If I want to develop an App or service that can control Windows 8 Metro Menu(Adding tiles, removing tiles, arranging tiles ,,, etc).
Does something like this available now or not? And if it's from where should I start?
Sorry, mate. I know exactly what you want. But, no.
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Is it possible to get more than 5 buttons in the tab bar? I know it is not recommended (due to UX), but I am building an app for tablets, not phones and there is really plenty of space and I would really like to have 7 buttons.
Any way to make it possible with this framework?
That's not possible as RNN uses https://github.com/aurelhubert/ahbottomnavigation which doesn't support this.
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.
I know this might seem odd, but I am working on a windows Metro app which would be displayed on touch screen monitors in our local university.
Now I am using the simulator for debugging, but in the simulator you have to start "Touch Mode" to even use the touch interface.
So when using the touch monitors, do we have to specifically specify touch mode ? Or it will automatically integrate the touch functionality ?
Thank you.
Touch is a first class-citizen in Windows Store applications, so no special accommodations are needed. I would recommend you test on a touch device though before deploying, it's a different way of interacting, and even though the simulator does a decent job of handling the mechanics, it will "feel" different to a user - especially if you're leveraging pinch-zoom, swipe and other gestures.
On another note... is this app intended for a kiosk-type application? If so, keep in mind with Windows 8/RT, you won't be able to easily prevent the users from swiping to the charms, navigating to other programs, etc. You may want/need to take a look at Windows 8 Embedded depending on the specific deployment requirements.
I have a windows 8 app and I have integrated adduplex with it. Is there a way to control what size of ads are being served by adduplex on my app? Currently I see 300x250 which messes up my UI
Not sure if AdDuplex uses a WebView to present the ads, but if it doesn't then perhaps you could put it in a Viewbox to scale it down.
Got it, it uses the size property, example size="90x720" will do the trick.
Are we only going to be able to create full screen Metro-style applications?
Yes:
Metro style apps are full screen apps tailored to your users' needs, tailored to the device they run on, tailored for touch interaction, and tailored to the Windows user interface.
Otherwise, as John Gardner points out, your app would not be a Metro-style app: if it exists on the desktop, it is by definition a desktop app.
But that's kindof the point of Metro.
You don't always have fullscreen either, because depending on screen size, you can have 2 applications visible.
If you want to use the desktop, you fall back into the standard windows desktop and use standard desktop applicatoins.
Yes but you can re-size your app by using Snap Feature.
I don't know exactly what are your requirements but better look at this and this video