I was on a Windows 8 dev camp few days ago. I have a fragment of memory that some of the speakers told that W8 give the possibility to require pincode interaction to allow a exit of the running application. Am I right here?
Exit in this case mean that the environment, except the application itself, is completely blocked until correct pincode are entered. I see it as a good fit for kid application but also to easify lending out phone/tab.
This should be an established question, today?
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In my app
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/1rm/d8639e5b-93ae-4d34-a575-d84e205c134d
I get an error message when users press submit after rating.
Get error c101a006.
Not sure why this happens, open store but not able to submit review
As far as I can see no rating can be submitted due to error, at least not on Windows 8 machines running more than one account. How can I verify rating works now on machines running one account?
It is ZEST_E_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, an error that tells you that the Store server suffered a heart-attack when trying to process the submission. The rating page itself is displayed by the Store app on your machine. I had no trouble myself submitting a rating for your app.
So this has nothing to do with your app itself. Web server errors happen, they can take a few days to get resolved. At least from my test it is clear that the server can no longer be the problem. If you still have trouble then there's something wrong with your Microsoft account. Login on this web page and double-check that your birthdate and home country have been entered.
Without any code it's difficult to say.
Anyway searching googling the error code I went to Microsoft support site That says it's a server error, for example when account data are not completed. It's hard to do more with only these informations.
My friend was getting the same error since he was from Siberia and this is how Microsoft responded to him. Its mainly caused when one tries to rate an app while the app marketplace aint supported in that region.
Go to settings > region and language > change the phones region to a supported country > restart the phone (change to UK preferably)
Go to http://support.xbox.com/en-US/billing-and-subscriptions/account-management/change-region and click on Account migration
Sign in with your xbox account (in some cases they will send you verification code on email address which you added before)
Finish account migration to UK (in my case). Please keep in mind that they allow you to do this only ONCE per 3 months
Problem solved. Try to download free apps or games and everything will work.
Solution for application which requires payments:
1. Go to settings > region and language > change the phones region to a supported country > restart the phone
2. Go on store. Find some game or application for payment.
3. Add payment option which you wish
Enjoy and cheers :)
Note 1: I suggest you to complete account migration on Xbox from other device (PC/Mac)
Note 2: Xbox region restriction was cause of this error
At my current level of knowledge, I think it is not possible, to develop an emergency or time critical alarm app for Windows 8.1 as a Windows Store App (no Desktop).
Maybe also Windows Phone 8 would fit such app scenario, for having smaller devices to carry around.
For (fictitious) example you have a blind person walking down a road, now he or she unfortunately enters a area, where no one should walk around without seeing something, then the app should warn the person with a toast notification (with sound or vibration) or some UI related function if the app is on top but the Screen is turned off.
As Windows 8.1 sets time limits to the background tasks to safe battery life, I think it is not possible to build such an app on that plattform.
A similar scenario is this question Location tracking windows 8, but it was Windows 8 he asks about and now it is 1 year over and I hope there is something new which I have missed.
Maybe there is way to hook up the Tracking Service?
If the interaction works for you, you would want to create a windows phone app that supports running in the background much the way that GPS navigation applications work (the application must be navigating for it to run in the background).
How to run location-tracking apps in the background for Windows Phone 8
Monitoring geolocation this way will be timely and you can create toast notifications, but you have to be wary of when the application will be deactivated. Whether the platform will work for you depends on your requirements and centers around deactivation. Take a look to see if the conditions for deactivation don't meet your standards, and implement a proof of concept.
This question is no longer active - I have been officially notified by the company that we're dropping Android and going with a system that is specifically designed for business use.
In our two sister companies we installed almost 500 android phones assuming they'd have security capabilities similar to Linux that would allow us to provide business phones to our employees but limit their access to apps. Unfortunately we've since found out that we were hugely mistaken. Android has decided that whoever has possession of the phone should have full access to everything. Unfortunately for us this has been a business nightmare, with huge data overages, employees downloading and installing anything and everything they can get their hands on from Play Store, the apps we need to run constantly being stopped by the task manager because too many apps are running at the same time with our employees arguing that the apps are buggy or the phone is broken. Due to our type of operation, the phones are passed from one employee to another often for weeks at a time before a supervisor or technician has access to them.
We absolutely need to either secure the phones or get rid of them. So...
From within a service, how do I capture when an employee clicks on an unauthorized app either from the desktop or from the applications menu? I've spent the last 2 days searching Google for an answer, but have turned up nothing. I know it can be done, because I have a couple of apps on my personal phone that do so.
We're using Android 2.2
Why not uninstall Google play store from the phones? And any other apps which are not needed?
It might be easiest too just install a parental control app. Here's an example, though this particular one may not meet all your needs: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiddoware.kidsplace
Have a look at the 3CX Mobile Device Manager. The sign up process is free and easy. Then you just need to download the app to each phone from GooglePlay and get it set up. I would be interested in knowing if you proceed with it and if it does everything you need it to.
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I'm starting my 3rd year in a Computer Science degree , and I need to pick a project and develop within the following year.
I'm searching for unique ideas for a project , I have some ideas , however I still have my doubts about them , whether or not they are good enough to develop and etc .
For example :
Client / Server application for supermarkets (food) with DB queries
Iphone application
Cellular dating system
...
I'm sure that all of you (SO members) at some point of your careers came across (and still are) an interesting project (or projects) , so any idea would be greatly appreciated.
4/ World grave database. Grave position (google maps) of every human (first and last name + birth and death date).
If this becomes some hit, I want % ;-)
A mobile app that lets people friend each other, supports location services, allows you to display a map showing you where all of your friends are and click to send an SMS telling them to stay put because you're on your way.
It really depends on what your interests are, but if it were me I would focus on a project that lets me explore the possibilities of solving a problem via the integration of a broad range of technologies and architectures: a web or iPhone app with a social element that makes use of cloud resources and scaling technologies like Hadoop or Cassandra.
I write networking code as my job. Here are some out-of-hours prototyping projects I've done recently, that might make it into our product in the next year. You want to pick something that's doable and has no external factors, so you can guarantee to get it working solidly.
A WOL service. A central server maintains connections to client nodes, which check in through a service that runs when the machines are awake. They send their MAC on checkin. The channel must be secure, and only registered accounts can authenticate with the central server. Each machine runs a low-frequency broadcast service (UPnP-style) that advertises its presence to other machines on the service's network. When a node thinks it's picked up a signal from another node, it exchanges a challenge with it, and sends the result to the central server. Thus, the central server can validate that the machines are indeed 'adjacent' (able to contact each other directly), and that neither machine is lying about the location of the other.The point of this: if you have the login details for a node, the hosted service will relay a WOL instruction to any other node on the network which was known to be adjacent to the target node when it was last up. You can therefore wake your machine remotely when you don't access to its subnet, assuming at least one other machine on the subnet is turned on and checked into the service.That's an ambitious project, but possible for a motivated student with a good grasp of networking.
Secondly, how about a VPN service? Do STUN on a central server to help two non-adjacent computers connect to each other and establish an SSH-style protocol with flow-controlled channels to perform port-forwarding (keep it simple: a SOCKS proxy on the client end is preferable to trying to do a full point-to-point network bridge with 'true' VPN capabilities).
I've got each of these to a working prototype in just under a day of coding each (using a few pre-written components from earlier), so for a student who's still learning C and network programming, they might be suitable year projects. I don't what level your university would push you to though.
I have downloaded the Metro Style Application Sample that is available on the Microsoft Web Site. There are lots of examples that shows how you can interact with the hardware device (sensors,gps,etc). I have of course downloaded the Windows 8 Developer preview to execute those examples. My question is : how can I test those samples that uses the device hardware (gps, accelerometer) or that accesses to the phone features (sms,etc) using the emulator?
At the moment there are not devices that support windows 8 (the first phone will probably come out this autumn) ?
I'd like to start to develop some metro style applications to be ready when windows 8 store will be online but using just the emulator is a big limitation isn't it?
Yes and no. There are slate devices that can run the Windows 8 Dev Preview just fine.
If you are unable to get one of these, one option is to create your own interfaces for all the devices. Underneath you can have two implementations.
First one, you connect to the actual underlying devices via the Windows 8 APIs. Sure you won't be able to test these until you have a device but such is life.
The second implementation can be a dummy one. For example, you can have a thread running and every 2-3 seconds publishing some GPS event.
That way you at least have some dummy device data coming in that you can test with for the time being.