I’m not a designer and one of the hardest things for me is a good colour scheme for an app, Windows Phone is a little easier in that if you don’t have an existing branding theme to work with you can respect the users choice regarding dark or light theme as well as accent colour.
Lately I’ve been working towards a Windows Phone 8 update to Left to Spend and thought I’d give you a rough demo of one of the new features.
Over the weekend I discovered a really good app in the Windows Store, It’s AppMock by Telerik, a fantastic little app to sketch out prototypes of my Windows 8 apps on both the desktop and the tablet.
Today I’m happy to say that Rob Eisenberg has released 1.4 of Caliburn Micro! This includes full support for WinRT and Windows Phone 8. There’s been a lot of work put in by a lot of different people. Here’s Rob’s announcement.
I was all set to write a post on providing the scaled sizes (100%, 140%, 180%) for all the required images for a Windows 8 app (please don’t forget about your store logo.