What control is used in the Kindle for Windows Phone 7

Question

I was wondering what control Amazon used to display text in its Windows Phone 7 app? This should be something normal, because if I remember correctly, WPD does not support FlowDocument, Run, etc.

Answer 1

<Run> supported on WindowsPhone7 - for example, http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-SG/wpf/thread/ca27556a-a33b-4d4e-82b4-a0ed8596d6a1 - you can see that Run is used in many applications - for example. official Twitter app.

This question - Software Definition of max fit in a text box (WP7) - analyzes the Kindle UI control a bit - it makes me think that Amazon uses TextBlock controls for the main page and performs manual calculations to determine the number of words on the current page.

Answer 2

Kindle ebooks are primarily HTML (conversion output from several formats ), so this will be some kind of WebBrower control.

Answer 3

They did not publish it publicly.

I strongly suspect that they have their own controls to wrap the canvas, which they dynamically fill with text, and then animate their own manipulation code.