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    How to make money from your Windows Phone app free webinar. Sign-up now! Check out the prizes.

    It’s official. Building top-notch mobile app that generates actual revenue takes more than a smart idea,  developer’s skills, excellent tools and nice implementation. The app needs promotion and you as a developer need to take advantage of every potential opportunity for making money. Join us for our free webinar where we’ll talk about how to make money from your Windows Phone app. We’ll cover topics such as: the composite parts of a mobile app; discoverability of the app, best methods for monetization and best methods for re-engagement. We’re co-hosting the webinar with Tapjoy, a company offering a mobile advertising and publishing...
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    How to design a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Part 2

    Welcome to the second blog where we talk about the main similarities and differences between the design guidelines of the Windows 8 and the Windows Phone platforms and what this means to designers and developers. In the  first blog post we covered: Design process Layout and navigation In this part we will take a deeper look at: Commands and actions Touch Orientation and views Notifications and live tiles Telerik upcoming Windows 8 suite You can download the full series as: high resolution pdf  (~7 MB), or low resolution pdf (~2 MB).
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    What makes a marketer of a toolset for building Windows Phone apps happy?

    It is news like this one: two of the four apps that won the big prize of the 30 to Launch competition are built with RadControls for Windows Phone - the product our team is building with so much care. And the apps are: Play the hunt – built by Eshy Media Social Mints – built by Techark. Social Mints was also the winner of Core77's FastTrack to the Mobile App International Design Award and was featured at Mobile World Congress 2012. “We are extremely excited about this win as there were more than 130 apps submitted for the contest,” said Pratik Kothari from Techark. And So...
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    Designing a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Design Case Study Part 1

    A lot of the Windows Phone developers out there are already considering porting their Windows Phone apps to Windows 8. May be you are thinking: from Metro to Metro - it has to be pretty easy and straightforward, doesn’t it? Let’s see if this is true. This case study gives insights into porting the design of an existing Windows Phone app to a Windows 8 Metro app. It discusses the main similarities and differences between the design guidelines of the two platforms, what can and cannot be reused. User Experience Design Guidelines for Windows Phone User Experience Design Guidelines for Windows 8 For...
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    GDI+ in a Windows 8 C# Metro Application – Experimenting for Fun

    It’s been about two months since Windows 8 Consumer Preview is out and we, at Telerik, have been enjoying the new framework and all the features it offers. One of the aspects we've been exploring is the immediate mode rendering and what options the new runtime offers. XAML is in the core of WinRT (Windows Runtime) and it offers rich presentation capabilities but sometimes, especially on devices with limited hardware resources, we need to achieve even better performance to get up to the “fast and fluid” Metro applications' standard. As I explained in this blog post, Direct2D is undoubtedly the best choice...