Occasionally Connected Windows Mobile Apps: Consumer

Consumers expect their app to work well both offline and online. In this course, you'll learn how to design a compelling consumer experience, and you'll also learn the patterns to build it.

Nowadays, an app's capability to work online and offline is essential to users. This course, Occasionally Connected Windows Mobile Apps: Consumer, will teach you how to design an app that caches data while offline and keeps track of the consumer's actions. You'll also learn how to send that data to the server without user intervention when they reconnect. You'll discover how to give the server the agency to act on the user's behalf, as well as use that data to provide a continuous experience across devices. Finally, you'll be able to put all of these patterns into practice in a Universal Windows App that will get 5-star reviews. By the end of this course, you'll be able to design great apps that operate perfectly whether they're online or not.

• Course Overview 1min
• Designing Compelling Consumer Experiences 16mins
• Isolating Mobile Clients from Data Services 30mins
• Updating an Offline Mobile Cache 14mins
• Separating Client and Server Responsibilities 38mins
• Continuing the Experience Across Devices 28mins