A few weeks ago I posted some tips on improving your apps Windows Store experience, particulaly around your Store Logo and your Logo Colour. Since then @vikingcode has trawled the site and found some interesting numbers. Over 325 apps in the store don’t have store icons including Microsoft’s own Build app. He’s created an interesting infographic and blog Drunk Compliance Tester I encourage you to check out.
Caliburn Micro on its various platforms has usually supported either a View Model first or a View first approach, but not usually both at the same time. Typically Silverlight and WPF applications follow a View Model first approach, usually with a Shell View Model and using view model composition. Meanwhile Windows Phone applications due to having the navigation concept baked very close to the hardware (with the back button) typically follow a View first approach and expose a navigation service to move between pages.
I’m pleased to announce that the next release of Hub Bug has been published by Microsoft into the Windows 8 Store. This release adds the following:
In continuing with the previous post on things to watch out for when submitting your Windows 8 app to the Store. If you browse through a category (Games seems especially affected) you’ll notice a lot of drab grey tiles for the apps. Combined with dark text gives you a tile that does the opposite of drawing attention to the app you’ve spent weeks lovingly creating. If you then click through to the app details you can see the background and text colors are repeated in the left hand sidebar, Very unappealing.
If you’ve been browsing the new Windows 8 Store you may notice every once in a while an app with an icon that looks like the listing on the left.