6. Goal of this session
Download and play with Windows 8 and VS11
If you know web technologies, you are ready to build
amazing Metro style apps
Understand what you need to add upon your HTML5
skills to build Win8 Metro apps
18. Popular CSS features in Windows 8
Transforms Motion Layout
2D & 3D transforms Animations Grid
Transitions Flexbox
Graphics Motion
Gradients Multi-column,
Filter Effects hyphenation
Text-shadow Pagination
Position float
Windows hardware acceleration makes these beautiful and fast
22. WinJS
Library for building Metro Style apps using JavaScript
Make your apps look and feel great
Matches the Windows Metro design style
Controls for common user experiences
Designed for touch as well as traditional input
Build your apps fast and with high quality
40. Search
Users often search to find the content they care about, be
it on the web, local machine, network, or in an app.
41. Search
Apps have rich content, but users have to find and
launch the app before searching in it.
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44. Search
Search is universally accessible, contextual to
your app and always just a single swipe away.
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48. Tiles are the “front door” to you app,
Treat it as an extension of your app
49. Basic Tiles
Tap on tile to launch or switch to an app
Static default tile specified in manifest of the app
Two sizes:
Square (1x1) Wide (2x1)