Chapter 1. A new phone, a new operating system
Figure 1.1. A variety of screen shots from Windows Phone 8: Starting with the Start Screen at bottom center and moving clockwise, you can see the Application List, Office Hub, People Hub, Email application, and Lock Screen.
Figure 1.2. The three screen resolutions of Windows Phone 8: 800 * 480 (WVGA) on the left, 1280 * 768 (WXGA) in the center, and 1280 * 720 (720p) on the right. All three images are running the sample application you’ll build in chapter 5. Notice how the 720p image has extra space at the bottom of the screen due to the different scale factor.
Figure 1.3. Common signs in railways and airports. On the left are icons integrated with text, whereas on the right only icons are used.
Figure 1.4. The Start Screen from the emulator containing several tiles of various formats and sizes
Figure 1.5. The three different sizes of a Flip tile. At the top of the image is the small-sized Flip tile showing only the background image and count badge. The front and back of both the normal-sized and double-wide-sized tiles are also shown—displaying the tile title, background image, count badge, and back-of-tile message.
Figure 1.6. Three different sizes of an iconic tile. Both the small and normal-sized tiles display the icon and the count centered in the tile. The double-wide tile moves the icon and count to the corner to make room for three rows of text.