Are the Application life cycles for Windows phone 7 and 8 the same?

Question

Are the Application life cycles for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 the same? If not, please guide me to the differences in the application life cycles of both.

Answer 1

They are the same. MSDN article on app activation and deactivation has a note:

Applies to Windows Phone 8 | Windows Phone OS 7.1