I have this requirement where i have to show a menu when users slide their finger down the screen. Just like viewing notifications in android and iOS.
If not the same thing may be any alternatives that i can use.
I'm new to windows phone development.
Please help.
While it can be done on your own, it's a pain to do well, and Telerik has already done this - check out their Data Bound ListBox control - http://www.telerik.com/products/windows-phone/overview/all-controls/databoundlistbox.aspx
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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
In Windows Phone 8 I was using PhotoChooserTask to get images from phone gallery and when I fixed Pixel width and height automatically windows phone start a page for cropping the selected image. Can someone tell me how to enable this option with FileOpenPicker?
Unfortunately the Windows phone 8.1 SDK does not have this operation, and I swear I tried look for it in every where, and the people of MDSN tell me it is impossible.... But you can try two options:
First: In the workflow of FileOpenPicker the user has two options take a image file already exists or take a new picture like the follow pic:
So in this case you do nothing and talk to UX area that is impossible to do =) .
Second: You can create a module(separated project) in the same Project Solution which uses the Windows Phone 8.0 SDK (instead 8.1). Do what you need to get the job done using the PhotoChooserTask... After in the main project add a reference to it and be happy.
Some big projects are using this solution because the 8.1 SDK removed a lot of features of 8.0 SDK and did some things hard to do.
One project you should take a look in the source code is https://telegram.org/apps
I hope it helps.
Good Luck!
Recently Tapatalk updated their app and a new menu appeared, which I haven't seen before.
Does anyone know what this menu is called?
There is an image in the top left corner which is 3 orange horizontal lines, when you press on it a menu pops out from the left.
I am trying to write my own app and wanted to use this.
I have seen it in a few apps now.
I would upload an image but I am unable to at the moment
From what I can see in the app screenshots, this is a quite typical menu which slides in from the left in many Windows Phone apps these days. It can also be seen in Facebook, for example.
There is a good blog post explaining how to implement that written by Dan Ardelean:
Add side menus to an Windows Phone application (similar to the Facebook app)
It comes down to using gestures (or button click) to bring a part of the app into view.
You could also make a Flipview with 3 pages (FlipViewItems), it would be almost the same as the Facebook app
I have a windows 8 app, in which i show the list of students as tiles. When a tile is tapped on, the app bar opens which give the option to edit. My question is; when the tile is tapped, is it fine to go to the Edit window rather than opening the app bar. Does windows 8 app guidelines allow this.
I have gone through the windows 8 guidelines but it has left me confused if its the right way or not.
Thanks in advance.
I think the best way to do this must be that on click of the tile you should open the edit window. And the appbar must have only add button, so that in case the user wants to add a student he can do so through the app bar. I feel this is the correct user experience.
I published app with game center achievements to app store. Achievements were working and updating. I made a bug fix in non-game center code class and submitted the updated app version to store. Now, I've noticed when I run the new version updated from the store, the game center no longer shows the app achievements button. With the first version of the app, I had to do a lot of configurations thru iTunes Connect to define my leader board and achievements but with the update nothing changed so I left things alone. Did I miss a step? The updated version is showing the high scores correctly but the achievements are not showing. In fact, when i enter game center directly and look for my app, the Achievements button in game center isn't even present for my app like it was in the first version and above the app title it displays, "No Achievements"
App target is iOS 6 for dev in objective-c with 4.3 backwards compatibility for iPhone. I used the iPhone 6.0 simulator and a iPhone 4 for testing.
I've searched your FAQ and couldn't find anything about updated app submissions, so hope you can help. If I missed something, a link will work but I really need to fix this problem since the app is "live".
Thanks for any help offered.
P.S. The simulator shows my achievements button. :(
Found my answer elsewhere. I did miss a step. Turns out Achievements must be re-selected and enabled for an app each time you upload a version even when you're not changing anything. Thankfully, they have a "select all" option. Looks like I'll be releasing another version just to re-enable my achievements. sigh...