How can I make an app for Windows Phone that provides contacts to the people hub but these contacts must not sync with Whatsapp.
I know this is possible because contacts with phone numbers from Facebook aren't synced with Whatsapp.
In what field of a contact should the phone number be stored so that WhatsApp can't read it.
What are the APIs and if there is an app like that existing in the store, what is it?
PS. I am developing for WP8.1 or WM10.
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Is there a way, either in C# or C++ APIs for Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 Metro applications, to get the user's app purchase date or, in case the app has been downloaded for free, the date of the first download? I'm specifically talking about the application's purchase date, not IAPs.
Thank you in advance.
There's few options:
1) Check out Windows.ApplicationModel.Package -class. It's available for 8.1 Store apps and provides information like InstalledDate. Word of warning, some of the properties only work in desktop apps.
2) You should be able to get the app's receipt. Receipt contains PurchaseDate for the product.
3) Manual way: When the app launches for the first time, create a roaming setting / app data where you store the launch date.
Is it still possible to enable authenticated (no-quota) push notifications for company app on Windows Phone?
There were a couple of blog posts by Windows Phone team documenting the process to enable no-quota push notifications for company app but now, on development portal, it is not possible to upload a certificate without linking it to an app.
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2013/12/10/enabling-no-quota-push-notifications-for-company-apps-on-windows-phone/
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2013/06/06/no-quota-push-notifications-using-a-root-certificate-authority/
I'm sure Microsoft added this feature a couple of years ago but now it seems to has been removed.
Do you know if authenticated push notifications for company app is still supported by Microsoft?
This is because you have the old developer account UI , and I think you should upgrade to store dev :
Unify windows phone developer account with store developer account
However , there was old trick for enterprise testers to test their apps by passing windows store with Build it Beta, it is similar to testflight, or hockeyapps.
Update:
if you are saying that you have updated your account, and you got the new dashboard simply follow :
Dashboard>apps>services>push notifications
as appears in image below
Is there a way to get info about particular app such as number of downloads, some kind of statistics etc., not being its owner. I am wondering whether exists any API to get information from Windows Phone Market? Thank you in advance. Last concern : is it enable to use another ad on windows phone than microsoft advertising? Will such app be approved on market?
Unfortunately there is no such Api to Access these things.
We are building a simple we app that contains basic tasking functionality (tasks, appointments, etc.).
We want to integrate it with Windows Phone 8 native Calendar, without writing any apps but by making a some sort of webservice that could be added as an account to Windows phone (e.g. Facebook, Microsoft Live, Gmail - are all accounts that are added, thus the tasks are synced).
Yet what have I came up with was this:
Interacting with calendars (Live Connect API)
This looks like a way to actively push and control the items on the Microsoft Live account, which would be fine but it requires that account to make it happen and an active module to do all the management.
We are looking forward to mimicking account behaviour and letting the phone do all the work :)
CalDAV was another keyword that popped up while searching but to my understanding windows phone doesn't support it.
Is it possible to forcefeed windows phone calendar objects to the phone without making a custom app?
Windows phone 8.1 supports cardav/caldav. You can put a custom dav server address selecting icloud account (it is a workaround) and editing the dav url. So you can set up a dav server in your app and synch calendars and contacts between your web app and the wp8 defaukt calendars and contacts app.
I'm developing a Windows Phone 8 app, which access the contacts and photos but does not send the contact nor photos via web, just access the contacts and allow the users to view his contacts in my app.
Do I need to provide Privacy Policy in my app? is that required for Windows App Store?
thanks