WP7 Statistics & Frameworks

1. WP7 Statistics & Frameworks By @JustinAngel, baynetug.org

4. What is this talk about? • Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Stats • Prerequisites: WP7 & Silverlight • Research Methodology • Interesting Statistics • Quick Overview • Top frameworks • Based on @ JustinAngel.net/WindowsPhone7MarketplaceStatistics

5. Research Methodology • Downloaded WP7 Marketplace on 8/15 • Marketplace APIs described publicly • Unzipped the downloaded XAPs • Asked some questions • Got answers

10. Stat #0: How many apps? • Found 24,505 apps

11. Stat #1: Obfuscation • 14.5% of apps are obfuscated

12. Stat #2: Silverlight, XNA

13. Stat #3: C#, VB.Net or F#

14. Stat #4: Cloned apps

15. Stat #4: Cloned apps

16. Stat #4: Cloned Apps • Common issue in all application stores • There are reasons to ship cloned apps • Lite / Full / Trial / Free versions • Books / Magazines • DIY Apps • etc

17. Stat #5: All Publishers percentage

18. Stat #5: Top Publishers percentage

19. Stat #6: Privileges

20. Stat #7: Frameworks • What are real devs using in real apps? • Adoption is a good indicator of quality, applicability & usability. • Cut the FUD on frameworks. • 25 Lightening overviews. • +30 bullet points.

21. Fx #1: WP7 Controls SDK • Microsoft.Phone.Controls.dll is used 14,848 apps. • Contains Pivot and Panorama controls.

22. Fx #2: Silverlight Toolkit • Microsoft’s Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 is used by 11,169 apps. • Transitions • TiltEffect • TimePicker • ToggleSwitch • WrapPanel • Performance-ProgressBar • AutoCompleteBox • ContextMenu • DatePicker • ExpanderView • GestureService • HubTile • ListPicker • LockablePivot • LoopingSelector • LongListSelector • MultiselectList • PhoneTextBox

23. Fx #2: Silverlight Toolkit

24. Fx #3: Blend Behaviours • Microsoft Expression Blend Behaviours, Triggers & Actions are used by 6,010 apps. • Great for designers working with XAML. • “XAML Extensions methods”. • Added on other UI elements.

25. Fx #4: Microsoft Ads • Microsoft’s Advertising ADK for Windows Phone is used by 5,760 apps. • Monetize on apps using pubCenter. • Best of breed Ads WP7 UX, API, support and documentation.

26. Fx #5: Bing Maps WP7 • Microsoft’s Bing Maps SDK for Windows Phone 7 is used by 2,235 apps. • Great UX, great API, great docs. • Requires Bing Maps key.

27. Fx #6: LazyListBox LoadedItemTemplate ItemTemplate • Mirosoft’s Peter TorrLazyListbox is used by 1,364 apps. • WP7 NoDo had terrible ListBox performance. • LazyListBox shows ItemTemplate while LoadedItemTemplate is loading.

28. Fx #7: Html Agility Pack • Simon Mourier’s HTML Agility Pack is used by 1,331 apps. • Allows to scrape, scan and fix HTML pages with XPathand Linq queries. • Handles malformed HTML. • Generates HTML from DOM tree.

29. Fx #8: MVVM Light Toolkit • Laurent Bugnion’s MVVM Light Toolkit is used by 1,320 apps. • Very basic toolkit supporting MVVM. • Messenger – Loosely coupled event bus. • EventToCommand– Blend Behaviour that fires ICommands on events. • RelayCommand– Simple ICommand.

30. Fx#9: Flurry Analytics • Flurry Analytics for Windows Phone 7 is used by 1,283 apps. • Requires Flurry account. • Really big with Android and iPhone apps analytics. Organizations with existing mobile apps love Flurry.

31. Fx #10: JSON.net • James NewtonJSON.net is used by 1,082 apps. • Linq to JSON. • JSON Serializerand JSON Deserializer. • WCF JSON serializeris incredibly slow and is considered a worst practice.

32. Fx #11: Coding 4fun tools • Microsoft’s Clint Rutkas's Coding4Fun Tools is used by 800 apps. • About Prompt • Color Hexagon • Color Picker • Color Slider • Input Prompt • Message Prompt • Memory Counter • Password Prompt • Progress Overlay • Round Button • Round Toggle • Super Slider • TimeSpan Picker • Toast Prompt • Value Converters • Binding Helpers

33. Fx #11: Coding 4fun tools

34. Fx #12: Hammock • Daniel Crenna’s Hammock is used by 741 apps. • REST Requests framework supporting: Async, Retry, Caching, Authentication, Tracing, Serialization and Validation.

35. Fx #13: Phone Perf Helpers • David Anson’s Phone Performance Helpers are used by 705 apps. • WP7 NoDo had terrible Listbox Perf. • DeferredLoadListBox and LowProfileImageLoader are great for ListBoxes with Images.

36. Fx #14: WCF RSS • System.ServiceModel.Syndication.dll is being used by 670 apps. • Parses (or generates) RSS and ATOM into strongly-typed classes and support LINQ querying.

37. Fx #15: SSME • Microsoft’s Smooth Streaming Media Element is used by 604 apps. • Using SSME with IIS Smooth Streaming provides video adaptive streaming over HTTP. • Contains heuristics to change bitrates based on network conditions and client properties.

38. Fx #16: Facebook C# SDK • Jim Zimmerman and Microsoft’s Nathan Totten’s Facebook C# SDK is used by 603 apps. • Fully featured framework to access Facebook data, OAuth and actions.

39. Fx #17: Telerik WP7 SDK • Telerik Windows Phone 7 SDK is used by 557 apps. • Commercial controls SDK. • Animations • ApplicationFrame • BusyIndicator • BulletGraph • Calendar • Chart • DataBoundListBox • DatePicker • DateSelector • DockPanel • Gauge • JumpList • LayoutTransform • ListPicker • LoopingList • MessageBox • NumericUpDown • PickerBox • TimePicker • TimeSelector • TransitionControl • UniformGrid • Window • WrapPanel

40. Fx #17: Telerik WP7 SDK

41. Fx #18: Google AdMob • Google AdMob ADK for Windows Phone 7 is used by 542 apps.

42. Fx #19: ImageTools • Sebastian Stehle’sImageToolsis used by 490 apps. • Loads and saves PNG, JPEG, BMP & GIF. • Applies Effects (Rotate, Flip) and filters (Sepia, Invert, GreyScale, Contrast, Brightness and Blur). • Supports reading Barcodes.

43. Fx #20: Silverlight Toolkit • Microsoft’s Silverlight Toolkit for Desktop is used by 484 apps. • Not supported on WP7.

44. Fx #21: #ziplib • SharpDevelop’s #ziplib is used by 432 apps. • Supports ZIP, FastZip, TAR and GZip file extraction and creation.

45. FX #22: MEF • Microsoft’s Managed Extensibility Frameworks is used by 398 apps. • An IoC framework that doesn’t like to be called an IoC framework.

46. Fx #23: Analytics Framework • Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework by Michael Scherotter is used by 373 apps. • Supports Google Analytics, WebTrendsand 5 additional analytics providers. • Supported by UI controls and Blend.

47. Fx #24: Tombstone Helper • Matt Lacey’s Tombstone Helper • Stores state for TextBox, PasswordBox, CheckBox, RadioButton, Slider, ListBox, and ScrollViewer with a x:Name property .

48. Fx #25: Sterling OODB • Jeremy Likness’s Sterling Object Oriented Database is used by 294 apps. • Client-side OODB storing in IsoStore. • Fast and compact.

49. Fx #26 – Fx #29 • Microsoft’s XML Serialization. • Alan Mendelevich’sAdDuplex SDK: WP7-only Ads library • Noah Hart’s C#-SQLite on WP7. • DavideZordan, Laurent Bugnion and David Kelley’s WP7 MultiTouch Blend behaviours.

50. Fx #30 – Fx #34 • José Ángel’s Widget Library for WP7: Enables WP7 HTML apps. • Microsoft’s Media Platform Player Framework for WP7: Fully-featured Video player. • Daniel Crenna’sTweetSharp: Twitter framework for WP7. • Microsoft’s WCF Data Services: Consume OData services.