Been out on a hunting trip for a while now and I have caught a new game thus Windows
Phone Development. I was just wondering why
it was hard to find a developer interested in developing windows phone
apps. So I took a tour in to that forest and guess what I was amazed by the prospects and ease of the platform. The
use of the c# language got me fascinated as I got to the ways of this I would say well-crafted language. Don’t get it
twisted coming from a Java background
had some bad prejudice about the .NET platform and C# in general but a
sorry to say “I had to eat humble Pie” I got blown away .At least the type
inference handling really got me impressed since it is not a “First Class
citizen in Java. I still love java but I give credit where it is due at least
they just released the use of lambda expressions in Java 8 and that’s cool just
that it has been in C# for like "100yrs" you get me now. No pun
intended Java is still my first love I
still like using jsp and jsf for my web applications and hanging out with
android once in a while but the ease of the .NET windows phone framework seems to make the whole android thing look
complex for nothing (that’s an argument for another day my android gurus around) .
So I decided to build a few apps and one of them is “Share ACoke Unofficial App”. Guess you heard of that promo which was done by coke some
time back. As usual it got an app on
the Play Store and I also wanted to
share a coke with my friend’s name on it using my Nokia Lumia checked the windows phone store for about a
month could not get one to download so it
dawned on me to build my mine after what use am I for being a software
developer and not build apps I will use myself. I decided to put it on the
store after I was done and using it I
was amazed by the amount of downloads
and reviews I got in a week of deploying the app to the windows phone app store…hehehhehe so other
people also had the same problem.
I called it “Share A Coke Unofficial”
These are some of the
screenshots
