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

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

by Christopher MANEU

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Deezer for Windows Store Gizmodo Engage

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

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

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All your music, on every device…

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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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Debugging Sandbox ? What sandbox ?

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

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Thanks! maneu.net/gizmodoengage