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Creating world-ready apps

Creating world-ready apps . Jan Nelson, Sr. Program Manager Lead Cameron Lerum , Sr. Program Manager Windows World-Readiness 2-058. Agenda. Global market o pportunity World-ready a pp d emo Globalization Translation. Global market o pportunity. Windows Store

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Creating world-ready apps

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  1. Creating world-ready apps • Jan Nelson, Sr. Program Manager LeadCameron Lerum, Sr. Program Manager • Windows World-Readiness • 2-058

  2. Agenda • Global market opportunity • World-ready app demo • Globalization • Translation

  3. Global market opportunity • Windows Store • Publish your apps in over 230markets • Local currency support in over 64markets • Translate your apps into more than 106languages • Markets within markets • 316 million people in the USA, 35 million prefer to speak Spanish at home* • *http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/data/acs/ACS-12.pdf

  4. Designing for a global market • Content in my language • Data formatted correctly for my culture (dates, times currency, etc.) • Text input just works • Customer’s view: experiences relevant to me

  5. Designing for a global market • Developer’s view: cost-effective app creation • Code base identical across all languages • Separate the code from any UI text that must be translated • Support linguistic and cultural needs of all users

  6. World-ready app demo • Create a new app • Add localizable resources • Add the resources to your XAML • Add language-specific resources • Set language preferences and test

  7. Multilingual App Toolkit • Integrates with Visual Studio’s IDE • Pseudo language for ‘in house’ testing • Microsoft Translator Service-based translations • Export & import for translators • Dedicated translation editor

  8. Windows globalization namespaces & classes

  9. Globalization APIs • Windows.Globalization.Calendar • GetTimeZone() • ChangeTimeZone() • TimeZoneAsString() • IsDaylightSavingTime() • Windows.Globalization.DateTimeFormatting • Format(DateTime.Now, "America/Guatemala“)

  10. A World-Ready Meeting Request App Demo • Calendar • Time zones • Translation model extensibility

  11. Microsoft language assets • Terminology: lookup & downloads • UI Translations: Microsoft products via MSDN and Technet • Style Guides: Collections of rules that define language and style conventions

  12. Recycling cross-platform demo • Leverage existing translations

  13. Resource packs • The new resource-pack model allows you to deploy only the resources your customer needs—in the right language for them, or at the right scale factor for their specific devices—instead of delivering all your resources to every user, which saves footprint for all customers • When you add a new language, don’t update code or even the version number. Changing code or version number forces an update to all users irrespective of their language preference settings. • The Store provides language updates automatically to your users based on their selected language preferences, which saves bandwidth and footprint.

  14. Global market opportunity Localizable by design New and enhanced globalization APIs Multilingual App Toolkit Resource packs Key takeaways

  15. Resources • Free offer from MSPRESS for all //BUILD attendees • You simply need to click on the ebook version to “buy” and enter the coupon code for it to be 100% discounted • http://oreilly.com/go/ms-manual-of-style • Code: BUILD • Start date:  2013-06-24End date:  2013-06-29 • 100% discount on the ebook

  16. Resources • 2-095 – John Sheehan – First launch performance • 2-9061 – Jason Salameh – Reducing your app’s disk footprint • Microsoft Language Portal • MSDN UI String Glossary (subscription based) • Globalization APIs • Windows Store apps downloads • IANA Time zone Standard • Application resources and localization sample

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