+1 billion downloads from the Windows Phone Store in six months
Today there is a whole set of development news for the Windows Phone mobile platform.
Let's start with the most tangible - the growth of downloads of your applications in the Windows Phone Store.
Today, their total number has exceeded 2 billion downloads. What is especially nice - the second billion turned out less than six months after the first and 5 times faster than the first!
In addition, we have made important innovations for both future developers and existing ones.
Beta version of Windows Phone App Studio - a new tool for creating applications for beginners has become available today. You can make it right in the browser and then download it to your phone without having to register as a developer, work with the source code and post this personal application to the public Windows Phone Store.
All you need to do is to select one of the ready-made application templates, set up a name, text fields, select resources (for example, an RSS feed), load the necessary pictures ... and the application is ready! In the case of desire and need, you can download the source code of the resulting application and work with it further in Visual Studio.
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When you (or your budding friends) are ready to download the app to Store, do not forget that a large summer discount is valid until August 26 - the annual subscription price is only $ 19 (instead of the usual $ 99).
Let me remind you that students and startups can get a one-year subscription absolutely free of charge - through the DreamSpark and BizSpark programs.
If you are already an existing developer on Windows Phone, now in case of problems or issues you can communicate with the support service in real time via online chat .
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Of course, this feature is valid in English during the working day in the USA (and in China, but this is hardly interesting for Habr's readers :))
And finally, good news for developers from Kazakhstan (as well as Costa Rica, Cyprus, Lebanon, Malta and Trinidad and Tobago). Now you can post free and paid applications in the Windows Phone Store and receive money earned from the Store.
And users from 191 countries can download applications from the Windows Phone Store!
We will tell all this and much more in detail on September 12 at our big Windows Camp event - leave registration requests right now!
Let's start with the most tangible - the growth of downloads of your applications in the Windows Phone Store.
Today, their total number has exceeded 2 billion downloads. What is especially nice - the second billion turned out less than six months after the first and 5 times faster than the first!
In addition, we have made important innovations for both future developers and existing ones.
Beta version of Windows Phone App Studio - a new tool for creating applications for beginners has become available today. You can make it right in the browser and then download it to your phone without having to register as a developer, work with the source code and post this personal application to the public Windows Phone Store.
All you need to do is to select one of the ready-made application templates, set up a name, text fields, select resources (for example, an RSS feed), load the necessary pictures ... and the application is ready! In the case of desire and need, you can download the source code of the resulting application and work with it further in Visual Studio.
')
When you (or your budding friends) are ready to download the app to Store, do not forget that a large summer discount is valid until August 26 - the annual subscription price is only $ 19 (instead of the usual $ 99).
Let me remind you that students and startups can get a one-year subscription absolutely free of charge - through the DreamSpark and BizSpark programs.
If you are already an existing developer on Windows Phone, now in case of problems or issues you can communicate with the support service in real time via online chat .
.Of course, this feature is valid in English during the working day in the USA (and in China, but this is hardly interesting for Habr's readers :))
And finally, good news for developers from Kazakhstan (as well as Costa Rica, Cyprus, Lebanon, Malta and Trinidad and Tobago). Now you can post free and paid applications in the Windows Phone Store and receive money earned from the Store.
And users from 191 countries can download applications from the Windows Phone Store!
We will tell all this and much more in detail on September 12 at our big Windows Camp event - leave registration requests right now!
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/189256/
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