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Market your Windows 8 and iOS apps easily on your site

So you have an app for Windows 8 or maybe even an app for iOS. How great would it be if someone was searching inside of IE on Windows 8 or Safari on iOS that when they got to your website it had an option to download and install it easily. They wouldn’t have to search your site for a button, or search the store, with 1 click they are taken directly to the download and install page. Well you can, and it is really easy. To me it is very odd that a lot of sites just don’t do this already. For in…

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App releases and what happens to those developers

Development cycles are extremely interesting, you have an idea and a core problem that you are out to solve. Early on in development you will study other apps, core user interface designs, and really map out your application. After this it is time to code and get serious. The following months you set a core foundation that you will build the apps off of, core user interface principles you want to implement, and of course start knocking features off one at a time. Fast forward a few months, y…

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Windows 8 Live Tile Branding

After implementing live tiles I found something extremely interesting. When live tiles are active you never really get to go back to your standard tile with your app logo and name. Switching from wide to standard will flash you logo quickly, but after that it is gone. This seems just fine, but demoing my app to a few people and showing them live tiles they brought up a point… “How do I know which tile is the app?” From a developer point of view I never really thought of this because it is sho…

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Windows 8 Live Tiles Done Right

It is a bit surprising to that one of the best features of Windows 8 isn’t extremely well documented on how to implement it. Now there are plenty of tutorials on implementing live tiles, however what if you want to update them in the background, or maybe every so often. Do you need to require permissions? Do you need to register events? Who knows!?!?! Well there is probably a document somewhere, but I couldn’t find it. So what do you need to do? In this tutorial I am going to go through how I…

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Inspired by @TweedleApp

If you don’t know about Tweedle [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.handlerexploit.tweedle] and you are on Twitter and Android you should probably download it. It is a fantastic twitter client with focus on core Android design which is clean and beautiful. It is also developer by an awesome developer, Mr. Daniel Huckaby [https://twitter.com/HandlerExploit]. I have been using it nearly since day one and he keeps updating it with great features and enhancements. A while ago he r…

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Fun with Windows 8 DataItemTemplates

So you are probably using GridViews and ListViews all over the place. In some instances you will most likely even have a situation where you you have a DataSource with a few DataGroups. Each DataGroup might actually be all different or it might even have different items in its list. If you have a nice base class such as StandardDataItem then this will work just fine. So here is where the fun comes in because usually each DataItem is going to have a different DataTemplate. This is where DataItem…

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Market your Windows 8 and iOS apps easily on your site

App releases and what happens to those developers

Windows 8 Live Tile Branding

Windows 8 Live Tiles Done Right

Inspired by @TweedleApp

Fun with Windows 8 DataItemTemplates

James Montemagno

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