Is it possible to submit a new app or update an existing app to Windows Phone store with any automate process instead of uploading it manually?
Please suggest the solutions for the same.
I found few automated tools for ios application submission like fastlane
Not possible at the moment and no indication about such feature coming.
There may be such functionality soon.
From https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/31/announcing-new-dev-center-capabilities-to-increase-app-revenue-and-streamline-management/:
The new Windows Store submission API will be made available in
preview, beginning today and rolling out in waves. This new API offers
a subset of functionality provided by Dev Center as a REST API and
supports these actions for published apps: submitting updates,
modifying metadata, and adding/removing in-app products. You can
request access to the preview through the “Feedback” tab in Dev Center
by selecting “Submission API” in the “Suggestions” tab. Access will be
granted in waves, beginning with a small group of developers. Build
session: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/B839
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I am a developer who is new to Windows Store development.
I wrote one Windows Store App and tried to upload it, yet I encounter some errors after submit the appxupload file.
The error messages are shown as below:
I have no idea how to make my developer account authorized to publish apps with the capability it mentioned. Is there a different set of capability for different developer account for Windows Store Application?
Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
Thank you!
I'm building a Chrome kiosk app that will be in a public space. Users can interact with the app, but there are a variety of settings (server addresses, timeouts, etc.) that need to be set. I'm looking for a strategy on how to allow access to that administration config.
On first run - This is straightforward, but I want administrators to be able to pull it up again.
Detect if the app ran as a kiosk app or manually - This would kind of work, not sure if it's the greatest
Detect some key combination - Ctrl + Alt + Something switches over to the settings page, this feels like people could stumble on it accidentally.
Is there another approach I'm missing?
If your Chrome device(s) is managed you have a further option which is to use the Chrome App Management area within the Google Apps admin interface.
To do this you code your app to use the storage.managed API and this should allow a Configure section for your app within Chrome App Management.
I haven't tried this myself yet but this appears to be the way the Chrome Sign Builder app is configured with its schedule.
Another approach would be to have an administrator login button in a corner of the app. You can set a default password for administrators, which could then be changed in the settings dialog.
You can also think of combining suggestions you have made, first run and then a key combination, and this could bring up a password prompt as also suggested. For an example of this see the Zebradog Kiosk app which is in GitHub so you can see code of how this could be done.
I use ctrl-alt-S at boot. This allows me to login and make changes. I know you have to do a couple of reboots, but it is out of service during admin time anyway.
Is there an API that allows to me to programmatically pull the latest update from the store and refresh the current version that the user is using? If not, is it possible for the current app to programmatically know that there is a new version available?
Any samples/examples would be highly appreciated.
You can't programmatically install any Store software. But you can programmatically open the Store to let it do the user manually.
That said, there's no official Store API which you could ask about app versions (you might be able to parse the Store's HTML pages, but I recommend against this approach).
What you can do: Put a small XML file on your website which contains the latest app version number. Your app then can read this file and compare this desired version against the running app's version. If the app is outdated, the app can show a message box to the user.
I ended up using WNS and Azure Notification Hub to send a push notification to the app when it is launched. The notification is in the form of a toast message that essentially states that a new release is available. But if you updated/downloaded the app after xx/xx/xxxx, no updates are necessary.
I know it is a little cludgy but at least the users now know that the version of the app that they are using may be dated. I control the notification through Azure Mobile Service (which is free for up to 10 apps) and can fully modify the actual script.
Short version: I have a WebBrowser control hosted in a Windows Phone 8 app. How can I store values from javascript so that they persist across the user closing and reopening my app?
Long version:
I'm developing a Windows Phone 8 application that has a single WebBrowser control hosted in a single MainPage.xaml page that lives for the entire life of my app. I created the app with the "Windows Phone HTML5 App" project type when creating the project in Visual Studio 2012. 99% of my application is hosted in web pages (on the internet, not stored on the phone) that I direct the WebBrowser to go to when the app starts up. In my application's web pages I'm trying to persist data across pages and across sessions. For example, once the user logs in once then I want to store that on the phone so the next time they start the app they don't have to log in again.
Cookies and HTML5 Local Storage (via window.localStorage.setItem and getItem) both work fine for sharing data across pages in the app while the app is running and even if you switch out of the app (via the Windows phone "hard button") and go back in. But if the user exits the app by pressing the hard "back" button then the next time the app is started all localStorage and cookies seem to be gone.
Is this the expected behavior? I guess I'm not sure where WebBrowser would store the data (Isolated Storage? Or maybe in the same place it's stored if going to the web site with Internet Explorer?). In any case, if there's no "fix" for this, can anyone the best way for me to provide my own storage mechanism so that I can let my javascript code persist values across instances of my app running? I'm happy to use the app's Isolated Storage if only I knew of a way to get and retrieve values from it using javascript. Thank you.
I'm not sure if this is expected behaviour or not.
To get at the Isolated Storage you will need to use JS/.NET interop.
if you want to trigger the persistent storage from JS:
Use window.external.notify in JS, generating a JSON string (for instance) to pass along to the .NET side. That could be written to IsolatedStorage without the .NET having to parse the data. You could use IsolatedStorage.AppSettings or a full file depending on the size of the data.
Alternately you could trigger the process from .NET:
Call WebBrowser.InvokeScript to call a JS function which returns the same JSON string representing your data.
The .NET side could detect and restore this data on startup and use WebBrowser.InvokeScript to pass the JSON string back into the WebBrowser via a JS function.
You'd of course have to deal with error cases (attempting to restore bad/corrupt JSON).
Also, if you trigger this from .NET in response to the App.Closing event you need to watch out that you don't take too long writing data.
The faster you run the better, but this definitely needs to be done within 10 seconds or the OS will kill your app.
See MSDN docs for WebBrowser.InvokeScript() and ScriptNotify registration to window.external.notify.
We are exploring the inviting Chrome Packaged Apps for developing our HTML5 based Offline Web-Application and for that, chrome's background apps feature is quite interesting and complies to our requirements. However, i have the following query:
1. Will the app continue to run in the background if the user has closed the Chrome Browser window? Actually I want to sync my data to an online server and want it to keep running even if the user has closed the browser window.
Can anyone guide is this feature possible in Chrome's packaged background apps?
You can use one of the following technologies in Chrome Packaged Apps:
Alerts API: it allows you to schedule periodic runs of a specific piece of code
Cloud Service and PushMessaging API: although in experimental state, this API will allow your Chrome App to receive notifications from an third-party, for example your own server. This is, however, not appropriate for broadcasts, as each pushmessage goes to one app and one user per time.