Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Optional steps:
10. Create more engaging Live Tiles.
11. Add support for roaming settings and game stats.
12. Support for game controller
13. Add instructions as a Settings charm.
WinJS App Lifecycle
We only touched the surface of the Windows 8 lifecycle for JavaScript apps. Outside of just
tying into the onactivated() call, you may want to better integrate your app into the activate,
suspend, and resume states.
Here are some resources
to better explain this process and how it
works.
Windows Store JavaScript Samples
One of the best resources you will find for Windows 8 HTML5 app development is right in-
side of Visual Studio itself. Simply create a new project and select templates and it will pull
down a list of sample projects covering a wide range of Windows 8 development scenarios
(
Figure 10-1
).
