Are there any ways to style the Windows Phone 8 Toast messages at all?
I have an application that I am receiving and displaying messages fine after registering the Toast template (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/hh202967(v=vs.105).aspx), however if the pushed message is too long it seems to just get cut off on the edge of the screen. I can't seem to find a mechanism where I can manage this (like make the text wrap, for instance).
No, you cannot style the toast messages.
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I have a list of phone numbers on my iOS App - all consisting of a simple table layout, with the normal 123-123-1234 syntax. However, one of the phone numbers has a different menu popping up within my iOS App - in that, it's showing a verified number and allowing a user to text or call the number.
Does anyone know why? Thanks in advance!
I completed Google's tutorial for web push notifications (https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/getting-started/codelabs/push-notifications/) and added a service worker to my web app. However, I noticed the notification text is truncated on most cases, like in the following example:
truncated text notification example
I would like to display a web push notification on Chrome/Firefox with a relatively long body (2-3 lines) and possibly a long title (2-3 lines). Is there official support for this? Is there an option not to truncate the notification text and display all of it? Or how to display a certain number of lines before it gets truncated? Thank you.
No, it's not possible. Any combination of browser / OS / context can discretionally truncate the notification at a different length. There isn't any official specification about it. However, if you go to the OS notification center, you can usually read the whole notification (while the notification displayed on the other content is usually truncated).
If you keep your text short then is less likely that it gets truncated: for example at Pushpad we constrain the length of the title to 30 characters.
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
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'm not a WP8 dev, but I wanted to write a little timer app for my toddler. Thing is, she shouldn't be able to turn it off by clicking 'home','back' or 'search', but by password only. Its for personal use only, so store policies/hackiness dont matter. I know it can be done on android, but how about WP8?
You could programatically block any back-button presses (though it's not compliant with windows phone store requirement), but there's no way to block start and search buttons.
Try encapsulating those buttons with some DuctTape