Windows Phone 8 in Action

Windows Phone 8 represents a major shift in Microsoft's mobile operating system strategy and in the way mobile applications are conceived, developed and sold. Windows Phone 8 in action shows you how to create games and mobile applications using Visual Studio and Windows Phone SDK. XAML allows great visual effects to be combined with the simplicity of the C# language. XAML for Windows Phone has been enriched with navigation services and a new execution model to better satisfy mobile requirements.

Windows Phone 8 in Action
covers the Windows Phone Runtime and .NET APIs used to work with a phone's sensors and hardware--the accelerometer, camera, gyroscope, GPS, and microphone. You will to learn write code to dial the phone, write emails, send text messages and recognize speech. Web services are discussed and you will build applications that use location and push notification services. After reading the book, you will be able to design and write XAML applications, embedding a browser, playing media files, running cool animations and dealing with the operating system execution model.