Windows Phone 8.1 Development for Absolute Beginners

Bob Tabor delivers this 9+ hour series on Windows Phone 8.1 Development for Absolute Beginners. You’ll learn by doing as you build five apps, covering a range of scenarios, from media playback to hosted HTML to accessing geolocation data and mapping to extending your Windows Phone app to become a universal Windows / Windows Phone app.

Book Description

Topics included: Writing your First Windows Phone 8.1 App • Introduction to XAML • Understanding XAML Layout and Events • Overview of the Common XAML Controls • Themes and Styles XAML • Understanding the Navigation Model • Working with the packageappxmanifest • Tip Calculator • Tip Calculator as a Universal App • Working with the Windows Phone 8.1 Emulator • Understanding the App’s Lifecycle and Managing State • Working with the Web View App Template • Whack-a-Bob App • Understanding the Hub App Template Overview and Navigation • Understanding the Hub App Template’s Sample Data Model • Understanding Data Binding, Data Sources and Data Contexts • Understanding MVVMObservableCollection and INotifyPropertyChanged • Understanding async and Awaitable Tasks • Playing Video and Audio in a MediaElement Control • I Love Cupcakes App • Storing and Retrieving Serialized Data • Working with the Command Bar • Binding to Commands and CommandParameters • Advanced Binding with Value Converters • The Daily Rituals App • Working with the Map Control and the Geolocation and GeoPosition Classes • Working with Animations in XAML • The Map Notes App.

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