4. What is this talk about?
Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Stats
Prerequisites: WP7 & Silverlight
Research Methodology
Interesting Statistics
Quick Overview
Top frameworks
Based on @
JustinAngel.net/WindowsPhone7MarketplaceStatistics
5. Research Methodology
Downloaded WP7 Marketplace on 8/15
Marketplace APIs described publicly
Unzipped the downloaded XAPs
Asked some questions
Got answers
16. Stat #4: Cloned Apps
Common issue in all application stores
There are reasons to ship cloned apps
Lite / Full / Trial / Free versions
Books / Magazines
DIY Apps
etc
20. Stat #7: Frameworks
What are real devs using in real apps?
Adoption is a good indicator of
quality, applicability & usability.
Cut the FUD on frameworks.
25 Lightening overviews.
+30 bullet points.
21. Fx #1: WP7 Controls SDK
Microsoft.Phone.Controls.dll is used
14,848 apps.
Contains Pivot and Panorama controls.
22. Fx #2: Silverlight Toolkit
Microsoft’s Silverlight Toolkit for
Windows Phone 7 is used by 11,169
apps.
AutoCompleteBox ListPicker Transitions
ContextMenu LockablePivot TiltEffect
DatePicker LoopingSelector TimePicker
ExpanderView LongListSelector ToggleSwitch
GestureService MultiselectList WrapPanel
HubTile PhoneTextBox Performance-
ProgressBar
24. Fx #3: Blend Behaviours
Microsoft Expression Blend Behaviours,
Triggers & Actions are used by 6,010 apps.
Great for designers working with XAML.
“XAML Extensions methods”.
Added on other UI elements.
25. Fx #4: Microsoft Ads
Microsoft’s Advertising ADK for
Windows Phone is used by 5,760
apps.
Monetize on apps using pubCenter.
Best of breed Ads WP7 UX, API,
support and documentation.
26. Fx #5: Bing Maps WP7
Microsoft’s Bing Maps SDK for
Windows Phone 7 is used by 2,235
apps.
Great UX, great API, great docs.
Requires Bing Maps key.
27. Fx #6: LazyListBox
ItemTemplate LoadedItemTemplate
Mirosoft’s Peter Torr LazyListbox is
used by 1,364 apps.
WP7 NoDo had terrible ListBox
performance.
LazyListBox shows ItemTemplate while
LoadedItemTemplate is loading.
28. Fx #7: Html Agility Pack
Simon Mourier’s HTML Agility Pack is
used by 1,331 apps.
Allows to scrape, scan and fix HTML
pages with XPath and Linq queries.
Handles malformed HTML.
Generates HTML from DOM tree.
29. Fx #8: MVVM Light Toolkit
Laurent Bugnion’s MVVM Light Toolkit
is used by 1,320 apps.
Very basic toolkit supporting MVVM.
Messenger – Loosely coupled event
bus.
EventToCommand – Blend Behaviour
that fires ICommands on events.
RelayCommand – Simple ICommand.
30. Fx #9: Flurry Analytics
Flurry Analytics for Windows Phone 7
is used by 1,283 apps.
Requires Flurry account.
Really big with Android and iPhone
apps analytics. Organizations with
existing mobile apps love Flurry.
31. Fx #10: JSON.net
James Newton
JSON.net is used
by 1,082 apps.
Linq to JSON.
JSON Serializer
and JSON Deserializer.
WCF JSON serializer is incredibly slow
and is considered a worst practice.
32. Fx #11: Coding 4fun tools
Microsoft’s Clint Rutkas's Coding4Fun
Tools is used by 800 apps.
About Prompt Progress Overlay
Color Hexagon Round Button
Color Picker Round Toggle
Color Slider Super Slider
Input Prompt TimeSpan Picker
Message Prompt Toast Prompt
Memory Counter Value Converters
Password Prompt Binding Helpers
34. Fx #12: Hammock
Daniel Crenna’s Hammock is used by
741 apps.
REST Requests framework supporting:
Async, Retry, Caching, Authentication,
Tracing, Serialization and Validation.
35. Fx #13: Phone Perf Helpers
David Anson’s Phone Performance
Helpers are used by 705 apps.
WP7 NoDo had terrible Listbox Perf.
DeferredLoadListBox and
LowProfileImageLoader are great for
ListBoxes with Images.
36. Fx #14: WCF RSS
System.ServiceModel.Syndication.dll is
being used by 670 apps.
Parses (or generates) RSS and ATOM
into strongly-typed classes and
support LINQ querying.
37. Fx #15: SSME
Microsoft’s Smooth Streaming Media
Element is used by 604 apps.
Using SSME with IIS Smooth
Streaming provides video adaptive
streaming over HTTP.
Contains heuristics to change bitrates
based on network conditions and
client properties.
38. Fx #16: Facebook C# SDK
Jim Zimmerman and Microsoft’s
Nathan Totten’s Facebook C# SDK is
used by 603 apps.
Fully featured framework to access
Facebook data, OAuth and actions.
41. Fx #18: Google AdMob
Google AdMob ADK for Windows
Phone 7 is used by 542 apps.
42. Fx #19: ImageTools
Sebastian Stehle’s ImageTools is used
by 490 apps.
Loads and saves PNG, JPEG, BMP &
GIF.
Applies Effects (Rotate, Flip) and filters
(Sepia, Invert, GreyScale, Contrast,
Brightness and Blur).
Supports reading Barcodes.
43. Fx #20: Silverlight Toolkit
Microsoft’s Silverlight Toolkit for
Desktop is used by 484 apps.
Not supported on WP7.
44. Fx #21: #ziplib
SharpDevelop’s #ziplib is used by 432
apps.
Supports ZIP, FastZip, TAR and GZip
file extraction and creation.
45. FX #22: MEF
Microsoft’s Managed Extensibility
Frameworks is used by 398 apps.
An IoC framework that doesn’t like to
be called an IoC framework.
46. Fx #23: Analytics Framework
Microsoft Silverlight Analytics
Framework by Michael Scherotter is
used by 373 apps.
Supports Google Analytics,
WebTrends and 5 additional analytics
providers.
Supported by UI controls and Blend.
47. Fx #24: Tombstone Helper
Matt Lacey’s Tombstone Helper
Stores state for TextBox, PasswordBox,
CheckBox, RadioButton, Slider, ListBox,
and ScrollViewer with a x:Name
property .
48. Fx #25: Sterling OODB
Jeremy Likness’s Sterling Object
Oriented Database is used by 294
apps.
Client-side OODB storing in IsoStore.
Fast and compact.
49. Fx #26 – Fx #29
Microsoft’s XML Serialization.
Alan Mendelevich’s AdDuplex SDK:
WP7-only Ads library
Noah Hart’s C#-SQLite on WP7.
Davide Zordan, Laurent Bugnion and
David Kelley’s WP7 MultiTouch Blend
behaviours.
50. Fx #30 – Fx #34
José Ángel’s Widget Library for WP7:
Enables WP7 HTML apps.
Microsoft’s Media Platform Player
Framework for WP7: Fully-featured
Video player.
Daniel Crenna’s TweetSharp: Twitter
framework for WP7.
Microsoft’s WCF Data Services:
Consume OData services.
51. FX #35 – Fx #39
John Sheehan’s RestSharp: REST API.
René Schulte’s WriteableBitmapEx:
GDI+ drawing functionality.
Microsoft’s Rx (Reactive eXtensions):
Linq to Events state machine.
Manfred Dalmeijer’s aldarIT SuperAds:
Multiple Ad-Network Silverlight
Control for Windows Phone 7.
52. Fx #40 – Fx #45:
Sergey Barskiy’s Windows Phone 7
Database: RDBMS in WP7 IsoStore.
Rob Eisenberg’s Calburn.Micro: Fully
featured WP7 MVVM Framework.
Microsoft’s Windows Phone Shake
Gestures Library.
Rgelb’s adMob for Windows Phone 7.
Microsoft P&P’s Prism.
53. Fx #46 – Fx #49
Karl Seguin’s Mogade Windows
Phone: Server-side game services.
Simon McKenzie’s ExifLib: Reads
Camera EXIF Data.
Jeff Brand’s SlickThought WP7 Trial
Manager: Enhanced Trial Logic.
amCharts Quick Charts for Windows
Phone 7.
54. Fx #50 – Fx #54
Shawn Wildermuth’s PhoneyTools:
WP7 Helper classes.
Romeo Dumitrescu’s Windows Phone
7 Isolated Storage Explorer.
Jeff Weber and Ian Qvist’s Farseer
Physics Engine.
MobFox Windows Phone 7 Ads SDK.
Damian Karzon’s DropNet DropBox C#
API.
55. Fx #55
Pawel Idzikowski’s sharpSerializer:
open source XML and binary serializer.