Adding tilting effect to DailyHoroscope for WP7
We also have added the tilt effect which was a breeze with the provided sample by Microsoft and this tilting effect is very, very nice! We even consider making a separate presentation of it on our blog, to show some really cool tilting effect it produces!
Have a look at it in the video:
Read MoreDailyHoroscope for Windows Phone 7 gets beautiful screen transitions
We have added screen transitions to the DailyHoroscope that should go hand in hand with the main system UI screen transitions.
The system screen transitions are not immediately accessible to developers but developers are welcome to imitate them according to the user interface/user experience guidelines. And it is relatively easy to do so since all the power of SilverLight is at the developer’s fingertips. We have almost no experience with SilverLight and also very little experience with C# – these are the main technologies for Windows Phone 7 development. But with great tools Microsoft released, which are quite intuitive and easy to use and with the great help from the samples and the developer forum, we were able to dive into straight into the open waters of Windows Phone development.
So for the screen transitions, we were referencing this walkthrough by Jeff Brand.
You can see the end result in this video:
P.S. We think the video does not do justice to how it actually looks, as it looks so much better on the simulator and will probably look even better on the device!
Read MoreDailyHoroscope coming to Windows Phone 7 with its launch!
We are glad to let our users know that we already started working on a version of DailyHoroscope to run on the windows phone 7 and we will be launching with the first device, which should be really soon. The rumors are somewhere in October – meaning in just a few weeks!
Here’s the first stub we took, it’s not much but we are working on it and it is starting to take shape. We have to develop relying only on the simulator so far and we can only hope it will look and work the same on the actual devices.
Without further ado, here’s the short video for DailyHoroscope fans!
UPDATE: this was just an initial stub and we continue to work on the app and it should be much nicer when we launch. We have already added some UI niceties. You can see the result of adding screen transitions for DailyHorosocope.
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