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Windows Application Development Cookbook

By : Marcin Jamro
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Windows Application Development Cookbook

By: Marcin Jamro

Overview of this book

Need to ensure you can always create the best Windows apps regardless of platform? What you need are solutions to the biggest issues you can face, so you can always ensure you’re making the right choices and creating the best apps you can. The book starts with recipes that will help you set up the integrated development environment before you go ahead and design the user interface. You will learn how to use the MVVM design pattern together with data binding, as well as how to work with data in different file formats. Moving on, you will explore techniques to add animations and graphics to your application, and enable your solution to work with multimedia content. You will also see how to use sensors, such as an accelerometer and a compass, as well as obtain the current GPS location. You will make your application ready to work with Internet-based scenarios, such as composing e-mails or downloading files, before finally testing the project and submitting it to the Windows Store. By the end of the book, you will have a market-ready application compatible across different Windows devices, including smartphones, tablets, and desktops.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Obtaining the current GPS location

Very often, smartphones are equipped with GPS receivers that allow you to get the current GPS coordinates. Of course, you can use such a sensor while developing applications. Due to the availability of a built-in mechanism, obtaining coordinates is really easy, as you will see in this recipe.

As an example, you will create a page with the map presenting an outline of Poland. The current location of the user will be shown on such a map as a black circle. What is more, the circle indicating the current status of the mechanism of obtaining the GPS coordinates will be presented on the page.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you only need the automatically generated project.

How to do it...

To prepare an example that presents the current location of the user on the map, perform the following steps:

  1. Add the Map.png file to the Assets directory. The file is available together with the code attached to this chapter.
  2. Enable the Location capability by double-clicking...