My WP7 development path-3 months later

Thank you, Zhang Lei.
-- When I was a graduate student at Jiaotong University, he told Nokia and Microsoft to hold the spring phone program. Without the news, I did not participate in this activity, at the same time, I would also like to thank him for his help in cloud computing Azure, and my wife for her support for WP7 development, my first Lumia 800 red version was bought with her support. Although Lumia 800 is the most expensive of my mobile phones, she still supports me to buy one, at that time, Nokia's Lumia had not arrived in mainland China, and she was still using an android cell phone with less than 1000 yuan. Finally, I had to thank Nokia and Microsoft for this spring phone activity. Without this activity, there would be no second Lumia 800 mobile phone (blue edition), just red for my wife, and blue for me, unfortunately, her card number is Telecom, but it does not affect the happy atmosphere.

 

After learning to thank foreigners, I began to briefly talk about the feelings of developing WP7 applications.

 

1. Seize the opportunity

From the previous blog (February 17) to the present (May 16), it has been around three months. As of now, it has been released on the market.Program5 (3 of them are charged, 2 are free), 4 are under review (3 of them are updated, and 1 is submitted). Do not send too many requests. Now let's think about it. Although it's not much, I can breathe a sigh of relief. Three months ago, I almost started playing WP7 development from scratch, except that C # is not a foundation of 0. At present, developers have learned a lot.

The second biggest concern is that WP7 was developed very quickly. Since I bought a mobile phone on New Year's Day this year, there were not many Chinese applications at that time, and now it has sprung up, who is ahead, who is likely to win, of course, does not rule out the excellent future.

 

2. Learn more and use more

At the beginning, because Android and apple are very mature in China, and WP7 has not yet entered the Chinese market, it was learned that this year is about to go public in China, just in, the first lumia800 was listed in Hong Kong and sold so hot that I had to find an idea to develop WP7 applications. With this purpose, I wanted to log on first, so at the end, I can only write some practical applications. It can be helpful, at least to make myself feel useful. For example, I like to listen to finance and economics at night, but online broadcasts are often not at that point. I usually do not use computers or on-demand videos on the road or outside, so I made a financial and financial night-reading favorites that can be on demand by mobile phones, so you can listen at any location and at any time. Therefore, the final feeling is that, as an amateur developer, I am developing some applications that my friends hope to use in their spare time, that is, personalized applications, which are not widely used, the value of a small application has been reflected by the help of some people.

 

3. Focus on Creativity

If you discover that technology is not a problem, you can go to the Forum for help or search (I suggest you search for English). The problem lies in good creativity.

However, it is not easy to think about things. Some unique ideas are really difficult, and almost all the ideas on the market can be thought.

 

4. Test phase

When submitting an application, I feel that the test process must be carefully tested. However, I really admire Microsoft's testing team. I will repeat some minor problems and write down the detailed reproduction steps, you can modify it, so we have also developed a pre-submission test that passes the test in different environments, topics, and languages, and there are networks and no networks, and then gradually found that one-time submission can be released, but I feel that the cycle is a little longer, please wait patiently.

 

5. Balance of Payments

Although it has been three months since the first application was launched on Valentine's day and only 416 downloads have been made today, it is quite interesting to develop these applications, and many Chinese users prefer to use them for free, "despise" paid applications. In fact, from the developer's perspective, you still need to rent servers and spend money. Individual developers do not make money. In short, paid software ensures that there is no crash, no advertisement, no information with the app, high-quality, and high experience. Generally, you are charged for trial use. Trial use cannot be too restrictive or malicious, otherwise, the user cannot try it out. My trial is almost the same as the full version. I use my own software. In fact, I like to try it out because I can order advertisements to balance my income and expenditure. For individual developers, it is really difficult to earn money. For the purpose of making money, you cannot make a fortune, unless one of your applications is like angry birds, but Angry Birds is not an individual behind it, so personally, I am interested. I can use it for my friends, for those who want to use it, and for those who are willing to pay for it. I am very happy that you can try it out if you don't want it.

 

6. About live ID:

Another question that has plagued me for a long time is the permission to download the marketplace app on mobile phones,

In fact, when you log on to and use marketplace for the first time, you will be asked to select a country. Then, this country determines the permission of the country where you use the Market app. When I set it for the first time, I don't know what's going on. I chose Unite States in a confused way. I can't fill in my credit card now,

Http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/t/104264.aspx
You cannot purchase any billing procedures. I have consulted many people before and found that they are related to the live ID. In addition, pay attention to the use of an ID, do not change often, generally paid or changed to pay after the use of free, this app even if you have bought, when you download an app that has been purchased, you will be prompted: "You 've already purchased this app. wocould you like to install it again? ", So don't worry, I like to download the latest software trial in the market, whether it is free or paid, and then keep it, and unload it! So I also wrote a tool crawler to crawl the latest Microsoft App list.