I work with Windows Phone 8. I want to be able to take a button, tap it and load a picture from the phone into a window to edit it. Can someone please direct me to where I can find info on this or tutorials? I'm not asking someone to do this for me, just help on how to do it myself.
Welcome to StackOverflow! Your question is a bit too broad for StackOverflow, next time please try to focus on a smaller problem. "Windows Phone 8 Picture Editing" is too general.
But I know it is a hard topic to start on, and there are not many resources about it (especially compared to iOS). If you are not good with Windows Phone app development, I'd first recommend some easier examples.
Anyway, here is a simple app that demonstrates setting an image onto a view from a local file: http://developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Loading_local_image_file_on_Tap_events_in_Windows_Phone
If you want to choose an existing photo, it is even easier. You can
follow the instructions at this link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/hh394019%28v=vs.105%29.aspx
To take a photo, you can use the camera capture task, which is very
similar to the photo picker. Here is how to use it:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/hh394006%28v=vs.105%29.aspx
If you need a more advanced/custom camera, you can implement your own
camera. A relatively simpler example is here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/microsoft.devices.photocamera%28v=vs.105%29.aspx
If you trust yourself, a much advanced example is here (I also
followed the same tutorial for creating an advanced photo filtering
app):
If that is too hard, you should definitely take a look at the Nokia
Imaging SDK for Windows Phone 8. It has many built-in filters that
anyone who is interested in making a photo editing app would like:
http://developer.nokia.com/Develop/Windows_Phone/nokia_apis/imaging.xhtml
If you still need more, or if you want something more lightweight and
smaller than Nokia Imaging SDK, just look at
WriteableBitmapExtensions that enables you to perform simple
operations: http://writeablebitmapex.codeplex.com/
When you are done with the actual image editing/programming, you should consider the user experience and total integration in more general.
To extend the phone to make your app a fully-featured editing app, head over here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wpapps/Photo-Extensibility-Sample-db289044
This also explains the topic on extending the editing section in greater detail: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj662932%28v=vs.105%29.aspx
I could write hundreds of lines of code directly here, but it wouldn't have meant anything. I hope these links help you (and many others) as a starting point for image editing on Windows Phone. But remember to ask more specific questions next time :)
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The context is that in a Xamarin.Forms project, I want to right-click and add an item from VS in the usual project content menu as maybe an entry called "Add Image Asset", let's say a raster or SVG image, and have it programmatically add those to the resources folder in Android and the Assets.xcassets in the IOS and Mac projects. Maybe it could even size or resize the input image or vector assets to fit into different dpi sizes, which would cut down on a lot of front-end redundancy.
So, an extension would have to be created I would think.
On VS for Windows this isn't such a problem, but be it that the Mac version is Monodevelop-based, is what I want to do even possible, and how?
Firstly this is something that is built-in into MFractor so you might want to take a look (you can request a free trial to see how it works). If you are not willing to spend money on such a tool then I believe you can try writing your own extension. This article should be a good starting point.
If I were you I would try using MFractor with a trial license so you can decide whether it's worth the money or not. In my opinion, it's a must in XF development (it has so many nice features), but I can understand that there are companies that are not willing to spend money on it. If you are interested you can contact Matthew for more details.
I need to create 'slidable panel' control for WP8. Very similar to the one that was used by the old twitter application on ipad (landscape UI).
It's pretty hard to describe in words, here is a link to an article describing how to implement it on ios:
https://www.cocoacontrols.com/posts/how-to-build-the-twitter-ipad-user-experience
Sorry, i can't post image to give you a quick overview (stackoverflow reputation...) you will find some in the article above.
As you can see it's basically a stack of 'views' that can overlaps, and you can slide them around.
Is there any third party control similar to this for Windows Phone
8.x?
If not could you provide some guidance on how you would implement it?
Maybe it's not the good way to do it on WP, in this case what's the WP way to do this?
PS: i am new to WP development, ios/android background.
Thx.
I know that it is not exactly what you are looking for but this widget can be a pretty good base for your control.
After a thorough search through the Microsoft Documentation i wasn't able to find a conclusive answer to the Question, wether or not an App published to the Windows Store has to look like a Metro/Windows Phone App or if it is allowed (but obviously discouraged) to have apps look like Ports from other Operating Systems. This Question obviously becomes very important when writing Cross Plattform HTML 5 Apps.
Have i overlooked something in the Documentation? Do you have any experience in this area?
My understanding for the phone is that in theory you can do what you want but within certain parameters. So if you want your app to look like an Android or iOS app with the back button at the top, that's fine. You don't have to use panoramas or pivots if you don't want to. You don't even have to use the set fonts if you don't want to.
But you cant start recreating desktop style windows drop downs, and other things that really wont work on a phone.
You also have to ensure your app still functions as a windows phone app. So the back button must work even if you have an on-screen back button.
For Windows 8 apps, I believe there much more strict. Pre 8.1 all apps had to use the search button on the charms rather than implementing there own. Since 8.1 the search button requirements have changed. Don't know about any other restrictions.
There's certainly no requirement to use flat colours rather than gradients like you would get on other platforms.
My app will look like this: two people enter a chat or something else in a page and have a skype name or Gtalk. Is it possible to make an anchor to call a voice client from the web page? Is there a flash fallback for this?
I know the skype: prefix that actually doesn't work for me in Ubuntu, but should work for Windows users.
I primarily target PCs & macs, but supporting mobile platforms with a solution will be nice.
For Downvoters: any comments why you do this? Please bother to explain me the obvious thing that I don't know and make this question.
Your question is much too complex. Instead of answering it, which would take several pages, the person might as well write the application him/herself and sell it.
You have to divide your problem in tiny bits, and have a question for each one.
You could at least start with looking at gTalk API and Skype API to see what you need yourself.
I am trying to build an application for smart phone devices. I have searched a lot over the web and I found some good toolkits, These are the toolkits I am considering to work with. Jquery Mobile and webapp-net.
The only problem is I need to kknow about the technical differences in html of these two toolkits. so if you please help me.
BTW this is my second account here, with my previous account i cant not ask any questions here, I want to know what are the reasons to close someones account, I am only here because I need help, and I dont want to waste anyones time. I come here to ask a question and then, some one comes and just does something to my account and I dont even know why they do that. So what is the point of this website if you close some ones account???
When consider Jquery Mobile and webapp-net, JM is elder and is coming from rich and stable family, that never ment webapp is poor, but you have much recourses and help from the net if u start ur work with JM.