Building the PacktNews app using the Silverlight for Windows Phone 7.5 Pivot control
Now that we have learnt how to use the Patch News API, let us move ahead to build our PacktNews app using the Windows Phone Pivot control. We will use a free icon from http://findicons.com/icon/169293/news?id=376465# for the PacktNews app.
It is also a good idea to have a look at the taxonomy (in other words, category structure) of the Patch News API. There are two levels of taxonomy supported: category and subcategory level, as shown in the following table:
|
Taxonomy type |
Category |
Subcategory |
|---|---|---|
|
Vertical |
news |
national |
|
local | ||
|
crime | ||
|
politics-and-political-analysis | ||
|
opinion | ||
|
lifestyle |
activism | |
|
arts-and-entertainment | ||
|
crafts | ||
|
fashion | ||
|
food-and-restaurants | ||
|
nightlife | ||
|
shopping | ||
|
real-estate | ||
|
health | ||
|
travel | ||
|
recreation | ||
|
parenting-family-and-children | ||
|
personal | ||
|
religion | ||
|
community | ||
|
education |
colleges-and-universities | |
|
high-schools | ||
|
libraries | ||
|
business |
finance ... |
