Indrek Ulst, Co-founder and Mobile Software Engineer @ Mooncascade

1. Windows Phone UI development
and
What's new in S40
Indrek Ulst
Co-founder, developer
Mooncascade
Tartu, 10.12.2012

2. Windows Phone UI development
● Visual Studio – Express (free) version has all
the tools you need for app development
● Expression Blend – advanced UI tool
● Both provided in the SDK, easy to learn and
use

3. Windows Phone: Visual Studio
● Most UI development can be done using only
Visual Studio
● It includes all basic UI controls
● Projects can be written in C#, VB or C++

4. Visual Studio Express

5. Windows Phone: Expression Blend
● Great for coplex UIs with custom graphics, etc.
More of a designer tool.
● Enables designers and developers to work on
the same code
● Expression blend allows sample data binding
(pre 8.0 SDK)

6. Expression Blend

7. Windows Phone: New in SDK 8
● New Live Tile sizes and types (small and wide,
cycle tiles, etc.)
● Adding application notifications to lock screen
● C++ support
● The Windows Phone 8 SDK is only available for
Windows 8

8. What's new in Series 40?
● New S40 Asha Phones
● Full touch support
● SDK 2.0 for Java
● Nokia IDE for Java ME (Eclipse)

9. What's new in Series 40?
● Touch UI and sensor emulation
● Integrated Maps API
● LWUIT Beta: widget toolkit for UI
development
● Action buttons and category bar

10. Thank you!
● Questions?