Moving to Windows Phone now

 Triviality
Feb 142012
 

The AWS App on iOS is pretty much done, at least I have made readonly part of S3 and EC2 works, and I don’t think write operations (create, update, delete, etc) are feasible to mobile phones.

I’m moving to Windows Phone now, trying to build up similar App in term of functionality – I’m not sure if I can build things with similar UI since different app store may have totally different tastes/rules on UI standard, better follow what they asked for.

I wish Windows Phone development will be easier thinking of I’ve done .Net/Visual Studio development before, let’s see – I give myself 2 weeks, and will spend no more than an hour per day.

Actually I tried both Android and Windows Phone the other day, trying to get basic idea of development. Obviously I don’t like Android, either because of I’m not a Java fan, or because of ugly interface of Eclipse – it may only be that ugly on OSX though, but I don’t have space (read: memory) to launch such a fat IDE in my Windows VM so leave it to the last.

  4 Responses to “Moving to Windows Phone now”

  1. Hang says:
    2012-02-14 at 17:04

    BTW, I forgot to mention (or I did before?) that I’ve upgraded my VM on Mac from Windows XP to Windows 7 so that I can run development tools. I believe people will jump up if Microsoft did this before, but after Apple made it as a common case (they need latest OSX to run latest development tools, may not be exactly the latest, but similar), people no longer yelling at this.

    Poor Microsoft.

  2. Hang says:
    2012-02-14 at 22:33

    Actually I found that I haven’t done the rotation stuff … will update to another version to get this done on iOS.

  3. Hang says:
    2012-02-15 at 10:47

    Well, it seems not that hard and I’ve made it, mostly. All UIViewController subclasses now have these lines:

    - (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
    // Return YES for supported orientations
    return interfaceOrientation != UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown;
}

    I just need to get the start screen done which does not reflect to any customized subclasses …

  4. Hang says:
    2012-02-15 at 22:32

    Done with main screen – it seems the UIViewController cannot get rotation enabled by Interface Builder, you have to subclass it.

    And now I found actually I have another thing left – localization, will spend another day on that ๐Ÿ™

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