My slidedeck for the MSDN webcast on Discovering the WP8 SDK

1. Exploring the WP8 SDK
@NicoVermeir

2. Who am I?
www.spikie.be
Nico_vermeir
@NicoVermeir
@hotmail.com

3. Agenda
• What’s new in the Windows Phone 8 SDK
• Installing the SDK
• System requirements
• Emulator
• Templates
• Debugging
• Tiles
• Lockscreen
• Resolutions
• Wallet
• Lenses
• Speech
• Location

4. What’s new?
• LongListSelector
• Pivot & panorama removed from SDK, now in ROM
• Maps integrated in the SDK
• Microsoft.Phone.Maps
• Microsoft.Phone.Maps.Controls
• Microsoft.Phone.Maps.Services
• Lockscreen
• Wallet
• In-app purchases
• Proximity
• Bluetooth
• DataSense

5. What’s new?
• Simulation Dashboard
• Low bandwidth connection or poor signal
• An interruption such as reminder
• Lock screen
• Launchers
• SaveAppointmentTask
• MapDownloaderTask
• MapsTask
• MapsDirectionstask

6. System
RequirementsMEMBERS

7. System Requirements - SDK
• Windows 8 64-bit
• 6.5 GB free disk space
• 4 GB RAM
• 64-bit CPU

8. System Requirements - Emulator
• Windows 8 Pro or higher
• Second Level Address Translation
• EPT (Intel, Extended Page Table)
• RVI (AMD, Rapid Virtualization Indexing)
• Check your CPU with CoreInfo (http://bit.ly/1ojtfP)

9. CoreInfo
• CoreInfo.exe -v

10. Second Level Address Translation
• Used by Hyper-V
• Helps translating guest physical addresses to host physical addresses

11. Emulator
• 4 images, one for each resolution
• Complete OS
• Powered by Hyper-V
• Separate device on network

12. Demo
Windows Phone 8 Emulator

13. Templates
• Windows Phone App
• Windows Phone Databound App
• Windows Phone Panorama App
• Windows Phone Pivot App
• Windows Phone XAML and D3D App
• Windows Phone HTML5 App

14. Debugging
• Debug managed or Native Code
• Even when launched from tile or notification

15. Demo
debugging

16. Tiles
• Three Templates
• Flip
• Iconic
• Cycle
• Three sizes
• Secondary tiles

17. Demo
Tiles

18. Lockscreen
• 5 apps on lockscreen, users decides which ones
• 30x30 icon
• Transparant, white
• Takes the count of the tile
• Needs to be set in WPAppManifest.xml

19. Demo
Lockscreen

20. Multi-resolution

21. Multi-resolution

22. Multi-resolution
• Apps scale automatically
• Default resolution is 800x480
• Build assets for highest resolution
• Resolution and scale can be checked from code

23. Demo
Multi-resolution

24. Wallet
• Collect coupons, credit cards, memberships, loyalty cards, and more
in one place.
• Manage the payment instruments that they use in the app and music
store.
• Link items in the Wallet to apps on their phone.
• Make contactless transactions, using Near-Field Communication
(NFC), in some markets.

25. Wallet

26. Demo
Wallet

27. Lenses
• Camera app
• Launched from the camera
• For example: Bing Vision

28. Lenses
• Set capabilities ID_CAP_ISV_CAMERA and ID_CAP_MEDIALIB_PHOTO
• Register lens extension
• When activated, will navigate to
/MainPage.xaml?Action=ViewfinderLaunch
• Intercept with UriMapper, send to lens page

29. Demo
Lenses

30. Speech
• Text to speech
• Speech to text
• Voice commands

31. Demo
Speech

32. Location
• New api (WP7 version still works as well)
• Background tracking
• Only one app
• GeoLocator keeps the app alive
• Drains battery

33. Demo
Location

34. Take aways
• SLAT needed for the emulator (coreinfo.exe)
• Windows 8 needed for the SDK
• Debug when launched from notification or secondary tile
• Simulation dashboard
• Templates for native code and HTML5
• Three tile templates, flip, iconic and cycle
• Apps can be on the lockscreen
• Apps scale automatically to one of three resolutions or two aspect ratios
• Wallet can be used for discounts, memberships and deals
• Lenses are camera apps
• Speech API provides TTS, STT and voice commands
• GeoLocator can track location from the background, only one app can do
this

35. Q&A