Hard Work, Persistence and Passion . . . .
… will only get you so far ….
Something strange has been going on with my Windows Phone and App store downloads. Windows Store App Sales So not a very inspiring story but this graph shows sales revenue (not ad revenue) for Apps between April and June this year. The graph shows a regular income from App sales of between £5 and £10... Continue Reading →
A little odd, I received the following email today but have not had any indication of which Apps might be infringing copyright. Anyone else in the same position? “This is to inform you that you have more than one Intellectual Property complaint against your account. If we receive one additional Intellectual Property complaint regarding... Continue Reading →
At this stage downloads of my own Windows Phone Apps appear to have doubled since the release of Windows Phone 8 - with downloads continuing to increase on a daily basis. While reading positive sales stats and figures from Microsoft and Nokia is always a good thing, having access to ‘real data’ such as this... Continue Reading →
Live Tiles: ‘Get the important facts at a glance’ As owners of a Windows Phone we love our Live Tiles. Apart from the convenience they can save us valuable time when its simply not an option to stop what you are doing and fire up an App. But as an early adopter of Windows Phone... Continue Reading →
“Live Tile News” had a very favourable review on the BBC’s technology program “Click” last week and I have had a lot of questions around the impact on downloads. The first chart shows downloads for April – with the healthy spike being a result of the coverage received. The second chart is specific to “Live... Continue Reading →
Just got this email from Microsoft, looks like I have a little work to do … On Monday, Microsoft announced an update to Windows Phone, targeted at bringing the high-end smartphone user experience to more affordable phones in new places around the world. Windows Phone will now enable our partners to deliver low cost phones... Continue Reading →
Now more than ever its important for developers who have a primary focus on one platform to keep abreast of what is happening with todays competing platforms. These apps focus on the main competitors to the Windows Phone platform with an additional app dedicated to keeping up to speed with things in the Nokia camp:... Continue Reading →
A few people have asked what controls were used in the ‘Live Tile News’ app to create the ‘Flipping Live Tiles’ that feature on each page (If you haven't tried this app yet then each page has a number of two sided tiles which can be flipped over with an upward – or downward,... Continue Reading →
When I first started development for Windows Phone I remember excitedly travelling down to Microsoft in London for the day as I had the chance to test out my Apps on a real live Windows development phone! At the time I had several Apps that I had developed in Silverlight with a view to porting... Continue Reading →
With the release of Silverlight 5 I thought I would take this opportunity to demo up an idea I have had to promote Live Tiles for Windows Phone (and Windows 8 I guess)*. The idea is quite simple – a marketplace for Live Tiles for Windows Phone (and Windows 8 maybe). So I have... Continue Reading →
Hard Work, Persistence and Passion . . . . 