Windows Phone 8 in Action

Preface

We authors come from different backgrounds and locations, but we came together to write this book. Michael is a Silverlight MVP who lives in Singapore; Massimo lives in Europe and worked at Microsoft on the Windows Phone team; Adam lives in Canada and has published several applications in the Windows Phone store; and Timothy lives in the United States and has worked as technical proofreader for other Manning books on WPF and Silverlight. Amid this diversity, our shared passion for XAML and mobile applications brought us together to produce this book.

In 2012, nearly 700 million smartphones were sold across the globe. The world is quickly moving to a fully connected society, and smartphones like the Windows Phone are already playing ...