This presentation was delivered during Pune User Group's annual Developer Conference aka DevCon 2013. This presentation covers important points to consider before publishing app to the store for successful submission.

1. Building Store Ready
Applications for Windows
Phone
Mayur Tendulkar
http://www.mayurtendulkar.com
Celebrating 10 glorious years of sharing passion

2. Agenda
• Building End-to-End Application
• Follow Design Principles
• App Guidelines
• App Submission Process
• Learning From Failures

3. Building End-to-End Application
• Sample Application – Movie Quotes
• For simplicity, data stored in XML

4. Demo
Building Movie-Quotes Application

5. Follow Design Principles
• Pride in Craftsmanship
• More with Less
• Fast and Fluid
• Authentically Digital
• Win as One

6. Pride in Craftsmanship

7. More with Less

8. Fast and Fluid

9. Authentically Digital

10. Win as One

11. App Guidelines
• Make It Responsive (3-5-20 Rule)
• Understand app-lifecycle & manage states
• Respect hardware buttons & user actions
• Check memory usage (Rule of 90s)
• Handle Exceptions

12. App Submission Process
• Disable debug information
• Build in ‘Release Mode’
• Provide imagery for app
• Run performance analysis
• Use Store Test Kit
• Provide correct information
• Select markets & pricing - wisely
• Include certification notes

13. Learning From Failures
• Read The Report
• Understand the clauses
• Re-produce errors
• Fix them
• Re-submit

14. DevCon 2013 Partners

15. Get connected…
http://www.puneusergroup.org
http://www.facebook.com/puneusergroup
http://twitter.com/puneusergroup
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Pune-User-Group-2023294

16. Celebrating 10 glorious years of sharing passion