5. Windows 8 Quick Start
• Intend to make easy to have a view at
the apps;
• Is basically a collection of tiles
related to the different apps instaled
in the system;
• Allows to Group Apps;
• Give the user a view over all the
installed apps withouth have to click
on a menu;
6. Windows 8 Quick Start
• Immersive;
• Fast and Fluid;
• Touch Enabled;
• Integrated in the system;
• Consistent with the System;
7. Windows 8 Quick Start
• Apps are imersive, sometimes the
user feel the need to have this
content and at teh same type to have
a look at other contents…For that
Windows 8 offers a new way to have
the applications content crossed with
other apps.
8. Windows 8 Quick Start
Rules
• Snap is only for landscape positions;
• Screens width >=1366 px ;
• Snapped view is differnt from full
screen view;
• Snap can be in one off the edges Left
or Right;
9. Windows 8 Quick Start
• Content Sensitive;
• Conect apps to the system and other
apps;
• Represent the transversal options of
the system;
• Sharm options are based on
contracts;
10. Windows 8 Quick Start
• Apps are emersive
• User should are focus on the content
• Create a transversal expectation of
the user about where to find
functions;
• We can define a app bar as a
application Menu;
• A good pratice is to use the upper
part of the Bar to do navigation the
down part of the app bar to
navigation in content, or cross
content navigation;
• App bar provides app-specific actions;
11. Windows 8 Quick Start
• Presents and navigating large sets of related
data or content within a single view;
• Semantic Zoom uses two distinct modes of
classification (or zoom levels) for organizing and
presenting the content: one low-level (or
zoomed in) mode that is typically used to display
items in a flat, all-up structure and another,
high-level (or zoomed out) mode that displays
items in groups and enables a user to quickly
navigate and browse through the content.
• The Semantic Zoom interaction is performed
with the pinch and stretch gestures (moving the
fingers farther apart zooms in and moving them
closer together zooms out), or by holding the
Ctrl key down while scrolling the mouse scroll
wheel, or by holding the Ctrl key down (with the
Shift key, if no numeric keypad is available) and
pressing the plus (+) or minus (-) key.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465319.aspx
12. Windows 8 Quick Start
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14. Windows 8 Quick Start
windows support 2 kinds of different
interaction paradigm
• Desktop Apps : the usual kind of
applications we are used to in a
windows operation system
• Metro Style Apps: apps that follow the
patterns of Metro style principles
17. Windows 8 Quick Start
• Windows Core: correspond to the services of Windows;
• Windows runtime core: Is a Layer that exposes the Windows
services, definition of types exposure of interfaces, is the
core of the runtime;
• UI, Pickers, Controls; Media; XAML;Storage; Network;.. :
Some APIS that live on the top of windows runtime;
• Windows Metadata & Namespace: The runtime give us the
concept of metadata for types, what allow us to manage and
get in a natural way the runtime notions of types.
• Web Host: A host for Web applications;
• Runtime Broker: is a separate process that handles the
security permission of separated processes like sensors or
cameras;
• Language projection: A mechanism that allows the windows
runtime API be exposed in a different way according to the
language in usage;
• Language support: Is the implementation of the technologies
to allow the support of windows runtime over the different
languages (WINJS, CLR )
20. Windows 8 Quick Start
HTML/CSS javascript
Struture - Markup combined with
markup controls our Win JS Controls Win RT
Presentation – CSS for styling
Behaviour – WinJs or for example
class Lybraries in other WIN RT
technologies
23. Windows 8 Quick Start
Suspended:
Ocurs when a new APP is launch or activated (in
about 5 s)
What to do in a 5 s:
Oportunity Save state
When low memory resources some suspended apps can be
terminated
No notification when the Terminate app happens
33. Windows 8 Quick Start
Suspended:
Ocurs when a new APP is launch or activated (in
about 5 s)
What to do in a 5 s:
Oportunity Save state
When low memory resources some suspended apps can be
terminated
No notification when the Terminate app happens
39. Windows 8 Quick Start
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/ - Dev team Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2012/06
/04/free-ebook-programming-windows-8-apps-with-html-
css-and-javascript-first-preview.aspx - HTML5 win 8 Book
http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/10682412/1769183635/nam
e/Metro+Revealed-
Building+Windows+8+apps+with+HTML5+and+JavaScript.pdf
- book
http://johnpapa.net/fundamentals-of-windows-8-xaml-c-
metro-style-apps- Slides
Create Metro style apps quickly with built-in controls
Make great Metro style apps that are touch-optimized using
HTML5 Video
Bring apps to life with Metro style animations in HTML5
Using tiles and notifications Video
Building beautiful and interactive apps with HTML5 & CSS3
Designing Metro style apps using CSS3 Video
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