Gizmodo Engage Hamburg - What does it takes to build Deezer for Windows Store

More info on http://www.gizmodo.de/2013/06/18/gizmodo-ladt-dich-am-20-6-nach-hamburg-ein.html

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1. Deezer
   for Windows Store
   Gizmodo Engage
   

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2. Hi, I’m
   Christopher Maneu
   Mobile UI Engineer, Deezer
   @cmaneu
   cmaneu
   maneu.net
   

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4. +25M
   Tracks Unlimited
   radios
   Deezer
   picks
   2
   subscriptions
   for unlimited
   access
   

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5. All your music, on every device…
   

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6. Why Windows 8/Store
   • Deezer website runs on Internet Explorer (Metro mode/desktop
   mode)
   • Experience is not great:
   • No audio keyboard keys support
   • Not optimized for touch
   • Power cost
   • A great potential
   • +100M users WW
   • New great devices to enjoy your music
   

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8. 
   

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9. Debugging
   Sandbox ? What sandbox ?
   

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10. Performance
    • Test your app on a WinRT device,
    • Test your app on a WinRT device,
    • Test your app on a WinRT device,
    • (and don’t trust virtualization)
    

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11. Architecture & Portability
    • NO portable class libraries
    • Two differents projects,
    • Linked files and #if NETFX_CORE
    • Bcl.build.async and httpclient
    • MVVM (but removing ViewModels is planned)
    • ~75% « model » code reused
    

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12. What’s next ?
    New windows phone 8 app
    (this summer)
    Windows 8 (8.1) v2
    

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13. Thanks!
    maneu.net/gizmodoengage
    

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