1. Windows Phone 8 is around the corner
What now?
October 23st , 2012
Catalin Gheorghiu

2. (The) Agenda
• The long story
• The short story
• The Demo(s)
• The Application lifecycle (pictures)
• The Demo(s)
• The Q&A

3. The long story

4. Windows Phone 7
• 7.0.7004 initial version of the Windows Phone 7
OS
• 7.0.7008 improve update process for future
update
• 7.0.7390 "NoDo" added CDMA support, Copy
and Paste, fast application startup, and deeper
Facebook Integration

5. Windows Phone 7
• 7.0.7392 revoke of fraudulent certificates
• 7.0.7403 intermediate update required

6. Windows Phone 7.5 (7.1)
• Third-party application multi-tasking and fast
application switching.
• Support for background tasks and
services/agents.
• Expanded live tiles that can be updated without
network connection and can have two sides
which flip periodically.

7. Windows Phone 7.5 (7.1)
• App Connect: third-party applications can
integrate with Bing search, have multiple live
tiles, and can have push notifications that link
deep ("Deep Toast") into various parts of the
application directly.
• Silverlight + XNA support in the same application
screen.

8. Windows Phone 7.5 (7.1)
• Optional 32 bit color support for Silverlight
applications with hardware dithering.
• Silverlight 4 support.
• Raw camera feed access for third-party
applications.
• New sensor API combines compass, gyroscope,
and accelerometer.

9. Windows Phone 7.5 (7.1)
• Improved Listbox control with better scrolling
performance.
• Improved WebBrowser control with IE9 rendering
engine and system-wide cookies access.
• Clipboard API.

10. Windows Phone 7.1.1
• Support for 256 MB devices

11. Windows Phone 7.8
• New start screen

12. Windows Phone 8 *
• Native development in C++. Thanks to
WinPRT, Windows Phone 8 is able to
support a significant subset of the
Windows 8 SDK libraries, and API sets.
• Mixed-mode app development. Hybrid app
development is an attractive choice for
developers who would like to port an
existing C++ app, prefer coding in C++, or
would like to use a Direct3D surface in
their app.
* Based on http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2012/07/26/windows-phone-8-
application-platform-detailed/

13. Windows Phone 8
• HTML app development options. Unfortunately
for HTML developers, HTML-based phone apps
are not a supported app model in Windows
Phone 8 there is no direct JavaScript access to
phone APIs because JavaScript projections are
not available in WinPRT.

14. Windows Phone 8
• Feature upgrades
– VOIP
– Multiple resolutions
• Different screen resolutions are supported in Windows Phone
8 Developer Preview: WVGA, WXGA, and 720p.
– Marketplace enhancements
• In-App Purchasing
• The “wallet,”.
– Near-field proximity functionality

15. Windows Phone 8
– Removable SD cards
• hot-swappable SD cards, read-only API access to user
content.
– New camera capability and lens apps
• Camera parameter configuration, such as ISO speed and
exposure.
• Real-time access to the phone’s video stream.
• Lenses, which are special camera apps that can provide
enhanced camera functionality such as effects, filters, and
computational photography.
• Multiframe capture for creating new types of camera
experiences and imagery.

16. Windows Phone 8
– Line-of-business apps
• The additions of NTLM authentication
• always-on secure boot capabilities
• 128-bit BitLocker®
– Speech capability
• robust speech API for speech recognition and synthesis.
– Bluetooth stack
• RFCOMM protocol.

17. Windows Phone 8
– App-to-app communication APIs
• apps can use an API call to launch other apps, and associate
themselves as the default handlers for certain file types.
– Networking enhancements
• support for IPv6,
• listener sockets
• more granular information about connected endpoints.

18. Windows Phone 8
– New data APIs
• File I/O via a WinPRT API, enabling read-only access to the
user data in the SD card slot.
• Native Win32 storage APIs.
– Search extensibility

19. Windows Phone 8
– Nokia maps
• Cartography
– Media library API
• API to add and delete media, including music, pictures, and
audio.

20. Windows Phone 8
– XAML upgrades
• Toolkit-only controls such as LongListSelector, and SDK-only
controls such as Panorama and Pivot, are being moved in-
ROM for better performance, appearance, and upgradability.
• Updated text rendering and font control
• New launchers and choosers.
• Emoji support.
• Auto-scaling to handle multiple resolutions

21. The short story

22. WP 7.0
• Copy paste
• Tombstone model

23. WP 7.1
• IE 9
• SQL Compact
• Dormant
• Background tasks
• New sensor API
• Toast notifications
• Copy paste API

24. WP 7.1.1
• 256 MB devices
• Reminders

25. WP 7.8
• New start screen

26. WP 8
• New start screen
• Win NT Core/DirectX/NTFS/HAL
• Bluetooth
• Multicore
• More sizes and resolutions
• IE 10
• SQL Lite
• W8 app compatibility??!
• Compile in the cloud
• Native development
• Private marketplace
• SD

27. Demo(s)
• Best text input experience
• Use GPS
• Save info in database
• Background task that uses GPS and database
• Toast notification
• Reminders

28. Application Lifecycle

29. WP7 Application
Lifecycle
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff817008(v=vs.92).aspx

30. WP7 Application Lifecycle

31. Application Lifecycle Windows
Phone 7
<Application.ApplicationLifetimeObjects>
<shell:PhoneApplicationService
Launching="Application_Launching"
Closing="Application_Closing"
Activated="Application_Activated“
Deactivated="Application_Deactivated"/>
</Application.ApplicationLifetimeObjects>

32. Windows 8 Application Lifecycle

33. Windows Application Lifecycle

34. Application Lifecycle Windows 8
• OnLaunched: it is called every time the
application is activated
• Suspending: This event may be subscribed to
get notified about the suspension of the
application.
• Resuming: The resuming event is raised only
when the application is reactivated after being
suspended.
• OnActivated: This event is raised when the
application is not activated normally.

35. Demo(s)

37. Thank you for your
attention.
Contact:
•My Blog
http://ronua.ro/CS/blogs/catalin/default.aspx
•My Email catalin.gheorghiu@ronua.ro

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Open Source
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exploration of
open source
engagements
http://www.microsoft.com
/openness
Port25
blogs from the
platform community
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http://Port25.technet.com
Codeplex
resources for
developers and
consumers of open
source projects
http://www.codeplex.com
Interoperability
Bridges
technical collaborative
works
http://www.interoperabilit
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Open Up
cross-Industry
Interoperability and
Standards activities
http://www.microsoft.com
/interop/openup
Shared Source
portal for
Programmatically
sharing code
http://www.microsoft.com
/sharedsource
OData
open source starter kit
for Internet publishing
of Government datasets
using the Open Data
http://ogdisdk.cloudapp.ne
t
Open Spec
protocols, file formats,
standards, technical
Specifications
http://www.microsoft.c
om/openspecific
ations
BizSpark
Program for Start-Up
companies from both
commercial and open
source backgrounds
http://www.microsoft.com
/bizspark
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