It’s been quite a while… know that I’m busy porting everything from SL to WinRT 🙂 Now, another major feature has been ported over wholesale — searching. First thing first, the new design. To put it simply, more unified design elements. Now let’s move on. Featuring the same “grid” layout that already been deployed extensively […]

And Indulged 3 development is on fire 🙂 Today a quick port from the 2.x code base became the foundation of the 3.0 user profile page. The hub view never looked so beautiful! Features: Wide “light theme” banner. It’s now scrollable! Beautiful and elegant gradients The overhauled magazine style photo stream Unfortunately, the Flickr API still doesn’t […]

With new capabilities such as Flyouts being introduced in WinRT, the composing workflow has been greatly simplified. In the 2.x code base, I needed to maintain dedicated (and complex) composer components and sync with Page elements such as backgrounds and AppBar. With flyouts, most logic is baked in already, resulting a more streamlined and unified […]

Today I’m able to add a new detail page to Indulged 3. The new detail page features a cleaner design, which consists of large clear typefaces, unclustered “sections”, and rich info of the photo. Sections will include: Basic info (title, description, view count, author, favorite status and license) EXIF data Tags Reviews As of today, […]

After a long time, I finally decided to pick up with blogging 🙂 But before I start writing posts, I need to build home pages for two of my published Windows Phone apps: Indulged and Hue. For guys who don’t know these two (but love stuffing their Windows Phone with cool apps), here’re some descriptions I […]