Is it possible to "plug-in" or create an extension to the email app on Windows Phone? The way the user would interact with it is that during the creation or reading of a message my tool would be another option on the New or Read message command bar? Essentially I would like to extend the functionality of the mail app. I don't see any other way at this point other than creating a brand new email application for the phone.
No. The best you can do is to use the share contract in your application and send some information to the Email app. Once it opens up, you won't be able to "plug" any behavior.
Have a look in this and this MSDN articles.
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I'm making a chrome extension for a classified ads website. With the chrome extension users will be able to get latest lists from their watched categories/search query.
I am already working on a websocket server to send notifications to users, but this way I have to always have a socket connection open to every user.
My second approach was to use Firebase, but this will run the notification only when a user clicks the icon (as I've read), and I would rather have this done from my server
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Are there any other possible solutions to send notifications to a chrome extension without the user clicking on the icon?
You can use Google's push infrastructure ― the very same that powers Android push notifications ― Google Cloud Messaging.
Note: Firebase Cloud Messaging is presented as an upgraded version of GCM; while true, it's not natively supported by Chrome in a way that GCM is.
chrome.gcm API is the one that works with it. See its documentation, as well as GCM documentation, for details.
There's even a tutorial: Implementing GCM Client on Chrome
But in a nutshell, your extension will register as a subscriber with GCM, pass the subscription ID to the server, and then the application server posts messages to GCM using those IDs.
You should also be able to use Firebase, if you're willing to implement it using the generic JS SDK; "this will run the notification only when a user clicks the icon" sounds pretty nonsensical ― a background page should be able to keep a listener alive and react, which is probably how your system works now. I would still recommend a native API, which should be compatible with Event pages.
Have you looked at the chrome.notifications API? It allows you to create rich notifications using templates and show these notifications to users in the system tray.
https://developer.chrome.com/apps/notifications
You can have a connection to your socket server in the background script, listen for messages from your socket server and trigger an event that shows the notification.
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
So i've created an application in visual studio for windows phone using a web view and I'm just wondering if its possible to send a message to the user that pops up as an alert when they are outside of the app? Every week I want the user to receive a notification from the application. After some searching around I wasn't able to find much information on this that is specific to web views so I'm not sure if this is possible using javascript?
Thanks for the help
What you want to do is create scheduled toast notification. You need to use WinJS or C# to do the job. You can call functions outside of the webview from javascript using ScriptNotified event
Is it possible to create an NFC message that will create a calendar entry on the destination phone, without requiring my app to be installed on the destination phone?
For the moment, I've implemented it by using a custom protocol URI, but I'd like this to work even when the destination phone does not have my app installed. It would be even better if it could work on an Android destination.
You cannot do this on any phone if I am not mistaken. NFC messages at the end of the day are just bytes being transferred from one mobile device to another. If the destination device does not know how (and most of them do NOT have a build in handler for calendar event) to parse that message in order to open a native application what you are trying to do will not work.
Even if you get an NFC reader and read an NFC message design for that purpose and then recreate this in your application it will NOT be universal; meaning it will not work on any device, especially on different OS devices.
Again this is what I know so far. Don't take this for granted.
Have you tried to store a vcalendar item on a tag to see whether/how a phone reacts to this?
text/x-vcalendar or text/calendar
might be the right format to use for the NDEF record. See also this so question.
If this would not work, you might write an app that takes intents from such calendar data and sends it to the calendar app on the phone (however I don't know how that step would work).
Here My question is that i want to create one html5 based cross platform mobile application.
In which i want to read my gmail mail data and want to display it in my application page.
Here i don't want to send any mail using this app i just want to display the mail of my gmail account.I searched about it on google but i did not get any result for it.
if we make something like it then give me some information about it how to read data from gmail mail.If we can't do then please give me some reason for it or helpful links.
So if anyone have any idea about it then please help me.
Thanks in advance !..
Pure HTML 5 Alone
No. As the other answers point out, Gmail does not provide a RESTfull API that would be accessible to a HTML mobile app. However, Gmail does provide the standard IMAP and SMTP APIs. You can read all about integrating GMail features within apps here: https://developers.google.com/gmail/.
Pure HTML 5 With Middleware
Using pure mobile HTML5 cross platform code - you will not be able to make use of these APIs. However, you could write a server to act as a middleware between GMail and your pure HTML 5 application. The server could do all the interaction needed with Gmail, and your application could interface with the server. I'm not recommending this because you could be opening up your user's Gmail to many security flaws, and it would be a lot of extra work on top of the HTML5 app - but it is possible.
Mobile Chrome App
Although this is not pure HTML5 - Chrome Apps allow TCP socket connections. Having direct TCP connections would allow you to write - or find an existing - IMAP client to read email. Next, you could use Mobile Chrome Apps to put your chrome app on IOS and Android. This is not pure HTML5 and is not 100% cross platform (windows phone, etc), but you app would be able to directly talk to Gmail.
Platform Specific Apps
Of course the final option is to write platform-specific apps that can directly interface with IMAP & SMTP. This option does go directly against your requirements in the question, but I felt like it should be included to be a comprehensive answer.
Sorry, but you cannot create such Html5 based cross platform mobile app
(which seems like an email client, though used for reading purpose only). Google hasn't provided any Rest API through which we can access our gmail accounts. Link provided by #tnt, itself says in its last line:
Please keep in mind that Gmail messages will appear in your aggregator only if there are unread messages in your inbox.
You can even check the list of APIs provided by google: APIs Explorer
You can add a middleware (server) like:
Your application <--> Your server <--> Gmail
For this, you should have a server.
Create RESTful web services (using, WCF, for example) that will do your job of bring mails to you. Publish it. And, you can, then, use those service urls in your html pages. This the way you can achieve, what you want (making cross platform mail clients, I guess)..
My suggestion is to go with phonegap.I used it in which u can create apps in HTML5.Also since for gmail use gmail apis in html5.
The following link is for phonegap
http://phonegap.com/