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If you want help Rob Miles has produced a screencast to walk you through the process. You can also create an 'empty app' without a template and this is only slightly more difficult.

All you have is select the appropriate template add content - images, videos, RSS and Twitter feeds - choose and links, with a layout preview that shows exactly how it will appear and behave on your phone.

To make app creation even easier there are supplied template - currently 13 of them including My Family, and ones for weddings, sports teams, hobbies, film and restaurant reviews. It provides an environment in which creating an app become a four-step process: It also can radically accelerate workflow for all developers.

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Windows Phone App Studio is about giving everyone the ability to create an app regardless of experience. Will this be enough to tempt developers to create apps, and will this in turn attract users to the platform?Īccording to the Windows Phone Developer Blog:

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On last count, Microsoft claimed there were 160,000 apps in the Windows Phone Store, compared to more than 900,000 in Apple's App Store and roughly 1,000,000 Android apps in Google Play.Microsoft has launched Windows Phone App Studio. Still, this might be as good a means as any to drum up more interest in the Windows Phone developer ecosystem – and more interest is something Microsoft certainly could use. But even this seems like an unlikely scenario, given how uniform and unimaginative the generated app UIs look. Microsoft suggests that more-experienced developers can use the App Studio for 'rapid prototyping,' then enhance their apps by adding additional features by hand in Visual Studio.

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It's hard to imagine that Windows Phone owners would want to install many of these, rather than just pulling up the corresponding web page in their mobile browsers. The intended end product doesn't seem to be much more than 'brochureware' – like a web site that offers a few pages of information but no real interactive content. While this is all well and good, however, this Reg hack can't help note that the apps produced by the App Studio are fairly crude. Redmond has priced a year's Dev Center subscription at $19 (or the equivalent outside the US) – down from $99 – through August 26. You'll still need to join Microsoft's developer program to upload your app to the Windows Phone Store, but if you move fast, you can do so at a discount. Registered developers can unlock up to three devices and load as many as 10 test apps on each. But beginning on Tuesday, Microsoft is allowing anyone to unlock and register a single Windows Phone as a testing device and load up to two apps on it, without joining the developer program. In the past, you'd need to have registered as a Windows Phone developer to install apps onto your own device. When you're done, the tool will export your app in a file format that can either be uploaded to the Windows Phone store or installed on your own phone for testing. While you're putting your app together and assigning content feeds, the tool shows your progress with a WYSIWYG layout preview that updates with each new change you make. Your next million-dollar app is just a few clicks away – million dollars not included