Apply your existing skills with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—and start building your own Windows 8 apps now. As a member of the Windows Ecosystem team, the author has trained hundreds of Microsoft engineers and has been on the front lines of bringing the first Windows 8 apps to the Windows Store. Through this book, you’ll get a thorough grounding in platform features and considerations, and delve into development essentials across the whole scope of the Windows 8 platform. And you’ll gain insights and best practices on design, coding, and performance from real-world developers working on real-world apps.

Topic includes:

• Platform Characteristics


• App Anatomy and Page Navigation


• Controls, Control Styling, and Basic Data Binding


• Collections and Collection Controls


• Layout


• Windows 8 Style Commanding UI


• State, Settings, Files, and Documents


• Input and Sensors


• Media


• Purposeful Animations


• Contracts


• Tiles, Notifications, the Lock Screen, and Background Tasks


• Networking


• Devices and Printing


• WinRT Components


• Localization, Accessibility, and the Windows Store