I'm new to windows phone, and I don't have a real device to test on.
I know that one can install .XAP files from SD card.. but does this process reqires internet access to check that the app is on the store or I just installs it as in Android?
Thanks in advance
You can debug your app on your physical device in Visual Studio. Your device has to be connected via usb cabel to your computer and has to be developer unlocked. You can developer unlock your phone with the Windows Phone Developer Registration Tool, which is a part of the Windows Phone SDK. You can find more information about the process here.
No, you cannot install the xap package on other people devices until unless their phones are not developer unlocked. When you build a .xap package in Release mode, you need to first upload it to Store where the Microsoft team checks package for security concerns. Once that has been checked, package verified, then the packages can be installed, basically uploading the app.
To debug the app, its better to unlock your friend's phone and then test it on it. After that if you wish you can also un-register the phone to revert back to original developer locked mode.
There is one more method which I use when my app is completed but do not wish to release the app on store, but instead, I wish that first these apps be used by my friends first, they give feedback and after that I finally submit the app on Store.
To do this, I submit the app in private visibility on Store. There is an option while submitting the app which indicates whether you want that other users can see your app on phone. I mark it Hidden. Once my app is verified and is on store, I download the app from store by going to the appropriate link of app on store which is given in app profile at dev-center. I choose 'Download and Install Manually' option to download the xap. This xap can be installed on other devices without unlocking their device.
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I have an application written in VB.NET that I want to move to Win10. It will always be a desktop application, however I would like it to have a start icon / tile in Win 10. Looking around I found this exact question which suggests to create a Metro App (now I believe called Windows App) which launches the desktop app. This is also discussed in this thread. So the questions;
These threads are a little old is the best way in Win10 to give a desktop app a Windows App Tile by using a Windows App as the Launcher for the desktop app?
It appears that in Win10 Microsoft has now allowed non-store apps to be installed in Update Security > SideloadApps. This needs to be enabled to install the App, but does this need to be always enabled. For example what happens after install if the user turns it off, will the app then not start?
For example I see in this link that there are 2 Registry keys to change, basically AllowAllTrustedApps and AllowDevelopmentWithoutDevLicense. Is it possible for my desktop installer to change these keys, install the Windows App (and everything else) and then change the keys back again?
Uninstalling? If I created a Windows App which only launched my desktop app then there is a possibility that the user uninstalls or deletes the Windows App, meaning my desktop app would be orphaned and lost. Any suggestion on solving this?
According to your description, I think what you need is Desktop Bridge. There is no need to use a Windows App as the Launcher for the desktop app.
You can try with Desktop App Converter, with this you can bring your existing desktop apps written for .NET 4.6.1 or Win32 to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP).
And after converting, you can replace the Assets generated by Desktop App Converter (DAC) automatically to provide custom Tiles/Icons. For more, you can refer to Manually convert your app to UWP using the Desktop Bridge.
I am testing WSO2-Emm system for managing our android mobile app. We have an app for taxi drivers. We deploy it using our tablets and a single gmail account. Our problem is that google allows up to 10 signed in devices for a single google account.
I have tried to load the apk to the WSO2 store. The problem is that when I want to upload a new version of the same app I get a warning message saying that this APK already exists in the store. When I try to rename it and add it as a new apk it works. The problem is that when I go to App-Management, the application appears under 'installed'. The Emm system doesn't detect there is a new version.
To be more specific, my question is is there a way to manage mobile application versions using the WSO2 store and not the google play store.
If there is a way we can go on with this system. If not, we will stop testing it.
The only way I've figured out how update an already installed app is by going to the App Management tab, selecting your latest version of the app in question, and hitting the install button under the Roles tab (NOT the Users tab). It will send the install command to any devices listed under roles you have checked, even if they already have the app installed. Keep in mind this will install the app on all the devices, even devices that already have the version you're trying to put out.
It looks like you already know about the patch on EMM-686 that must be implemented in order to upload multiple versions of the same app to the Publisher. Just in case you want to confirm it's implemented correctly, see my answer here for instructions on how to implement it.
Trying to access the isolated storage for an mp3 downloader app on my Windows Phone 8.1 Dev Preview. For CLI, I used the ISETool.exe that is included with the Windows Phone SDK. Because I don't have the app's Product ID, I couldn't copy it's storage. I think I got the product ID from the windowsphone.com store, but there's nothing to verify it against. Additionally, I tried using the IsoStoreSpy tool, which won't list the app, it only lists my apps that I have created.
Anybody have input as to copying the isolated storage of an app I got from the store?
Edit: Device is dev unlocked
You can only get files from side-loaded apps (eg, ones you deploy from VS). You can't extract files from Store-delivered apps.
I am developing apps (for MAC) which will NOT be hosted on the app store.These apps will be installed by dmg file. Can someone please confirm my assumptions?
Even if I dont sandbox the apps, app will still work on OSX 10.7 and above (provided see point 2 below)
If the security setting is "Mac Appstore and identified developer", in a non sandboxed scenario, user needs to right click and open the dmg file instead of double click it and installer can install apps to Application folder. Once installed applications can -
-Interact each other
-Access files
Yes, out of the app store apps don't have to run in sandbox.
The security setting has nothing to do with how your app is installed. If you build a installer (Xcode can do it for you) or you if you send the .app bundle in a dmg to be dragged into applications folder is a thing of your choice. An app that is not running in sandbox can interact with any other app and with any system resource, only limit is user permissions. OS X is still Unix and the fact that app store has rules about sandbox doesn't change the world out of app store.
With a company App configured on a Windows phone there is the posibiltiy to push the installation of an App. When the user starts the pushed App some configuration data must be introduced. I would like to save the user this step but I still don't know how. Isn't it possible to push files over the company App/Exchange, as it is on a Windows machine? So I could read the configuration out of this file.
your use case does raise many questions (probably just terminology)
The only way to push an APP to a device is through the Windows Phone store or website.
If you want to push configuration to a device for an app then the app must be run at least once to enable that ability and you could then use a background task to periodically check for new configuration and download it.
The other thing you can investigate is push notifications but they are not really meant for pushing data, you can sent simple objects or data to the device as a raw push but the app must be running first.
The most common way to achieve what you describe is to have the app load config at launch, locally first and then update it from a web call (if web is available, as these are mobile devices you can not guarantee connectivity). We do something very similar with AdRotator where we try to download config at start and if that fails use a locally cached version.
As of WP 8.0 there isn't the possibility to push Apps or Files through the company App.