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Windows Phone Development. Munir Usman Microsoft Most Valuable Professional – Visual C# Founder/CEO – Pi Labs (http://pi-labs.net) http://about.me/munir. Amir Ali Jiwani CTO – Pi Labs http://about.me/amir.ali. Pi Labs – http://pi-labs.net. jobs@pi-labs.net.
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Windows Phone Development MunirUsman Microsoft Most Valuable Professional – Visual C# Founder/CEO – Pi Labs (http://pi-labs.net) http://about.me/munir • Amir Ali Jiwani • CTO – Pi Labs • http://about.me/amir.ali Pi Labs – http://pi-labs.net jobs@pi-labs.net
Revolution In Mobile Application Development Mobile Developer Ecosystem Microsoft Strategy in Mobile Introduction to Windows Phone Development Code Demo Future Talk Agenda Pi Labs – http://pi-labs.net jobs@pi-labs.net
1980s: OS, Compilers, DBMS, Word Processors, System Programming 1990s: Desktop Era - Powerful OS, Visual Programming, Business Apps, Consumer Apps, Entertainment 1995 - Now: Web Era: dot-com bubble, RIA, Ajax, Web 2.0 Revolution Pi Labs – http://pi-labs.net jobs@pi-labs.net
Question: What is next? Revolution Mobile & Cloud! Pi Labs – http://pi-labs.net jobs@pi-labs.net
Mobile Development Market worth 2010 – 6.2 Billion USD 2013 – 25 Billion USD (Estimated by Gartner) Your one $0.99 app can make you millionaire in few weeks! Opportunity – Eco System Pi Labs – http://pi-labs.net jobs@pi-labs.net
iShoot - Ethan Nicholas (video) Ordinary Software Engineer at Sun Made $600,000 in first month and left his job Angry Birds – Rovio (17 people company in Finland) (video) Sold over 10+ million copies on App Store iTeleport – A Pakistani Phd student in US (video) Making more than $1000 a day with his $25 VNC app Eco System – Success Stories Pi Labs – http://pi-labs.net jobs@pi-labs.net
iPhone & iPad + Pioneer in modern touch based mobile device + Great User Experience + Extremely successful Eco-System - Very restrictive platform by Apple - Only Obj-C (Memory management is real pain!) - Developer must have Mac OS to develop apps - Not very developer friendly - Single hardware vendor Popular Platforms Pi Labs – http://pi-labs.net jobs@pi-labs.net
Android + Fastest growing Mobile Platform + Open Source + Developer friendly(not so friendly ;) Java, Eclipse, Net Beans - Eco-System is not matured - Bad Quality Control Popular Platforms Pi Labs – http://pi-labs.net jobs@pi-labs.net
Introducing Windows Phone Video Pi Labs – http://pi-labs.net jobs@pi-labs.net
+ Great User Experience - Video + Multiple Hardware Vendors – PC Model + Eco System – Existing Windows Marketplace Less restricted than Apple AppStore but better than Android Market + Launched worldwide last month Can capture market of Asia and Middle east easily + Backed by Microsoft Marketing Windows Phone - Introduction Pi Labs – http://pi-labs.net jobs@pi-labs.net
+ Best Development Tools – VS 2010, Expression and XNA • + Extremely Easy to Program • If you know Silverlight, you’re already Windows Phone Developer • + Metro UI and Live Tiles • + Integration with Xbox Live • Same game you can play on Xbox, PC and now on Phone • + Already have thousands of Apps ready (Video) • + 200,000+ Downloads of Beta tools (few months ago) • + 5000+ apps in Marketplace in just 2 months! Windows Phone - Development Pi Labs – http://pi-labs.net jobs@pi-labs.net
Learn from (others?) mistakes It’s a Do & Die situation! Repeat the history of Desktop OS when Windows beats Linux and Mac OS. Key of Success? (Video) Developers, Developers and Developers! Microsoft Strategy Pi Labs – http://pi-labs.net jobs@pi-labs.net
May be too late? • BUT • +its just the beginning of revolution! • +Mac OS came before Windows • +PlayStation existed long before Microsoft Xbox • Mobile Market is not unknown to Microsoft • Windows Mobile was a success till 2008-09 Windows Phone - Risks Pi Labs – http://pi-labs.net jobs@pi-labs.net
Paradigm shift in computing industry! Big Opportunity! All you need is an idea! Start learning now! Summary Pi Labs – http://pi-labs.net jobs@pi-labs.net
Get the Windows Phone Developer Tools Download the UI Design and Interaction Guide Interact with the design tools when Available http://developer.windowsphone.com Download & Start Creating Pi Labs – http://pi-labs.net jobs@pi-labs.net
Thank you! Pi Labs – http://pi-labs.net jobs@pi-labs.net