Universal Windows apps enable you to target every Windows device in one solution. You develop once, share most of your code, and deploy on Windows, Windows...

In this article, we're going to focus on the user interface of Windows Phone applications. One of the key ingredients is XAML or Extensible Application...

Smartphones and tablets are, without any doubt, the kings of the consumer market. For sure, the iPhone by Apple was the product that forced all the other...

Recent store trends show that offering your app in English will cover only about 25% of Windows Phone customers. Adding Spanish, French, Mandarin, Russian,...

In the previous article, you learned how to store data in your app's isolated storage. In this article, we focus on working with local databases that live in...

Isolated storage is used to store local data on a Windows Phone. It is "isolated" because other applications can't access this data. Its mobile architecture...

Ever since Xamarin 3 was introduced, there's been quite a bit of buzz around it. The idea of being able to create a mobile application, including the user...

As you continue to progress in the ways of Xamarin.Forms, you will become more and more familiar with the out of the box controls. At some point, though, it...

In this series, you've learned a number of essential skills that are necessary for developing Windows Phone applications. You must be wondering where to go...

The Windows Phone 8 SDK contains a lot of unique elements that enables users to easily identify Windows Phone applications. Pivot and Panorama are two unique...

We can't imagine a mobile application without media content, such as images and sound. Media content is key for many applications. In this tutorial, I'll be...

To capture and respond to user interaction on Windows Phone, such as the user tapping and swiping, we'll need to understand how the Windows Phone event model...