Windows Phone Guide for Android Application Developers Table of Content

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Windows Phone Platform for Android Application Developers 5

The Developer Tools 6

Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone, an IDE for developers 6

Blend for Visual Studio 2012, a User Interface design tool for designers 6

A Windows Phone emulator to test and debug applications 6

Windows Phone Architecture 7

Comparing the Programming Stack of Windows Phone with the Android Stack 8

1.Portability: This is useful if you are targeting multiple platforms you can write core login in C++. 12

2.Direct3D: If you want to use Direct3D esp. to develop games, you must use C++. 12

3.Performance: For some scenarios, you may achieve higher performance using native code. 12

Summary 18

Related Resources 19

1.Overview of the Windows Phone Application Platform 19

2.Windows Phone team blog. 19

3.Windows Phone Programming: Programming guide and reference documents. 19

4.Visual C# 19

5.XAML for Windows Phone 19

Chapter 2: User Interface Guidelines for the Windows Phone 20

Designing the Application Interface 21

Application User Interface Design 25

Comparing Windows Phone and Android Navigation 35

Windows Phone Frame and Page Structure 36

Application Templates 39

Summary 40

Related Resources 41

Windows Phone User Interface Guidelines 41

Windows Phone SDK ToolsWindows Phone toolkit on Codeplex 41

App page model for Windows Phone 41

In-app navigations for Windows Phone 41

Chapter 3: An introduction to Windows Phone Developer and Designer Tools 42

A Comparison of Android and Windows Phone Tools 43

Visual Studio is not only a powerful IDE but it can also be extended in a variety of ways. It allows the ability to add macros, options, menus and toolbar commands, visualizers and other tools. In addition, Visual Studio supports NuGet, a package manager, to add, remove and manage libraries and tools in Visual Studio and the .NET Framework.Windows Phone tools l 45

Tool for coding 46

Tools for designing 49

Building Application 60

Debugging 62

Summary 67

Chapter 4: An Introduction to C# programming for Java developers 68

Managed Programming 69

A Comparison between C# and Java Features 70

Key features compared 99

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Chapter 5: Application Lifecycle Differences Between Windows Phone and Android 114

Android and Windows Phone Application Lifecycle 115

Programming for application States and navigation 119

Windows Phone Application LifeCycle 121

Comparing Life-cycle Methods 124

Windows Phone 8 Application LifeCycle and Tombstoning Example 126

Summary 135

Related Resources 136

Chapter 6: Storage on Windows Phone 137

1.Application settings 137

2.Files and folders 137

3.Database 137

IsolateStorageSettings lets you save any serializable object to the settings store. Managing the IsolatedStorage Space 145

Sharing Data Between Applications 146

Content producers 149

Summary 151

Related Resources 152

Chapter 7: XML Support in Windows Phone and Android 153

Traversing XML 163

Summary 166

Related Resources 167

Appendix A: Migration Sample 168

In-App Advertisements 169

1.Add the Microsoft AdControl to your application. Set a couple of properties in the AdControl to identify your app and ad location, and start showing ads in your application. 175

2.Join Windows Phone Dev Center which will allow you to publish your applications to Windows Phone Store. 175

3.Sign up on the Microsoft pubCenter portal and register your application. Register your application, create an ad unit with ad unit and use it with the AdControl. 175

Download the In-App Advertisements Android Sample 183

Advertising in apps for Windows Phone 183

Make Money with the Microsoft Ad Control 183

Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 183

API Documentation for Windows Phone Ad SDK on MSDN 183

Appendix B: Using the API Mapping Tool 184

What’s the API Mapping tool 185

How to use the tool 186

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Updated all sections to include most recent data. 187

Added additional reference links. 187

Fixed formatting issues. 187