Clarity Comics Comic Reader for Windows Phone 7

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Published on Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT Indexed on 2010/05/12 0:55 UTC
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Weve been really busy building all sorts custom Windows Phone 7 goodies lately. One of the experiences weve been working on recently is a comic book reader for WP7. Here at Clarity we have particular individuals that are nuts about comics and codingso it was a no-brainer to knock this thing out.

Under the Covers

There are a couple of components to this application that made it come together quickly.

First, as you know, WP7 runs Silverlight so we were able to leverage a bunch of silverlight assets we had hanging around from previous projects. We were shocked to see the 80% code reuse claim was true!

Second, the application was built on the newly created Clarity Phone Framework (CP7). This framework provides a platform that we can leverage to quickly wire up applications and get them out the door. The framework includes gesture support, mapping controls, data visualization, a special mvvm architecture for the phone, navigation animations, and a handful of other controls weve cooked up in our labslike voice recognition support. (additional posts on the framework are coming soon)

Third, the reading experience of the comic reader is driven by Deep Zoom. We were pleasantly surprised to see that the windows phone 7 sdk worked nicely with Deep Zoom and the Deep Zoom composer. We did have to add some hooks in there to get the gestures to work, but nothing too deep (no pun intended).

Unfortunately we cant release the code for this one just yet. But rest-assured, there will be plenty more Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight goodies to come.

Cheers!

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