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Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript

By : Rami Sarieddine
Book Image

Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript

By: Rami Sarieddine

Overview of this book

Windows 8 has already been launched and been installed on millions of devices while the store is getting populated with apps, and soon enough everyone will want a Windows Store app. So start now and learn how to develop apps for Windows 8 using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript and you will be killing two birds with one stone by getting introduced to important features in HTML5 and CSS3 at the same time. You will gain the advantage of utilizing your web development skills to transform your website into an app or the other way round. Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript is a practical, hands-on guide that covers the basic and important features of a Windows Store App along with code examples which will show you how to develop these features, all the while learning some of the new features in HTML5 and CSS3 which you can utilize in other areas of development. This book starts with the new features in HTML5 and CSS3 that are incorporated with Windows 8 development, and then moves on to creating a blank Windows Store app and add features to it as we move through the chapters till we package the app and make it ready for publishing. Finally, we will have a look at how similar it is to develop the same app with XAML. You will also learn how to add and use new controls dedicated for Windows 8 and then see how to fetch data for the app and bind it to the controls. We will also take a look at making the app adapt to change in screen sizes and rotation as well as how to make the app live with tiles and allow users to sign in using their email accounts. Also you will learn how to add an app bar, and lastly you learn how to finalize the app and publish it. If you want to leverage your web development skills and utilize it in developing for Windows 8, then you came to the right place. Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript is packed with examples and screenshots which will make it easy for you to implement all the things you learned throughout the book.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Nidal Arabi is a Software Engineer graduate of computer science from Lebanese American University in Lebanon, Beirut. He has worked in several companies in the banking sector as well as in the technology sector. He has been designated as Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and he has also written many articles on ASP Alliance website. He has experience in different technologies ranging from Java to .NET.

Juri Strumpflohner currently works as a Software Architect for an e-government company, where his main responsibility is to coach developers to create appealing rich client web applications with HTML5, JavaScript, and the .NET technology stack. If you're interested in web development and best practices in software development, you can visit his website at juristr.com, where he actively blogs about such topics. He also participates in online communities such as StackOverflow, and on open source projects on GitHub. When he is not in front of his computer, he is probably practicing Yoseikan Budo where he currently owns a 2nd DAN. He holds a degree of Master of Science in Computer Science.

Jenil Vasani has completed Engineering in Information Technology from Atharva College of Engineering. He is a tech enthusiast, developer, and Microsoft Student Partner, Gamer, and Blogger.