Chapter 5. Location-aware News App — PacktNews

Hyperlocal applications and websites such as AOL's Patch.com provide precise and accurate news up to the neighborhood level, based on the user's location. In this chapter, we will learn to build a location-aware news application for Windows Phone 7.5—titled PacktNews — using AOL's Patch News API.

This chapter covers:

• Understanding the Patch News API

• Consuming the Patch News API — HelloNews

• Building the PacktNews app using the Silverlight for Windows Phone 7.5 Pivot control

Understanding the Patch News API

AOL's Patch.com is a hyperlocal news portal that provides comprehensive and trusted local content to its users, and is powered by editors, writers, photographers, and videographers who live nearby.

Patch has a huge editorial team as well as freelance bloggers that help create original content, and which is published to a network of more than 850 sites. Patch local content includes news, events, business listings, photos, videos, and announcements...