rich windows 8 apps

Rich Windows 8 AppsThomas Castøe MartinsenMicrosoft MVP, Bluefragments

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Snap and Scale Beautifully

Feel Connected and Alive

Roam to the Cloud

Rich Windows 8 Apps

Snap and Scale Beautifully

People multi-task. An application can be displayed any one of these layouts:

Design for Multiple Views

Widescreen (1366x768+) Snap view (required)Minimum

(1024x768)

Portrait

Snapping is a built-in Windows 8 scenario.

Building a great snapped view keeps your app on screen.

Design a purposeful snapped state.Pan vertically in snapped for ergonomics and to avoid conflict with the edge and snap gutter.Maintain state and continuity across snapping and unsnapping.It is trivially easy to snap and unsnap. Don’t blow away the user’s work when this happens.

Snap

Feel Connected and Alive

Tiles are the “front door” to your app.Treat it as an extension of your app.

Secondary tiles let users promote interesting content from within your app on their Start screen.Provide a way to “deep link” to interesting, frequently updated sub-sections of your appAlbums in a photo app, People in a social app, News source from a feed app, etc.

Provide Pin command in the app bar when content in focus is pinable.Use runtime call to invoke system UI for pinning flyout. Ex: Weather.

Tiles

Roam to the Cloud

Leverage roaming to maintain state and preferences across machines.

Roam preferences that users are likely to set on each device anyway:Favorite sports team (sports app)Favorite movie genre (media app)

Let users continue a task across devices by roaming app data:Composing a to-do listComposing email

Roaming is best for user preferences, links, and small data files

Roam

Thomas Castøe Martinsenthomasm@bluefragments.com@xamlgeek

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