I recently wrote a four part article about how to build a simple count down timer app using HTML5 and Windows Phone.  The articles covered getting started with HTML5 and Windows Phone, multiple resolutions, using the WebBrowser control to ‘talk’ to web page and finally getting ready for Windows Phone Store certification.

Here is the result of the articles.

Here is a list of the articles available for easy reference

1. XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone Sample
2. XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone Sample: Multiple Resolutions
3. XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone Sample: WebBrowser Control
4. XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone Sample: Store Certification

As for the source code, if you want to run it yourself you can download the #xboxreveal source code from GitHub.

Hope it was useful and please leave comments or questions!

In this final article of the XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone sample, I’ll be going through some of the things you need to do as a developer to get ready for Windows Store Certification.

If you have not read the previous articles, here is a list for some background

1. XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone Sample
2. XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone Sample: Multiple Resolutions
3. XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone Sample: WebBrowser Control

Getting Ready for Store

The first thing you want to do to get ready for Windows Phone Store certification is read the App Certification Requirements for Windows Phone article on MSDN.  Lucky for the people who don’t like going through the entire document (like me 🙂 the Windows Phone SDK comes with a Store Test Kit to help go through the cert process.

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Over the past few months we have been doing a lot of Windows 8 development but using HTML5 and JavaScript instead of C# and XAML. Unfortunately Windows Phone does not have built in support for WinJS but what it does have the latest IE 10 browser on board plus we have the WebBrowser control available.

Recently, with the XBox announcement, we decided to build out a Windows Phone app that counts down to the reveal date which looks as follows. We have the app in certification as of May 3 2013 (submitted April 30), but is still going through the process. As I don’t expect it to pass because of the XBox logo usage, decided to make a tutorial out of it. But for all those enthusiast (and developers), you can grab the source and install on your Windows Phone.

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