FastClick for WP7 – Improving Browser Responsiveness for PhoneGap Apps
Colin Eberhardt, January 5th, 2012
I recently released an update of the HTML5 / PhoneGap application I wrote a few months ago to the marketplace. This update fixed the location detection issue, where the marketplace certification process failed to detect that the application was using geolocation data via the browser (this issue has been fixed in PhoneGap 1.2), plus a [...]
A Festive and Fun Windows Phone 7 Maze Game
Colin Eberhardt, December 22nd, 2011
Last night, with my Christmas presents all wrapped and a lack of any decent programmes (festive or otherwise) on television, I had a few hours to kill, so decided to create a festive-themed WP7 game … Ever since I first started writing code for Windows Phone 7 I have wanted to do something involving physics [...]
A Simple Multi-Page Windows Phone 7 PhoneGap Example
Colin Eberhardt, December 15th, 2011
This blog post shows how you can use PhoneGap to create Windows Phone 7 applications that are comprised of multiple, simple HTML pages, whilst meeting the Marketplace certification requirements. Readers of my blog will know that I have been working on, and writing about, the use of PhoneGap to create HTML5-based Windows Phone 7 applications. [...]
A Windows Phone 7 Slide View with Page Pips
Colin Eberhardt, December 8th, 2011
A popular user-interface in the iOS world is the UIPageControl which renders a small set of dots to indicate the number of pages, with the current page highlighted in some way. This is often used in conjunction with a UIScrollView to navigate between pages in a multi-page layout. Windows Phone 7 has a Pivot control [...]
Handling the back-stack in Windows Phone 7 PhoneGap applications
Colin Eberhardt, November 28th, 2011
Recently I have been researching the use of PhoneGap for creating HTML5 Windows Phone 7 applications. I have written an introductory post on the subject and also managed to have a HTML5-based application accepted into the marketplace. The Windows Phone 7 execution model has a few unique features (when compared to Android and iOS) that [...]
Pushpin Clustering with the Windows Phone 7 Bing Map control
Colin Eberhardt, November 21st, 2011
This blog post provides a simple utility class that will cluster pushpins on a Bing Map control. This utility provides a way to achieve great performance with 1000s of pushpins. The Bing Map control for Windows Phone 7 is a versatile control, allowing you to provide your users with an interactive map. The control has [...]
Suppressing Zoom and Scroll interactions in the Windows Phone 7 WebBrowser Control
Colin Eberhardt, November 17th, 2011
This blog post describes a simple helper class that can be used to supress scrolling and pinch zoom of the Windows Phone 7 WebBrowser control. Developers of Windows Phone 7 application have the full power of IE9 at their disposal in the shape of the WebBrowser control. This control allows you to render both local [...]
A Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) MVVM Tombstoning Example
Colin Eberhardt, October 3rd, 2011
In this blog post I look at the new application lifecycle model that Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) introduces, and show how to handle the various lifecycle events in a simple MVVM application. In a previous blog post I described the development of a simple Windows Phone 7 application using the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern and how [...]
Developing Windows Phone 7 HTML5 apps with PhoneGap
Colin Eberhardt, September 29th, 2011
This article show the step-by-step development of a Windows Phone 7 HTML5 application using PhoneGap. It also looks at how viable this approach is for cross-platform mobile development. Introduction … and Why HTML5? Windows Phone 7 allows native application development in both Silverlight and XNA, both of which are mature framework with excellent tool support. [...]
Building Windows Phone Apps – a free WP7 eBook
Colin Eberhardt, September 22nd, 2011
I’ve just had an email land in my inbox from Microsoft’s Mike Ormond, announcing that the Windows Phone 7 book that I contributed a couple of chapters to (Introduction and Tools), has finally been published! This is a collaborative book with contributions from Pete Vickers, Andy Gore, Mike Hole, Gergely Orosz, Sasha Kotlyar, Dominic Betts, [...]