I just started developing wp8 apps coming from android. What is the equivalent UI control for an app drawer (android) to be able to quickly change from page to page? I'm looking for the control used to change from page to page in OneNote
EDIT: I found out that Windows phone 8.1 offers flyouts which can be made to look like an app drawer.
The equivalent to the android app drawer is probably the windows phone appbar, but the appbar in windows phone is not used for navigation - only settings like actions.
In windows phone, navigation is done primarily through your own interface, with heavy use of the BACK button to go to previous pages. The main class you use in windows phone is the NavigationService
I don't believe the OneNote uses standard UI components, so you would probably have to create your own
There are plenty of solid resources online that should help. Start here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/ff626521(v=vs.105).aspx
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i have created my Mobile application with Jquery mobile now i want it to deploy
now how should i deploy across platforms like and android Iphone etc.,
Phone Gap looks promising but it is confusing plus it looks like i have to re code stuff again
please Help
Thanks
jQuery mobile framework provides tools for mobile UI. It is used in combination with standard web application backends. Such applications are deployed on web servers! If you want to make hybride apps you can use PhoneGap, that's right.
PhoneGap projects use an open packaging model that follows the W3C Widget Packaging specification. You have to adjust your project according to the specifications or simply deploy it as a web application on a web server.
I'm making a universal Windows Runtime 8.1 version of our app, originally an iOS app. I'm trying to find out how to display a page modally in the app.
In iOS, I'd use presentViewController:animated:completion: and dismissViewControllerAnimated:completion:, but I can't find an equivalent in WinRT. I've seen the task mapping which only mentions navigation frames (they're the equivalent of using pushViewController:, which isn't what I want) and I've seen this question which talks about a ContentDialog class, but that's only available for phone apps, not universal ones.
How do I show a page modally in a universal app?
We are building a Windows 8.1 mobile app. We are trying to open a local html file in the browser programmatically but do not know how to achieve this functionality. Please let us know how we can implement the same.
Thanks.
You can display web content using the WebBrowser control for Windows Phone 8
this Link may use for You
WebBrowser control for WP
I am new to windows phone development and i will like to create a page with buttons similar to the windows phone main page.
Something like this http://cdn.marketplaceimages.windowsphone.com/v8/images/b60e325c-ac45-4d7d-bdf9-f83762c23c90?imageType=ws_screenshot_large&rotation=0
Can you please suggest how I can achieve this?
You can either use the Windows Phone Toolkit (free) or Telerik Rad Controls (not free)
Both of them have a "Hub Tile" Component that allows you to create "Live Tiles" like those inside your app.
I was looking for a way to apply the current theme to the application on application activation.
E.g. the app is started in light theme and the user switches to the settings to switch to dark theme. Now when he comes back to my app, he still sees a white theme until he restarts the app.
I found several older blogs and stackoverflow links which stated that this is a bug in WP7.
But when I tried this with the calculator app or the people app (both from Microsoft), they are visually rethemed once I reactivate them.
Any idea how this can be achieved on Windows Phone 8?
Sounds like a low priority bug to me. :) Anyway you can use PhoneThemeManager to change the theme for the app manually.