I need to update my application's tile periodically with the count the amount of inbox items. Anyone can give me a reference or relevant link to a example or tutorial? I get my data from a webservice. I went on google, and all the examples is on button click. I need one that does this automatically every few minutes/hours? This is for the windows phone 8 start screen of the phone.
thanks in advance!
This is probably the best tutorial I have seen for live tiles in wp8:
http://www.windowsphonegeek.com/articles/live-tiles-in-windows-phone-8-part-1-tile-templates
There are a couple of different ways you can do this. You can use Azure Mobile Services OR you can use a background process for your app to update the tile. You can find information here :
http://thesociablegeek.com/windows-8/livetiles/modifying-live-tiles-in-a-background-process/
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I need to develop a web project for mobile devices. And I met an awkard situation.
This is customer's desire. A user come to the bar. He scan QR image with a phone camera, a banner appears to ask if he want to open the browser menu or an app.
Well, as a web developer this seems absolutely impossible. But the problem is that the customer claims that this is the most common UX those days. I am not sure what does it mean. Have you seen any kind of thing like this and know how to do it? Or is it just a customer's imagination?
Even if they implemented this via app, I just want to know how they were able to show the banner on a camera. Thanks in adavance.
Before Windows Universal, if I wanted to prevent the screen from turning off, I could use:
PhoneApplicationService.Current.UserIdleDetectionMode = IdleDetectionMode.Disabled;
That API is now gone and I can't find anything like it. Can someone help me find the right way to do this now?
Take a look at DisplayRequest class: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br241816.aspx?cs-save-lang=1&cs-lang=csharp#code-snippet-2. It's intended to apps which
show video or run for extended periods without user input
so it should be a solution.
I am developing an iOS app for iPhone using Xcode of course, and need to have the facility to update the information on my initial view daily. This would consist of editing a logo for the day's date, and daily changing a block of text on the same page.
Another feature within the app would need to be to progressively add more and more content (adding further menus and categories of information available to the user on the interface).
I cannot seem to find anything to help me online so I would be HUGELY GRATEFUL for any help!
Cheers :)
Search for JSON and how to retrieve data from an online resource - that's what you want.
Here's a randon tutorial:
http://www.appcoda.com/fetch-parse-json-ios-programming-tutorial/
I am building some software that requires me to display the icons of different apps, and possible save them on a database so I can look it up on demand?
I know you can get the url scheme but is that all you can do with it ? Or is there a way to get the app icons ?
For instance is there a way to get the icon of angry birds via an API call to the IOS system ?
In a non-jailbroken iPhone, you cannot get it from the OS.
You need to query the iTunes service from Apple to get this info ex:
http://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=284882215
See this SO post for more detail
Get other application icon image in my Application
I'm using a set of icons inside my Windows Store App for some functionality, I want to code for rearranging according to user wish like how we see in Windows 8 Start Screen. I want guidance and some resources for it, Do you have any suggestions?
Check out JQuery's GridView. Like Nate said. There are apps in the store that demonstrates the gridview. See CodeShow app. It's made from Javascript though.