Windows Phone 7 for IPhone Developers

✍ Scribed by Kevin Hoffman

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 330
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Bring Your iPhone Apps and Skills to Windows Phone 7–or Build Apps for Both Mobile Platforms at Once   If you’ve been developing for the competitive iPhone marketplace, this book will help you leverage your iOS skills on a fast-growing new platform: Windows Phone 7 (WP7). If you’re a .NET programmer, it will help you build advanced WP7 mobile solutions that reflect valuable lessons learned by iOS developers. If you’re a mobile development manager, it offers indispensable insights for planning cross-platform projects.   Kevin Hoffman guides you through the entire WP7 Software Development Kit (SDK), showing how it resembles Apple’s iOS SDK, where it differs, and how to build production-quality WP7 apps that sell. Step by step, you’ll master each technology you’ll need, including C#, Silverlight, and XAML. Every new concept is introduced along with all the tools and background needed to apply it.   Hoffman’s practical insights extend into every facet of WP7 development: building user interfaces; hardware and device services; WP7’s unique Application Tiles; Push Notifications; the Phone Execution Model, local storage, smart clients, Model-View-View Model (MVVM) design, security, social gaming, testing, debugging, deployment, and more. A pleasure to read and packed with realistic examples, this is the most useful WP7 development book you can find.   ·         Compare Apple’s Objective-C and Microsoft’s C#: “second cousins twice removed” ·         Build rich, compelling user interfaces based on Silverlight, XAML, and events ·         Move from Apple’s Xcode to Visual Studio 2010 and from Interface Builder to Expression Blend ·         Leverage hardware and device services, including the accelerometer, GPS, photos, contacts, e-mail, and SMS ·         Create dynamic application Tiles to appear on the Start screen ·         “Push” raw data notifications to running apps ·         Understand and use the WP7 phone execution model ·         Efficiently store and retrieve data on WP7 phones ·         Build “smart clients” that sync locally stored data with web services ·         Manage growing app complexity through “separation of concerns” and MVVM ·         Successfully deploy apps to the Marketplace

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents......Page 5
Who Are You and Why Should I Care?......Page 14
Why Should I Read This Book?......Page 15
What’s in This Book?......Page 16
The Origin of Objective-C......Page 22
The Origin of C#......Page 23
Core Syntax......Page 24
Method Calls and Message Passing......Page 27
Reference Counting and Object Ownership......Page 28
Garbage Collection......Page 29
Cleaning Up After Yourself—Object Finalization......Page 31
Why OOP?......Page 34
Building a Class......Page 35
Encapsulating Data......Page 36
Adding Behavior......Page 39
Inheritance......Page 41
Programming with Contracts......Page 45
Extending Other People’s Classes......Page 48
What Is Event-Driven Programming?......Page 52
Using the Delegate Pattern in Objective-C......Page 53
Using Events in C#......Page 55
Global Events and NSNotifications......Page 59
Review of the UIKit View System......Page 64
Displaying Graphics and Rendering in iOS......Page 65
Introduction to XAML and Silverlight......Page 66
The Two-Pass Mantra: Measure and Arrange......Page 68
Xcode and iOS Application Development......Page 72
Getting Started with Visual Studio 2010......Page 75
Introduction to Visual Studio 2010......Page 76
Overview of Apple’s Interface Builder......Page 82
Introduction to Expression Blend......Page 85
Blend Tutorial—Working with Visual States......Page 89
Using the Basic Controls......Page 96
Using Text Blocks......Page 97
Accepting User Input with TextBoxes......Page 99
Working with Buttons......Page 101
Accepting Other Forms of User Input......Page 104
Displaying Images......Page 106
Using a Basic List Box......Page 107
Performing Basic Animations......Page 110
Painting on Canvas......Page 113
Using the Grid Control......Page 114
Migrating from Navigation Bars......Page 118
Using the Silverlight Navigation System......Page 120
Spicing Up Navigation Events with Animation......Page 124
Using the Pivot Control......Page 128
Using a Panorama Application......Page 131
Using the Application Bar......Page 133
Review of Device Capabilities......Page 138
Using Launchers......Page 140
Using the Save Phone Number Task......Page 141
Using the Save Email Address Task......Page 142
Using the Search Task......Page 143
Launching the Media Player......Page 144
Sending a Text Message......Page 145
Using Choosers......Page 146
Using the Email Address Chooser Task......Page 147
Choosing or Capturing Photos on the Device......Page 148
Controlling Vibration......Page 149
Accessing a Radio Tuner......Page 150
Using the Accelerometer......Page 151
Using the GPS......Page 154
What Is a Tile?......Page 158
Creating Your First Tile......Page 160
Working with Tile Schedules......Page 161
Using Remote Background Images......Page 164
Review of Apple Push Notification Services (APNS)......Page 166
WP7 Push Notifications Overview......Page 168
Using Toast Notifications......Page 169
Using Raw Notifications......Page 175
Using Tile Notifications......Page 178
Multitasking on iOS 4......Page 182
Application Life Cycle Walkthrough......Page 184
Managing Application and Page State......Page 188
Core Data on the iPhone......Page 194
Reading and Writing Local Data with WP7......Page 197
Isolated Storage 101......Page 198
Building a Storage-Backed Databound Application......Page 199
Consuming RESTful Services......Page 210
Why LINQ to XML Is Your New Best Friend......Page 211
Consuming WCF Services......Page 217
16 Separating Your Concerns......Page 220
A Brief History of MVC......Page 221
Introduction to MVVM......Page 224
Working with MVVM Light for WP7......Page 225
Building a View Model......Page 226
Yes, But Will It Blend?......Page 231
Working with Commands......Page 233
Sending Messages with MVVM Light......Page 236
Look Ma, No Code-Behind!......Page 238
Using Service Providers......Page 240
The AutoMapper......Page 243
What Is Test-Driven Development?......Page 246
Red, Green, Refactor......Page 247
Mocks and Stubs......Page 248
Unit Testing iOS Applications......Page 250
Logic Testing......Page 251
Unit Testing Windows Phone 7 Applications......Page 252
Working with nUnit......Page 253
Working with the Silverlight Unit Test Framework......Page 254
Mocking and Stubbing......Page 259
Arrange, Act, Assert......Page 261
Refactor. Again.......Page 263
18 Building Connected Social Games......Page 266
Lobbies and Matchmakers......Page 267
Leaderboards and Achievements......Page 268
Turn-Based Game Play......Page 269
Achievements......Page 270
Networking API......Page 271
Lobbies and Matchmakers......Page 272
Leaderboards and Achievements......Page 274
Turn-Based Game Play......Page 276
Real-Time Multiplayer Gaming......Page 277
What Is a Secure Application?......Page 280
A Fool and His Money......Page 281
WP7 Secure by Default......Page 282
Protecting Data......Page 283
Protecting Intellectual Property......Page 288
Debugging and Tuning iOS Applications......Page 292
Debugging 101......Page 293
Using Breakpoints......Page 294
Logging and the Debug Class......Page 297
Using Static Analysis......Page 298
Introducing Zombie Apocalypse Trainer......Page 302
Registering and Deploying to Test Devices......Page 305
Prepping Your Application for Submission......Page 307
Submitting an App to the Marketplace......Page 309
Earning Money with the Mobile Advertising SDK......Page 313
A......Page 314
C......Page 315
D......Page 317
G......Page 318
I......Page 319
M......Page 320
N......Page 321
P......Page 322
S......Page 323
T......Page 324
W......Page 325
Y–Z......Page 326