

Rob Eisenberg’s Calburn.Micro: Fully featured WP7 MVVM Framework.

Microsoft’s Windows Phone Shake Gestures Library.

Rgelb’s adMob for Windows Phone 7.

Microsoft P&P’s Prism.

Fx #46 – Fx #49

Karl Seguin’s Mogade Windows Phone: Server-side game services.

Simon McKenzie’s ExifLib: Reads Camera EXIF Data.

Jeff Brand’s SlickThought WP7 Trial Manager: Enhanced Trial Logic.

amCharts Quick Charts for Windows Phone 7.

Fx #50 – Fx #54

Shawn Wildermuth’s PhoneyTools: WP7 Helper classes.

Romeo Dumitrescu’s Windows Phone 7 Isolated Storage Explorer.

Jeff Weber and Ian Qvist’s Farseer Physics Engine.

MobFox Windows Phone 7 Ads SDK. Damian Karzon’s DropNet DropBox

C# API.

Fx #55

Pawel Idzikowski’s sharpSerializer: open source XML and binary serializer.

Thank You!

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