Windows Phone 8.1

[Deleted member 103]

Hi guys,

Apps for Windows Phone 8.1 Programming with Microsoft-Visual-Studio-Community-2013, and programming fun again.

Since about one month I convert my B4A app to Windows Phone 8.1, and I must say that it's easy and it's great fun.

It looks difficult at first, but over time you realize that it is actually very simple.

 

[susu]

The problem is "Who is using Windows Phone?". I only see Windows Phone in store, never see anyone use it in real life.

 

[sorex]

Who is using Windows Phone?

James Bond isn't

 

[Deleted member 103]

James Bond isn't

after the new James Bond film, it is certainly better.

 

[KMatle]

1 (in words: ONE) of my co-workers has one

 

[lte5000]

In the last 2 years, I had 2 or 3 people ask me to make a Windows Phone version of my Android/iPhone app... so far it hasn't seemed worth the effort to me.
Of course I might just be lazy.

 

[JonPM]

I've never met anyone with a Windows phone...

 

[susu]

James Bond isn't

And James Bond is not real

 

[imbault]

Hi guys,

Apps for Windows Phone 8.1 Programming with Microsoft-Visual-Studio-Community-2013, and programming fun again.

Since about one month I convert my B4A app to Windows Phone 8.1, and I must say that it's easy and it's great fun.

It looks difficult at first, but over time you realize that it is actually very simple.

Hi @Filippo ,

It sounds interesting, can you share your experience:
How to do migration: UI & code ?
How long is a sample migration ?
...

Can you share a sample Android & iPhone 8.1 project in order to have a look ?

Many thanks.

Patrick

 

[Deleted member 103]

I've never met anyone with a Windows phone...

I write apps not because I have to live on it, but because I enjoy it. With Visual Studio I can program with my favorite language ".Net".

I love B4A and B4i and will continue to work with thus determined, but with Visual Studio makes it more fun.

 

[sorex]

I'm always happy when my project or modifications ended that required .NET.

That things is so bloated and slow that it requires a new term to define that.

 

[MaFu]

It depends on ...
I use .NET (normally my preferred languages are Delphi and Python) to create plugins for big CAD systems. A part of this plugins running event driven in the background on every user change to checking or modifying thousends of objects at once. This can't be done if .NET are really slow.

 

[sorex]

I was talking about the IDE and it's time to compile a few lines of code. it's instant in any other language while VS needs seconds just for an empty project.

 

[MaFu]

Maybe it's time for a new PC
I haven't problems with VS at all and compiling is very fast (but maybe this depends on Oxygene because i don't use C#).

 

[Deleted member 103]

I'm always happy when my project or modifications ended that required .NET.

That things is so bloated and slow that it requires a new term to define that.

I just convert a B4a-App to WP8.1, it's done already to 90%.
Here the time of compiling to the first launch:
Visual-Studio= 13,82 second
B4A= 21,56 second

The app runs in WP8.1 very nice. My Test-Device is a Lumia 535.

 

[Deleted member 103]

Hi @Filippo ,

It sounds interesting, can you share your experience:
How to do migration: UI & code ?
How long is a sample migration ?
...

Can you share a sample Android & iPhone 8.1 project in order to have a look ?

Many thanks.

Patrick

Hi Patrick,

here is a simple GPS-app, once in B4a and once in WP8.1.

 

[imbault]

Many thanks, @Filippo