Pro Windows Phone App Development by Rob Cameron

Author:Rob Cameron
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Apress®
Published: 2011-12-10T16:00:00+00:00

System Tray

The system tray appears at the top of the screen in portrait mode. Figure 5-2 is a clip from the Windows Phone Design Template file named StatusBar_PSD.psd, which shows possible status information.

Figure 5-2. Windows Phone system tray indicators

The Windows Phone development guidelines recommend leaving the system tray visible within applications, because it shows useful information without having to force the user to exit the application. The system tray does take up a little bit of screen real estate, so for games and media players, it makes sense to disable the system tray.

The system tray can be disabled on a page-by-page basis by editing the phone:PhoneApplicationPage element and setting shell:SystemTray.IsVisible to False.

This concludes our discussion of device information. Next up is application data persistence using isolated storage on Windows Phone 7.

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