Windows has launched a new Smartphone in the market which will be the newest platform for Smartphone development. Although it is new in market still it’s gaining the significant share and becoming the big competitive threat to existing Smartphones such as iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. Although the market share of window is comparatively smaller, but Microsoft won’t take too much time in coming to equality with other three phones which are having major share in the market.
Windows Phone application platform’s one big advantage is that people are familiar with its interfaces. As Microsoft is the dominating platform for operating systems as well as productivity software, so it is having a comfortable atmosphere with the user, which others cannot reach. As compare to other development platform, windows phone application platform allows developers to build their own businesses and consumer applications to run on windows phone.
Windows phone application platform is composed by working with existing Microsoft tools which contains Expression Blend, Silverlight, Visual Studio and the XNA Framework. Whereas the XNA Framework is employed in loop based gaming, Silverlight is used for event driven application development. So the result of this is that the developers who are already in touch with Microsoft technology faces no trouble in actualizing the application for Windows phone without going through a learning curve.
The run time services on the windows phone application platform is an advantage to the end user. Because it can be used to gain access to cloud-based services which includes Windows Azure or Xbox LIVE. It also facilitates the end user with an opportunity having very rich feature app with familiar interface and also the support for the data across number of devices. Microsoft’s Windows phone application platform offers a very strong developer portal for all developer, and also an app marketplace which makes it easier to market commercial app.
If we see from developer perspective, Windows phone application platform has four separate components, which start with Runtime-on screen including the Silverlight and XNA Framework. A protected Sandbox is included in this area. Secondly it’s having the toolset which includes Visual Studio and Expression blend, which helps in quickly creating the apps. It has Cloud services which include Windows Azure, Xbox LIVE and notification and location services. And at last it also has portal services that give developers an easy workspace for registering, certifying and marketing their apps. This service also includes a business intelligence section, which provides developers in-depth regarding their apps.
Developers will find Windows phone application platform an easy one. Because it does not use any new languages, instead of, it depends on existing framework, which is adapted for the Smartphone. Developers can do their programming with C# and the .NET framework.
Some of the newest and upcoming features on Windows phone application platform include the ability to copy and paste text in between emails, text messages, web pages and office mobiles. The response time for all apps and games on Windows phone application platform is very good and you can also find that marketplace offers number of set of application for very quick download.
