And if not then what do I have to do to make them?
(Our apps are in latest C# .NET.)
No. You would need to port your apps to the WP7 platform. You may be able to reuse some code, but the UI model is completely different.
Much of the C# sharp code is most likely the same but some things like saving and loading are different as well as you having a choice between XNA and Silverlight. The link below should contain a lot of the information you need.
http://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/
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I have a Windows Phone 8 (XAML/C#) app and a Windows 8(HTML/JS) app.
Both apps are very different visually, but they consume the same data from a JSON API service.
What would be the best approach (in time, effort and money) to engage the development of these apps?
Example:
Can i write only once the "JSON API/Connection/Serialization/DataModels/etc Code" and reuse it in both apps? (Maybe doing a portable class library)
Should i use XAML for both apps? Javascript for both apps? to unify code languages?
Should i have only one solution containing a WP8 project, and a W8 project?
What's with Windows RT? Will my Windwos 8 app run in WindowsRT?
What I think is :-
You should make portable class library (PCL) for your common code. As
PCLs are made for code reuse.
I think it is not much crucial what are using for UI, it is up to
you in which are good.
You should not make same project for Windows 8 and WP8. don't mix up
things here because there are lot of differences between these two
platforms. In the end you don't want that if you changes for Windows
8 and your WP8 apps stops working. don't create trouble for
yourself.
What I think for Win-RT is - it is at the edge of death. So don't
worry about them too much. In future everything going to be unified.
Note- I strongly recommend you PCLs for your common code. If something is not supported in PCLs then create separate projects(may be specific to platforms) and reuse them.
Hope it help you somehow.
Is there any realisation of animated GUI for any language except Silverlight?
Something like jQuery animations in web applications.
Something without requiring the user to install anything before using application.
Thanks ;)
You specifically exclude Silverlight, though it's not clear whether that is only because it targets the Web or for other reasons, too.
If you're happy to develop against the .NET Framework (which these days should be installed on most recent Windows systems), you could look at WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), which has many similarities to Silverlight (e.g. it's also based on XAML), but targets desktop applications.
Some articles point to Windows 8 development being HTML-based instead of primarily using native code like C or C++ (as it has been until now) or .NET (as now, or even more so as it would have been in Longhorn, but never was.)
Is this true? Will the core APIs be accessible from Javascript then? What is the primary API / framework for Windows 8?
This is worth asking. When Windows 8 was demonstrated in June, a couple of comments by the presenter scared quite a few developers - or at least turned the Internet into panic mode. I'm surprised this question hasn't been asked here before.
The best article on the topic I have found is Windows 8 for Software Developers on Ars Technica.
The short answer is: it will remain the same.
The long answer is: it will remain the same, but several things will be added. You may want to pursue using those if you're willing to bet on new Microsoft technologies. One particularly interesting one is WinRT, which is a new object-oriented native code API exposed through COM, which is supposed to be a new version of the old flat Win32 API. Details are in the linked article.
It is very, very, very, very unlikely that anything that already exists, especially based on Win32 or .Net, would be removed. That means your existing programs written in .Net or native C++ or Delphi will continue to work fine. It is also unlikely that the primary development platform will be HTML. More likely is that HTML applications will be encourage for specific scenarios - perhaps touchscreen, kiosks and tablets.
I'd encourage you to read the article I linked to above - it covers this in far more detail than any answer here can.
There are three ways to develop for Windows 8, and they all access the same underlying API, the Windows Runtime.
Use C++ and call WinRT functions much like calling Win32 APIs back in the day (you know, yesterday)
Use C# or VB and call what appear to be .NET methods (but aren't)
Use Javascript and call WinRT functions
The UI is built with XAML using a pretty reasonable designer. More details are still coming out: check http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011 for videos with detailed coding demos. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/BPS-1005 is not a bad starting point.
There are 3 language/framework combinations that are all equally supported:
C++ and XAML
C#/VB and XAML
JavaScript and CSS/HTML
All are first class ways to write Windows 8 Metro style applications. Windows Runtime provides direct access to each of these languages and so choice of development environment can be based on familiarity or feature set of the language and not on restricted availability.
Update: I forgot one: C++/Direct3D (for games).
The original quote, in the context of writing a tablet desktop weather gadget application, is that the application uses "our new developer platform, which is, uhh, it's based on HTML5 and JavaScript."
The demonstrator never said a gadget is the preferred type for applications (How many Vista sidebar gadget or Windows 7 desktop gadget have you written in your life? Even when you can write them in simple HTML!), or the platform is the preferred platform for desktop weather gadget applications (How many animation control have you add to your application with video playing requirement? It is THE control used by Windows Explorer to display video!).
Today, after spending a few minutes playing with Windows 8 developer preview, I found that you can use Expression Blend 5 to easily auto-generate metro-styled applications in HTML and Javascript. Also in Visual Studio you can create exactly looking applications in Silverlight. :)
I am very excited!!! Go Windows 8! :)
Real Player UI is definetely the one that I admire.
Need to know its development platform. So that I can request my team to work on same platform to deliver such a nice UI.
Is it .NET, MFC, WCF, WPF etc... etc... ?
Also which is the apt platform to use to make the application work on Window desktop PC, Web-enabled devices, iPhone or whatever.
I know if I use anything that is wrapped around window api, it can work only on device that works on Windows OS. (So definitely no iPhone)
So is there anything that can help programmers to work on UI application that are device independent
Nice UIs are not that attached to a specific platform, but to having a good designer and user experience designer.
Good UIs can be created in any platform.
I am certain there are many bad UIs that have been built with the same platform that RealPlayer was built in.
I'd like to develop a stand-alone desktop application targeting Windows (XP through 7) and Mac (Tiger through Snow Leopard), and if possible iPhone and Android. In order to make it all work with as much common code as possible (and because it's the only thing I'm good at), I'd like to handle the main logic with HTML and JS. Using Adobe AIR is a possibility. And I think I can do this with various application wrappers, using .NET for Windows XP, Objective C for iPhone, Java for Android and native "widget" platform support for Mac and Windows Vista & 7 (though I'd like to keep the widget in the foreground, so the Mac dashboard isn't ideal). Does anyone have any suggestions on where to start? The two sticking points are:
I'll certainly need some form of persistent storage (cookies perhaps) to keep state between sessions
I'll also probably need access to remote data files, so if I use AJAX and the hosting HTML file resides on the device, it will need to be able to do cross-domain requests. I've done this on the iPhone without any problems, but I'd be surprised if this were possible on other platforms.
For me, Android and iPhone will be the easiest to handle, and it looks like I can use Adobe AIR to handle the rest. But I wanted to know if there are any other alternatives. Does anyone have any suggesions?
You might be interested in Appcelerator's Titanium. It's an alternative to Adobe AIR that lets you build native mobile and desktop apps using HTML and JS (with the WebKit rendering engine, so you can take full advantage of HTML5 and CSS3). It also satisfies your two sticking points:
SQLite is available for persistence storage.
There are no restrictions on cross-domain requests.
I used Titanium Desktop for a recent project and it was a relatively smooth development process. It's also open source so you have access to the full application at all times.
Check it out and let me know if it works for you.
You can create a desktop application with HTML, CSS & Javascript using either of the following two frameworks
TideSDK
AppJS
For mobile you can use the similar HTML and Javascript using PhoneGap