Just upgraded to Windows 8.1 from Windows 7 and found that there is no official GMail metro app. MetroMail isn't official, is it?
Anyway, so I was wondering what is required to create a GMail metro app. Does one need to have some kind of a contract with Google for the api?
I am a web developer and a GMail client seems to be a good way to start developing metro apps as well.
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Is it possible to integrate Microsoft Universal Ad Client SDK to a native win32 app?
Does the Ad SDK work also in Win7 or Win8?
I am looking for a solution such as making a small EXE that I call from my application, that will simply display video ads and then quit.
if you're targeting Windows 8 and up, I would suggest to create a Windows Store app hosting the Ad control and launch this app using a custom protocol
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/xaml/Hh779670(v=win.10).aspx
As an example, try to run (Windows+R) this on Windows 8 :
bingmaps:?q=restaurant&where=Paris
Universal SDK can only be referenced on Universal Apps.
As you are asking how to integrate a such SDK on a native Win32 app, you should look for an Ad SDK for native app.
I have developed Windows Phone 8 application and implemented MPNS(Microsoft Push Notification Services).
**I have upgraded the app from Windows Phone 8 version to Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 using Visual Studio 2013, As per this link I found WNS is recommended by Microsoft. As It has evolved with new features and advancements.
But when planned to go with WNS I need to have MOBILE SERVICE as a back-end. something like Microsoft Azure Mobile services, which is payable one.
Contacted Azure Mobile support for the same they say it's for UWP(Universal Windows Apps) if that's the only case, how to proceed with WNS in my upgraded application, or did he explain something wrong?
And also I have obtained Symantec mobile code signing certificate - 299$ can I use the same to signing MPNS and WNS?
To use the WNS notifications in a Windows Phone app built using the MobileFirst tooling, you need to read the documentation. Like this: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSHS8R_7.1.0/com.ibm.worklight.dev.doc/devref/t_setting_up_push_notification_win8.html?lang=en.
It doesn't matter that you're app is a Hybrid app.
In IBM MobileFirst Platform, WNS is applicable only for Universal Windows Apps (as already mentioned) .
To use WNS notifications:
a) if you are using a hybrid application, add a "Windows 8 Universal" environment. The resultant UWP project structure contains a WP8.1 project as well.
b) if native, create your own native Universal C# application. In your MFPF project, add Windows Phone 8 Universal native API.
Is there any sdk available to integrate the google plus in windows phone 8 and windows 8 store app?
Like the facebook sdk is available which makes our life easy to integrate the facebook in our app.
I want sdk which will make my life easy to integrate the google plus with windows 8.
Or
any other solution to integrate google plus with my windows 8 apps.
Thank You.
Gus Class on the Google+ Developer Relations team has done some work around Windows 8 and the .NET client library to show how to do some level of integration with Windows 8. The following is one example of how to authenticate a user and get Google+ data:
http://gusclass.com/blog/2012/11/20/pulling-google-data-into-windows-store-apps/
I am developing Windows Phone 8 application, in which I want to get recommended tracks of the user of Spotify. I would like to add these tracks of the user into favourites of my application.
I need to login and get the track list and details which I can show in my application.
There is Spotify library available for Windows(Win32). Can this library be used for Windows Phone as well??
Please let me know if anyone know how to integrate spotify into Windows Phone.
Thanks,
Manmath
The Win32 libspotify library cannot be used on Windows phone, and the REST-based Web API isn't powerful to do what you're asking. Unfortunately, there isn't a full-featured API available for Windows Phone.
Is there an api that exposes the apps in the windows 7 marketplace as odata, rest, soap or something else programmatically accessible?
Per the comment from #talbottcrowell, Crawling the Windows Phone Marketplace http://brandonwatson.sys-con.com/node/1767886
It's not an official api, but certainly seems to be a blessed way to do it.
there's also great docs as part of the codeplex project zunedata
http://zunedata.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=API%20Documentation