What are some ways to show either notificationn count or the existence of new unread messages in Windows Phone.
Like in iOS we use the badge icon.
In Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 you can add Badges to your live tiles:
A notification badge conveys summary or status information specific to your app. They can be numeric (1-99) or one of a set of system-provided glyphs. Examples of information best conveyed through a badge include network connection status in an online game, user status in a messaging app, number of unread mails in a mail app, and number of new posts in a social media app. Badges can be displayed on all tile sizes. On Windows, they appear in the lower-right corner of the tile (lower-left corner on a computer set to a right-to-left (RTL) language). On Windows Phone 8.1, they appear in the upper-right corner of the tile (upper-left corner on a computer set to a right-to-left (RTL) language).
Source: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/xaml/hh779719.aspx
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When using Visual Studio 2015 to make a Windows 10 Store application, the package manifest (Package.appxmanifest) lets you add a Badge Logo in 5 different resolutions. What is the Badge Logo for?
The badge logo images are used in some tile templates and on lock screen notifications. The badge is the small logo you often see next to a number on smaller tiles, for example showing an unread message count. On larger tiles this will appear in a corner.
See more at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/apps/hh779719.aspx (yes this page is Win8 documentation but still applies.)
I have a simple windows phone 8 project that consists in receiving notifications from a server, and displays its content on a MainPage.xaml.
The notification has a title, a subject and a content. I have faced a strange issue on Nokia devices that have a notification center, where you can see all the received notifications which are not opened yet. I have noticed that those notification are separated in 2 clickable lines:
The first line (icon and application name) opens the
application.
The second line (notification title and subject) opens the
application with the notification content.
During my tests, I sometimes missclicked on the first line, which opens my application without the notification's content (and so did not understood what the hell was happening). As I am not a Windows Phone user, can you confirm this is a common behavior on Nokia devices ? Or is there a way to always open the application with the notification content, even if you clicked on the first line ?
I want to show a text across the middle of the secondary live tile (not the small text at the bottom). I am struggling to find any documenttion of how to do it. I know it was possible in WP 8, but I wonder if this functionality is still available?! I also want to it from code not from XAML.
Are you familiar with the tile template catalog for Windows Runtime apps?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh761491.aspx
I have developed wp8 app and looking for a control to slide. I am showing single verse in the page and I want the user to slide (forward and backward) to show next verse, verses may reach 286. I have seen this feature in many application in windows phone store, but I don't what wp8 control they are using.
appreciate your feedback!
Panorama is that you have one image in the background you move a little everytime you go to one side, it is what is used in the image app.
But since you need 286, you should not use the panorama control. Then you should rely on the pivot but beware of microsoft not wanting the users to be confused and caught inside 286 pages, so you need to give the user and overview and use a button that can return a person to the start page.
I would like to use same design in my app as has default rating/review page in Windows Phone 8 - (Page which appears when user wants to review an app). Where can I get the screen shot of this page? Or is there aviable original template for this page?
You can take the screenshot on your phone and copy it to your computer. There is no template for that page that is publicly available, why would you need it?
If you want to enable rating your app from the phone itself, use MarketplaceReviewTask.
If you want to reuse the star rating control, you can get it from the Windows Phone Toolkit: see RatingControl.