Is it possible to show application bar in windows phone 7 or higher at the top of application rather than at the bottom and also customizing the application bar. i-e.
Icon1 Icon2 Some text Icon3 Icon4.
No. The application bar supports very little customization.
The only things you cna customize are the number of buttons (up to 4) and the color of the bar.
It is not possible to customize the position of the bar or combine icons and text.
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I'm trying to hide status bar in Windows Phone 8.1. I see a thread to do this (Hide Status bar in Windows Phone 8.1 Universal Apps), but this is C#. I would like to hide this status bar in XAML. Reason is that Expression doesn't detect the code in class constructor. When I launch the app all is working, but in Blend it still display the status bar, and so I can't make correctly the design...
My question is : Is there a way to hide status bar in XAML (via a property in Page tag or other) ? Or it is possible to force Blend to detect whatever I write in constructor ?
Thanks you
There is no way to hide the status bar in XAML.
But you can hide it in Expression Blend.
Look to the Device Tab and then unselect the Show Status Bar tick as shown in the picture.
I want to hide the colored top bar alert when apps are actively using your location in the background, how can i do it?
use requestAlwaysAuthorization instead of requestWhenInUseAuthorization.
I am doing a windows 8 app project and I want to place an app bar for my app and i want to place buttons like zoom in and zoom out in my app bar how should code for those buttons??
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.
So to have less then 7 tab bar items, the only solution is to have customized "More.." button?
Is there any other solution?
That's clearly stated in the human interface guideline.
Off course you can create your own navigation bar and even include horizontal scrolling into it so you can have as many 'tab' as you want. I did this myself for a magazine app and that was accepted (tab were actually pages obviously)