Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML,CSS and JavaScript

Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML,CSS and JavaScript

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161 Pages | PDF | 4.4 Mb | English

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Who This Book Is For
This book is about writing Metro style apps for Windows 8 using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Our primary focus will be on applying these web technologies within the Windows 8 platform, where there are unique considerations, and not on exploring the details of those web technologies themselves. For the most part, then, I'm assuming that you're already at least somewhat conversant with these standards. We will cover some of the more salient areas like the CSS grid, which is central to app layout, but otherwise I trust that you're capable of finding appropriate references for everything else.

I'm also assuming that your interest in Windows 8 has at least two basic motivations. One, you probably want to come up to speed as quickly as you can, perhaps to carve out a foothold in the Windows Store sooner rather than later. Toward that end, I've front-loaded the early chapters with the most important aspects of app development along with "Quickstart" sections to give you immediate experience with the tools, the API, and core platform features. On the other hand, you probably also want to make the best app you can, one that performs really well and that takes advantage of the full extent of the platform. Toward this end, I've also endeavored to make this book comprehensive, helping you at least be aware of what's possible and where optimizations can be made.

Many insights have come from working directly with real-world developers on their real-world apps. As part of the Windows Ecosystem team, myself and my teammates have been on the front lines bringing those first apps to the Windows Store. This has involved writing bits of code for those apps and investigating bugs, along with conducting design, code, and performance reviews with members of the core Windows engineering teams. As such, one of my goals with this book is to make that deep understanding available to many more developers, including you!

What You'll Need

To work through this book, you should download and install the Windows 8 Release Preview along with the Windows SDK and tools. These, along with a number of other resources, are listed on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516. I also recommend you visit http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Windows-8-Modern-Style-App-Samples and download the entire set of JavaScript samples; we'll be using many of them throughout this book.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1   The Life Story of a Metro Style App: Platform Characteristics of Windows 8
Chapter 2   Quickstart
Chapter 3   App Anatomy and Page Navigation
Chapter 4   Controls, Control Styling, and Basic Data Binding
Chapter 5   Collections and Collection Controls
Chapter 6   Layout
Chapter 7   Metro Style Commanding UI
Chapter 8   State, Settings, Files, and Documents
Chapter 9   Input and Sensors
Chapter 10   Media
Chapter 11   Purposeful Animations
Chapter 12   Contracts
Chapter 13   Tiles, Notifications, the Lock Screen, and Background Tasks
Chapter 14   Networking
Chapter 15   Devices and Printing
Chapter 16   Extensions
Chapter 17   Apps for Everyone: Localization, Accessibility, and the Windows Store
Chapter 18   Services

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