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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)

Calling API methods

Many projects are prepared as distributed systems with not only mobile applications. Very often, a set of web applications is used as well, for example, to enter data by users. Of course, such data also needs to be shown in mobile applications along with the possibility of updating them just after modification in the web-based part. What is more, some external data, for example, obtained from the sensors of mobile devices, may need to be entered into the system. These are only a few reasons why APIs are developed as a way of exchanging data between various parts of the system. In this chapter, you will learn how to send GET and POST-based requests to the API and obtain JSON-encoded results.

As an example, you will create the page that contains two buttons and a text block for presenting the results. After clicking on the first button, the GET request will be sent to the API. As a result, the JSON-encoded data of users will be returned. Then, the number of users, together...