I’m pleased to announce that ATM Finder has finally reached sunlight and now app is also available for Windows 8 platform.
It was a long path to get app out to the Windows Store.
Application was developed using Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 8 operating system. User interface tests and debugging was performed on Samsung Slate series 7 device with Visual Studio 2012 Remote Debugging feature that really worked :)
At the moment application supports x86 and x64 processor architectures and ARM is coming.
As a developer you have to get used to WinRT runtime and .Net Framework subset for Windows 8. You have to understand and really leverage asynchrony exposed by the API. New C# and .Net Framework features using async/await keywords made consuming asynchronous WinRT components and API really easy.
User interface development was very similar found during app development for Windows Phone platform. Experience gained during Windows Phone development really helped a lot during Windows 8 application development (I could even share some of the components between these two platforms).
As a developer I would recommend to pay *a lot* attention and focus on application description and every other small detail before submitting the app for Windows Store certification (I did it more than twice).
More development centric posts are coming about experience and outcomes during development process for Windows 8 platform..
If you have Windows 8 I would be glad if you try out ATM Finder for Windows 8.
App could be found: http://bit.ly/atmfinderw8.
Thanks!
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