There is a cool way to extend the share picker for photos in Windows Phone Mango, as detailed here. I would like to do this same thing for sharing web pages in IE, but it doesn't look like it's possible. Do you know of a way?
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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.
I realize something like this has been asked before, but I would like to create an app with UI elements atop a transparent window (basically, an app without a window frame and with transparent background).
I've read the following posts:
transparent app in windows 10 uwp
Transparent UWP windows 10
I checked the BlurPlayground.
It seems that this isn't possible. However, the Sticky Notes application in Windows 10 is definitely managing to do this. Either this is some special API only available to Microsoft, or it can be done.
Can someone confirm?
This cannot be done in UWP today. The custom frame you see in Sticky Notes is a one-off implementation that does not have a public API.
Curious what is your scenario you want to accomplish here? (feel free to ping me offline - swick [at] Microsoft.com)
Thanks,
Stefan Wick - Windows Developer Platform
i want to port one of my windows phone 7 apps to the windows 8 metro style plattform.
the problem is, that i need a element like the hubtile which i use from the silverlight toolkit for windows phone.
is there something equal in the windows 8 metro style platform? maybe open source like the silverlight toolkit.
i dont want to add the livetile outside my app, this is easy. i want to have something like hubtile for WP7 for win8. This means a tile which is inside my application.
If I'm right I'm planning to do the same task. I didn't find any reference of a control which performs like a HubTile. Thus, I decided importing the one from the Silverlight Toolkit (for Windows Phone). Luckily it worked almost smoothly, you can see my sample at:
https://github.com/hmadrigal/playground-dotnet/tree/master/MsWinPhone.EmbedFont (tested on Windows 8 RP and Visual Studio 2012 RC)
Kind regards,
Herber
you can work with the live tiles of course and in several ways. You can use badge notifications, toast notifications, and so on.
I'll suggest you to take a look to this documentation.
And also take a look to those two samples: App tiles and badge sample and Push and periodic notifications client-side sample
By the way don't forget to enable the features you need in the package manifest.
If I wanted to create a mobile app that allows the user to take pictures with their phone, record audio notes and record video, how would I do that?
I was browsing through the Sencha Touch 2 API and while I see documentation on video and audio files, it seems like it is just providing a way for me to access files stored on the phone - not actual triggers to record, or take pictures.
Am I missing something?
How would I do what I want?
In order for Sencha Touch to have access to your phone capabilities, you need to use a product like Phone Gap
Unless there is a HTML5 api for doing those sorts of things I don't think you can do that. I know on PhoneGap there are native extensions added into that platform for access to things like microphone, camera, etc. I don't know if Sencha Touch has added any of those sorts of extensions in order for you do this.
Just thinking out of the box here, but you might be able to put Sencha javascript into a Web View from within an Android Java process. Then the Java code could expose an object in its process as an extension point to the Javascript engine for access to Camera, Microphone, what not.
Is there any way to remove the window border (i.e., make the style NSBorderlessWindowMask) for a window that belongs to another application?
Those windows don't belong to your application. Your only hope is hackery.
Look into something like SIMBL to inject code into the other applications. There's also ApplicationEnhancer.
Good luck - screw-ups here can destablize others' apps or the entire system. Also, I highly doubt Apple will let you play in their App Store if your app does this.