Windows® Phone 7.5 Unleashed

Chapter 3. Application Execution Model

In This Chapter

• Application life cycle events

• Application and page state

• Running under the lock screen

• Page navigation

• Image caching

• Splash screen and loading indicator creation

• Design-time data

• Bookshop sample application

Understanding the events within the life cycle of a Windows Phone application is critical to providing an optimal user experience on the phone. The phone’s single application process model means that your app may be interrupted and terminated at any time. It is your responsibility to maintain the appearance of continuity across interruptions, to save your app’s state whenever an interruption occurs, and, if necessary, restore the state when the user returns to your app. ...