New help for porting iOS apps to Windows Store apps
The following new articles for iOS developers are live on the Windows Store apps Dev Center:
Windows 8 controls for iOS developers
- Rethinking iOS table views (includes video)
- Titlebars, toolbars and app bars
- Collection views
- Charms (includes video)
- Tiles and badges
Windows 8 cookbook for iOS devs
- Skinning and animating a button
- Data binding controls
- Loading and processing bitmaps
- Loading and saving settings
- Push notifications
- Creating a trial version of your app
- Sharing test builds
- Running code in the background
- App lifecycle for iOS devs
- Supporting multiple resolutions
- Playing a sound effect
- Using a database
- Downloading JSON data
- Code libraries, toolkits and other sources of help
- Source control with Visual Studio
- Visual Studio hints and tips (includes video)
Recreating iOS app designs in Windows 8
Also:
Resources for iOS developers (now includes video)
Getting started (a refactoring of an article previously published under this title)
- Getting started: Creating a project (includes video)
- Getting started: Choosing a programming language
- Getting started: Getting around in Visual Studio
- Getting started: Common Controls
- Getting started: Navigation
- Getting started: Animation
- Getting started: What next?
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