This Demo is used for the purpose of my session at MSCommunity BiH 2014 conference in Sarajevo 19th September 2014. This is full demo that demonstrates main and advanced concepts of universal Windows apps. With universal app you can build an app for Windows and Windows Phone at the same time, and share code, user controls, styles, strings, and other assets between the two projects in Visual Studio. This reduces the time and expense associated with building and maintaining an app for each type of device.
This reduces the time and expense associated with building and maintaining an app for each type of device.
You can freely use this app as your start point when creating universal Windows application.
Link for the app on OneDrive is here:
Main concepts that you can find in the app are:
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Hub page (almost the same for Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 app)
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Storing data locally for offline use (using Newtonsoft.Json)
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Searching data in Windows app
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CommandBar
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Semantic Zoom in Windows app
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Visual State Manager – Snap View in Windows app
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Using charms in Windows app (About, Privacy page)
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Live Tile – Pin to Start
Author of this app is my friend Jovica Rikanović who created this app for our session at conference with title “Building universal Windows apps”.
If you want to successfully build this Demo app using Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 you need to update library reference for Newtonsoft.Json. Namely, when you download solution you’ll see that reference is not OK:
So, select Reference and choose Manage NuGet Packages…
And finally install Json.NET
You need to do this both, for Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.1 project.
One of the sections on the Hub page for Windows and Windows Phone:
Happy coding
