Windows Phone Development Blog

Emulating Accelerometer Data on the Windows Phone 7 Emulator

July 17, 2010, 11:13 p.m.
Developing applications for the Windows Phone 7 emulator is nice, but it doesn't allow us to emulate GPS or accelerometer sensor data. However, a Windows Mobile phone does include an accelerometer that we can programmatically access (via the Windows Mobile Unified Sensor API for Samsung and HTC devices).

Our workaround is simple. At the center of everything ...

Compass for Windows Mobile

June 19, 2010, 12:33 a.m.
We have just completed work on a compass app for Windows Mobile 6.x devices. It's nothing fancy (although it is much prettier than the other compass app on the Windows Marketplace for Mobile). This will be one of our last programs developed for Windows Mobile - all future efforts will be towards creating apps for the upcoming Windows ...