After seeing a great XBOX360 friends Iphone App I decided to build a Windows Mobile version of it. The app shows your friends, their avatar, online status and what they are playing. After downloading the VS plugins for Windows Mobile development I started building the app. Building Windows Mobile Apps is easy. The only thing you need to know is that you can never build a application which have the same user experience and GUI as a Iphone. Maybe Windows Mobile 7 and XAML will fix this. Here is result of one night programming. Clearly it is not finished but it`s a fun app. The application features are:
- friend overview, see status of your friends
- settings page, where you can set the polling time
- An exit button, to clear te memory.
- It even gives an alert when a friend comes online.
What I would like to add:
- XML for your friendlist (it is hard coded now)
Here are some screenshots of the application. And you can download the sourcecode here.
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