Universal Apps

UNIVERSAL APPSMohamed Emam

MSP, Windows and Windows Phone Developer@mohamedemam0

AGENDA

• Overview

• UI Controls

• Page Navigation

• Data Binding

OVERVIEW

• Write Once, Deploy To All The Windows

• Buy Once For All Of Your Windows

• Universal Apps enable building applications on different converged platforms

• Converged platforms use a single Windows Runtime: Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 (future: Xbox, …)

• Converged developer platform, converged App model

UNIVERSAL APP

WHY UNIVERSAL APPS?

• Share up to 90% of the code

• Shared in-app purchases

• Unified ad-units for Windows Phone and Windows apps

• Shared revenue model

Windows Windows Phone

Classes Structs Interfaces

Windows 8.1 SDK 566 119 59

Windows Phone 8.1 SDK 624 131 57

+58 +12 -2

WINDOWS.UI.XAML.*

XAML: WHAT IS COMMON?

• Common Controls (Button, Textbox, …)

• Optimized Controls (DatePicker, TimePicker, …)

• Signature Controls (device specific, Hub, Pivot,…)

CONVERGED CONTROLSwhat’s it really mean?

80% exact same XAML 20% custom

Common SignatureOptimized

DatePicker

TimePickerCommandBar

Button

CheckBox

RadioButton

ProgressBar

Slider

ToggleSwitch Hub

PivotListViewGridViewAppBarSysTray

CODE REUSE

•Shared Projects (Share source code between projects of universal, Allow platform specific code using #if or partial class)

•PCL (Share binary library between universal apps, compile once,

deploy on different platforms)

UI CONTROLS

• Button

• Grid

• Appbar

• Stackpanel

• Gridview

• Textbox

• Button > Flyout > Grid > Button

• Flipview

• Datepicker

• Combobox

• Radio Buttons/Check Box

UI CONTROLS

DEMO

PAGE NAVIGATION

• Navigate to a page.

• Navigate with a parameter.

• Navigate to URI

PAGE NAVIGATION

DEMO

DATA BINDING

• One Way

• Two Way

DATA BINDING

DEMO

SUMMARY

• Overview

• UI Controls

• DEMO

• Page Navigation

• DEMO

• Data Binding

• DEMO

TIME TO GET ANSWERED

Q&A

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Common Control

Optimized Control