I see this control (below photo) on Windows 8.1 Store app. It appears when have multi images, tap left and right button (red borders in photo) to navigate between images.
So my question is: Name of this control and link to tutorial?
Its FlipView, here is the docs from MS: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/controls-and-patterns/flipview
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I have created a Universal app for Windows 10. I use Visual Studio 2015 RTM and in Manifest > Visual Effects, I placed my icon in the 24x24 square box. It is transparent, I can see it in Photoshop and also in Visual Studio, in Visual Effects page. The background in manifest is also set to "transparent".
When I run the app, the icon appears in the Windows task bar, but it is not transparent and it used the blue color as background.
Make sure when you click that the picture in the 44x44 logo for 24x24 size it says:
Note: The tile background color is shown through transparent sections of this image.
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It's also a good idea to follow this File name format if you don't want the system to put a backplate on your icon:
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I'm starting with developing on Windows phone 8.1. I've been working with the different image assets for logos and tiles, but have not been able to identify the one that is displayed when you go to the list of open apps (i.e. pressing and holding the back key). In this view there is a logo of the app in the bottom-left corner that I don't know from where it comes. I'm trying to change the background color of it, but is none of the ones define in the manifest. I've seen apps that have this image with a specific background color (i.e. not transparent) like the one in the screenshot below. So, there must be a way to do it, but I'm not able to find where or how.
That would be the application icon you set in your WMAppManifest.xml. You can find this under your project's Properties folder. You can set icon from the UI (App icon) or by editing the XML block itself.
<IconPath IsRelative="true" IsResource="false">Assets\ApplicationIcon.png</IconPath>
This is the same icon that is shown in phone's app list. If image has transparency, phone's selected accent color is shown as "background". If not, well.. then it won't be transparent :).
Is the image slider that the Windows 8 Camera app uses available as a control within the framework? It has nice transitions between images and provides previous and next buttons.
There is callisto refernce in nuget there you can find flipview like windows 8 app store
There is a FlipView control if you are referring to that.
You have some similar controls already built-in, such as FlipView if you want the previous and next buttons.
But if you want all the features in the image gallery application (with zooming capabilities), you will have to create your own component. I did, and it was quite painful, but sadly I did not have the time to package it properly to share with the community. Maybe someone else did it.
Before windows 8, if application want to non-intrusively inform user that something happens, it displays tray icon, maybe animated. For example, if e-mail application finds a new e-mail, it displays a new tray icon (outlook) or animate it's own icon in tray (all other e-mail clients).
With new Windows 8 Metro UI it's a new screen with tiles that supposed to be a main thing user will use to launch and switch apps. Where is no tray area in this mode, but many other things - charms area, something like status area that displays clock and battery usage etc.
According to Microsoft Metro UI design guides - what is the new place for poor e-mail app notification icon?
I think what you want is a notification. There are three kinds of notifications: a tile update, a badge update on the tile or a "toast" in the upper right corner of the screen (when in another application). The various options for these types of notifications are listed here.
The new place to let someone know your app has updated information is the tile itself.
These are called "Live Tiles" because they're intended to be dynamic, and change as new data becomes available.
http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-feature-focus-tiles-143175
I am developing a metro application using visual studio 2012. I am trying to get an AppBar in my metro application. How do I do that?
There are a LOT of samples in the MSDN Dev Center, http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsapps. One of them is specifically an AppBar sample, and the description reads:
This sample demonstrates how to use the AppBar control to present
navigation, commands, and tools to users.
The app bar is hidden by default and appears when users swipe a finger
from the top or bottom edge of the screen. It covers the content of
the app and can be dismissed by the user with an edge swipe, or by
interacting with the app. This sample shows how to add an app bar,
customize the app bar, and control the app bar. Also, it shows how to
use sticky app bars and global app bars.
I think this will get you started.