I would like your input, so that i can make a good decision on whether I should use Cirrious MvvmCross or Galasoft MVVM Light Toolkit?
I am going to be developing 2 applications using Universal Apps (Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1) in XAML/C#. I am not new to developing windows phone and windows 8 apps however i am new to developing MVVM apps and thus would greatly appreciate you into in this?
Should i use Cirrious MvvmCross or Galasoft MVVM Light Toolkit, (should I use something else) what are their strengths and weakness?
Thank you for your time and your help!
Is there an added benefit for using MVVMCross in your app? Will you be developing an Android or IOS APP? If the answer no, then there is no need for MVVMCross or such. The new WinRT API should have 95% of what your app needs. You can add a portable class library to the solution and share third party libraries between the apps as well.
Good Luck.
MvvmCross is the best way to cross-platform work with xamarin for exemple but you can work with it just for create windows and windows phone app.
MvvmLight is really good to implement mvvm pattern in your project.
Just for create ms app, you should work with mvvm light.
MvvmLight does not have support for iOS yet. Support for Android was added in version 4.0 in May 2014. More info here : http://blog.galasoft.ch/posts/2014/05/mvvm-light-v4-4-with-xamarin-android-support/
MvvmCross does not support Universal Apps (yet).
More info here :https://github.com/MvvmCross/MvvmCross/issues/656
A ray of hope here : http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/developers/articles/week05jun14/mvvmcross-support-for-universal-apps
Looks like you have two options -
MvvmCross allows you to share code with Windows Phone and Windows 8 also. Just not via Universal App project. If the objective is to share code - you can go with MvvmCross. You wil get your WinPhone and WinStore apps along with Android and iOS also.
Start with Mvvmlight on Universal App and hope for Xamarin.iOS support soon.
http://blog.galasoft.ch/posts/2014/04/building-a-universal-application-for-windows-phone-8-1-and-windows-8-1-with-mvvm-light/
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We are planing to develop new app .It has VoIP feature and app is similar to whatsapp.
Since the app has Voip feature we have to go with WP8 silver light. Winrt for WP is not supporting VOIP api.
Can we guess almost all the WP8 devices are upgraded to WP8.1 ? If there are large user base still remains in WP8 we will develop the app using WP8 api's (Using VS2012). Otherwise we will go with WP8.1 api's (using VS2013).I heard there are few performance improvements and controls are available in WP8.1
Any suggestions on this ?
Thanks in advance
All Lumia phones can be updated to WP8.1 and a huge part of users so did.
Just an article for reference: http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/02/nokia-lumia-windows-phone-8-1-update/
On my apps I use analytics to track users and I hardly see few users stuck with WP8.
Update - market share
http://www.gsmarena.com/adduplex_wp81_market_share_surpasses_wp80-news-10062.php
This article is from last October, WP8.1 has been out for about 5 months and it had already surpassed WP8. I let you think the actual quota...
Should you go with WinRT? It depends on your needs. Of course you should use at least WP8.1 Silveright (not WP8). But if your application does not require specific functions only available in WinRT, you might go with WP8.1 Silverlight, since WinRT has still many little performance issues.
There are a lot of new available APIs and features either for WP 8.1 Silverlight or WinRT. I would definitely target 8.1. Users still using WP 8.0 probably don't care that much about apps anyway.
I'm creating an app using the universal app template from visual studio 2013 update 2 and I'm trying to add Admob SDK. However, when I try to compile even before adding the adView control to a page I receive an error saying that this kind of project cannot have an adcontrol.
Does anyone know a solution for this?
As for now AdMob library contains only Silverlight components. So it is not compatible with WinRT and Windows Phone 8.1 apps. The only alternative for now is Microsoft's pubCenter, which is limited to list of countries.
Also you can use AdDuplex - it is not exactly for earning but for promoting your app.
Where can i find some nice tutorials on developing apps that target windows phone apps specifically?
I want to take advantage of direct x.
Is Developing Windows phone apps remotely the same as developing a windows application?
Ima newb but i just read an entire c++ book.
I am currently in Asia, And can not google at the moment :D
You could find great tutorials at http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/
and developing apps for widows phone is quiet the same but you've gotta learn a few new class since WP and windows don't fully share the WinRT Core. You can develop apps using C++ but i would recommend to go for C# because it is far flexible that C++ and getting help is easy...
I want to develop an cocos2d-x game for android & iphone. I don't know from were to start my development. I know there is an template available for iphone, but after creating it on iphone how build it for android platform?
And what if i want to develop game form the eclipse itself rather then developing on iPhone and then migrating to android
I had already tried various tutorials of ray wenderlich, tutorial on cocos2d-x.org, http://paralaxer.com/cocos2d-x-project-setup/, http://www.multigesture.net/articles/how-to-setup-cocos2d-x-windows-and-android/, http://www.jesusbosch.com/2012/06/how-to-set-up-android-and-win32-cocos2d.html, http://gameit.ro/2012/01/creating-an-iphone-and-android-cocos2d-x-hybrid-project-updated/
From all of the above tutorials i am not able to get any proper solution.
Also tell me should i have to develop(code) on iPhone and then build for android?
Thank You in advance
simple :
-> Framework : cocos2d-X
-> Editor : Xcode
-> Language : C++
once you complete your Game for iphone then You can port your this game to any platform like Android or Windows. you already have all useful links . still follow this :
Setting_up_Android_Development_Environment_on_Mac_OSX :
http://www.cocos2d-x.org/projects/cocos2d-x/wiki/Setting_up_Android_Development_Environment_on_Mac_OSX
How to port your project to win32,iPhone and Android
http://www.cocos2d-x.org/boards/6/topics/3001
Integrate Cocos2d-x (C++) into an Android application (Java)
http://jpsarda.tumblr.com/post/26000816688/integrate-cocos2d-x-c-into-an-android-application
-> You just have to convert this native code using some JNI or say NDK .
-> using Cocos2d-x u can Develop games on Windows, Mac OS and Linux .
Personally if you are deploying to multiple platforms your best bet is to use a gaming engine. Currently Unity3D, UDK, and newly released Havok's Anarchy Engine supports deployment to these platforms and more. This way you can develop once and deploy to multiple locations. Cost is free for Havok, UDK if you are a small company, and I believe Unity3D now has free licensing to iOS and Android for their non-Pro versions.
I think going this route is far more promising than using cocos2d
The method I use is to use the templates for both iOS and Android that create projects for Xcode and Eclipse respectively. When you have this, you remove the Classes and Resources folders in for example the Eclipse project and replace those folders with links to the Xcode folders Classes and Resources.
What you now have is two projects, one for iOS and one for Android, that both use the same C++ code and resources. You can now choose which of Xcode and Eclipse that you prefer to use when developing and just switch to the other to compile for that platform and do testing and releasing there.
Hope that helps. :)
Look in cocos2d-x folder under /tools/project-creator/create-project.py , you should run that and it will create project for many platforms already set-up and from there you can just code in XCode, and platforms will share same source code.
I want to create simple 2D game (touch/click to win) and I have experience with C# and XNA for WP7.
But now at W8 there isn't XNA afaik.
What technologies I have to use for this game?
I want to run it on desktop W8 and WinRT.
Thank you for your help!
If the game is simple enough graphically - you could just use Silverlight on Windows Phone and XAML on Windows 8 which would let you share a lot of the code. Another option is to use XNA on Windows Phone and MonoGame on Windows 8. MonoGame is an open source version of XNA. Otherwise - on Windows you can use DirectX with C++ or using SharpDX with C#, but these are not available on WP7. They will probably be on WP8 only. Finally - Unity3D support is coming soon, but the final version is not available yet.