101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume 1: Developing Apps 1-50

Description

Full Color

INCLUDES COMPLETE CODE AND ASSETS FOR EACH APP IN THIS VOLUME!

Got a great idea for an app? There's a chapter for that!

Calling all developers: Windows Phone 7 is starting to gain traction, and the opportunity is yours to sell the next killer app! 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps is a book series like no other - best-selling author and Microsoft developer Adam Nathan walks you through the process of building 101 real, robust, diverse, and marketplace-certified Silverlight applications. You not only get online access to the full source code and related assets, but the book is chock full of tips, warnings, and advice that can only come from Adam's experience of writing so many complete applications and selling them in the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Imagine how long it would take you to develop and test 50 apps and how much you would learn from the experience. Rather than spending all that time starting from scratch, use this book to hit the ground running! Whether you simply make cosmetic changes to apps in this book (for example, creating kid-themed versions), repurpose apps (such as building a mortgage calculator based on Chapter 10's tip calculator), or build something completely unique, this book can greatly accelerate your development time and help you create high-quality apps. Sell your apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace and make this book pay for itself!

Volume I contains the first 50 apps and covers the following:

* Everything you need to know about Silverlight
* Fully exploiting phone features such as the application bar, hardware/software keyboards, multi-touch, accelerometer, microphone, and more
* Using rich controls such as pivots, panoramas, and controls in free toolkits, such as date/time pickers, toggle switches, charts, and graphs
* Building your own custom controls, including popular ones missing from the platform, such as a checkable list box, multi-select picker box, and color picker
* Broadly applicable pages, such as a photo-cropping page and accelerometer-calibration page
* How to make your app look and feel like a first-party app
* Practical tips on a wide range of topics, even acquiring and creating sound effects, using custom fonts, and creating icons

CONTENTS:

Introduction 1

Part I: Getting Started

Chapter 1: Tally 17

The Application Manifest

Capabilities

Icons

Splash Screen

XML Namespaces

Status Bar

Phone Theme Resources

Naming XAML-Defined Elements

Button

Chapter 2: Flashlight 39

Application Bar

Timers

Brushes

Message Box

Chapter 3: In Case of Emergency 61

Orientation

On-Screen Keyboard

Hardware Keyboard

Text Box

Input Scopes

Scroll Viewer

Size Properties

Margins and Padding

Emulator-Specific Code

Chapter 4: Stopwatch 89

Grid

StackPanel

User Controls

Alignment

Progress Bar

Visibility

Orientation Lock

Chapter 5: Ruler 123

Canvas

Vector Graphics

Slider

Repeat Button

Hardware Back, Start, & Search

Buttons

Hit Testing

Content Controls

Chapter 6: Baby Sign Language 153

Page Navigation

Data Binding

Data Templates

List Box

Image

Resource Versus Content Build

Actions

Chapter 7: Date Diff 185

Silverlight for Windows Phone

Toolkit

Date Picker

Chapter 8: Vibration Composer 191

Vibration

Wrap Panel

Running While the Screen is

Locked

Getting Coordinates of an

Element

The Tag Property

Line Breaks

Chapter 9: Fake Call 207

Resources

Styles

Time Picker

Text Line Height

Disabling Automatic Screen Lock

Chapter 10: Tip Calculator 235

Application Lifecycle

Control Templates

Routed Events

Theme Detection

Toggle Button, Radio Button,

& Check Box Controls

List Box Items

Data Binding to a Named Element

Chapter 11: XAML Editor 271

Dynamic XAML

Popup

TextBox Manipulation

Background Worker

Copy & Paste

Part II: Transforms & Animations

Chapter 12: Silly Eye 301

Animation

Event Triggers

Named Resources

Settings Page

Color Picker

Clipping

Chapter 13: Metronome 327

2D Transforms

Animating Rotation

Animation Completed Event

Frame Rate Counter

Chapter 14: Love Meter 347

Keyframe Animations

Animating Scale

Checking Storyboard Status

Chapter 15: Mood Ring 361

Color Animations

Property Paths

Gradient Brushes

Object Animations

Point Animations

Drop Shadows

Chapter 16: Lottery Numbers Picker 377

Sharing Animations

Creating Animations in C#

Looping Selector

Chapter 17: Pick a Card Magic Trick 395

3D Transforms

Opacity Masks

Image Brush

One-Time Actions

Chapter 18: Cocktails 413

Quick Jump Grid

Dependency Properties

URL Encoding & Decoding

Storyboards as Timers

Indeterminate Progress Bars

Long List Selector

Chapter 19: Animation Lab 441

Custom Controls

Visual State Manager

Bitmap Caching

Tilt Effect

Part III: Storing & Retrieving Local Data

Chapter 20: Alarm Clock 463

Isolated Storage

Settings

Settings Page Guidelines

Toggle Switch

Using Custom Fonts

Runs

Chapter 21: Passwords & Secrets 493

Encryption & Decryption

Password Box

Value Converters

DateTimeOffset

Observable Collections

INotifyPropertyChanged

Chapter 22: Notepad 527

Reading & Writing Files

Chapter 23: Baby Milestones 545

Reading & Writing Pictures

Serialization

Two-Way Data Binding

Chapter 24: Baby Name Eliminator 565

Local Databases

Shipping Data with Your App

Chapter 25: Book Reader 587

Pagination

List Picker

Stretching List Box Items

Part IV: Pivot, Panorama, Charts, & Graphs

Chapter 26: TODO List 611

Pivot

Context Menu

Data Contract Attributes

Chapter 27: Groceries 649

Panorama

Chapter 28: Alphabet Flashcards 675

Filmstrip-Style Swiping

Chapter 29: Weight Tracker 681

Charts & Graphs

Part V: Audio & Video

Chapter 30: Cowbell 711

Playing Sound Effects

Composition Target's Rendering

Event

Chapter 31: Trombone 719

Sound Manipulation

Sound Looping

SoundEffectInstance

Chapter 32: Local FM Radio 731

Radio Tuner

The

NetworkInterface.InterfaceType

Property

Chapter 33: Subservient Cat 743

Playing Video

MediaElement

Part VI: Microphone

Chapter 34: Bubble Blower 759

Sound Detection

Reversing a Slider

Chapter 35: Talking Parrot 775

Microphone Audio Playback

Chapter 36: Sound Recorder 797

Saving Audio Files

Playing Sound Backwards

Multi-Selection List Box

Part VII: Touch & Multi-Touch

Chapter 37: Reflex Test 827

The Touch.FrameReported Event

Touch Points

Chapter 38: Musical Robot 839

Multi-Touch

Tracking Individual Fingers

Chapter 39: Paint 847

Ink Presenter

Manual Serialization and

Deserialization

XmlSerializer

DataContractSerializer

DataContractJsonSerializer

Undo & Redo

Chapter 40: Darts 875

Gesture Listener

Manipulation Events

Flick Gesture

Direct Hit Testing

Chapter 41: Deep Zoom Viewer 897

Pinch & Stretch Zooming Gestures

Double-Tap Gesture

MultiScaleImage

Chapter 42: Jigsaw Puzzle 913

Drag Gesture

Image Cropping

WriteableBitmap

Taking Phone Screenshots

Chapter 43: Spin the Bottle! 945

Rotate Gesture

Simulating Inertia

Part VIII: Accelerometer Tricks

Chapter 44: Boxing Glove 951

Accelerometer Basics

Chapter 45: Coin Toss 965

Throwing Detection

Chapter 46: Noise Maker 981

Shaking Detection

Chapter 47: Moo Can 993

Turning-Over Detection

AccelerometerHelper

Data Smoothing

Accelerometer Calibration

Chapter 48: Level 1007

Determining the Phone's Angle

Chapter 49: Balance Test 1019

2D Motion

Chapter 50: Pedometer 1035

Analyzing Walking Motion

Part IX: Appendices

Appendix A: Lessons Index 1049

Appendix B: XAML Reference 1059

Appendix C: Theme Resources Reference 1073

Appendix D: Animation Easing Reference 1083

Appendix E: Geometry Reference 1089

Index 1097