Part of Metro style design is building clean views that allow content
to shine and help users accomplish their tasks. We explore in
particular how you can create beautiful galleries with content from
user’s files and folders on the local file system. Being able to display
local content is a key requirement for many gallery apps that let users
browse and consume their content – photos, videos, music, or documents.
Windows 8 provides tools to do this in a simple, efficient, and
customizable way.
To show this I’ll take the example of the PhotoJournal app, a connected photo journal where users can view and manage their photos and videos using a timeline view. In the next figure, you can see the landing page of the app. A typical example of a view that this app creates over the file system is a timeline view, which shows photos recently published in the app and stored in the app’s local data folder. Another is a search results view that lets the user find specific photos. In this post, I’ll go through the two steps the app takes to build these views:
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To show this I’ll take the example of the PhotoJournal app, a connected photo journal where users can view and manage their photos and videos using a timeline view. In the next figure, you can see the landing page of the app. A typical example of a view that this app creates over the file system is a timeline view, which shows photos recently published in the app and stored in the app’s local data folder. Another is a search results view that lets the user find specific photos. In this post, I’ll go through the two steps the app takes to build these views:
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