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Windows Phone 7.5: Building Location-aware Applications

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Windows Phone 7.5: Building Location-aware Applications

Overview of this book

Windows Phone 7.5 has met with some great initial reviews from all mobile critics. It is poised to be the '3rd' eco-system for mobile, joining Apple's iOS and Google's Android platform. With Microsoft and Nokia working on multiple devices based on Windows Phone, the platform is a no-brainer enterprise success. Microsoft Office, Email, Skype and a fresh new mobile operating system has been a great champion of a cause for both Microsoft and Nokia. "Windows Phone 7.5: Building Location-aware Applications" will teach you to divein to the new Windows Phone Experience. No more 600 page bibles - just the right mix of text and lots of code to get you started!"Windows Phone 7.5: Building Location-aware Applications" covers location based services and maps, and focuses on methods of location detection and maps. Powered with this information, two real-world applications are covered. In short, this is a concise book on building location aware apps for Windows Phone.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Windows Phone 7.5: Building Location-aware Applications
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Understanding the Patch News API


AOL's Patch.com is a hyperlocal news portal that provides comprehensive and trusted local content to its users, and is powered by editors, writers, photographers, and videographers who live nearby.

Patch has a huge editorial team as well as freelance bloggers that help create original content, and which is published to a network of more than 850 sites. Patch local content includes news, events, business listings, photos, videos, and announcements. The geotagged hyperlocal content is available for third-party consumption via the Developer API at http://developers.patch.com/, which we will use to build our PacktNews app.

Before we move further towards building our app, lets us have a good look at the API calls provided by Patch.com and their structure. The Patch News API has the following four main components:

  • Authentication

  • Taxonomy (Categories)

  • Finding stories by location

  • Finding locations by name

Authentication

Any app or website that intends to use the Patch...