App Studio is an awesome web-interface for creating fully functional Windows Phone 8 apps. It has support for displaying a variety of content from various mechanisms is multiple stylized ways. It is similar to XPCK, but affords you the ability to develop and create a store publishable .xap with nothing more than a web browser!…
Month: December 2013
Software Development, Windows Phone 8
Parse Phone numbers to clickable links in WP8 WebView
by Paul DeCarlo • • 0 Comments
You’ve got a Windows Phone 8 app and you want to initiate a phone call from a number embedded in a Web View. In Windows 8, this just works, literally put a phone number in your rendered html and the WebView will detect it and make it clickable. However, on Windows Phone 8 you will…
Software Development, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8
Awesome apps for Windows Phone and Windows 8 built with XPCK
by Paul DeCarlo • • 1 Comment
Today’s post will highlight some awesome apps created with the XPlatformCloudKit (XPCK). Many of these apps were created by first time developers and showcase unique ways of using a cross-platform app template. FYI, apps created with this template may qualify for prizes and cash from app development promotions offered by Microsoft. If you have trouble…