I am developing a windows Phone Application. I have a pop up displayed when an icon is tapped on the screen. That pop has a cross icon on the top right corner so that user can tap on the cross icon and pop up gets closed?
Pop also gets closed when user presses the hardware back button.
I want to ask if it is OK to place a cross icon on pop up windows because there is two way to close the same pop(from hardware back button and from cross icon)????
Is it OK from Windows Phone Certification certification point of View.
From certification point of view its not a problem as long as the back button also does the same.
Just remember that many users have had WP for a while and you as a developer are expect to support native mechanisms while doing every thing you want to do on top of it.
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I'm implementing Accessibility in my application. Here's the scenario :
I have 4 buttons arranged horizontally at the very top of the screen (Activity). On the click of a button, I'm launching an Alert Dialog which displays something to the user. With the alert being displayed, I will still be able to perform click operations on those 4 buttons at the top of the screen. When I turn ON TalkBack (Android Accessibility Service) in Android device and click on that button, alert is getting displayed but I'm unable to move the focus (a yellow rectangular box which will be there when TalkBack feature is turned ON in Android phone) to those 4 buttons. Please help!
Try to set the below properties to your buttons
android:importantForAccessibility="yes"
android:focusable="true"
You won't be able to do it with a dialog, you'll need to fake it with a View.
Perhaps you are using the wrong component which is why it sounds odd when you describe it? A picture of your design would help provide some context.
As #aardrian says, the alert dialog is modal and will (and does) block user input from the underlying UI. Clicking away from the dialog or pressing back will dismiss the dialog.
With TalkBack enabled, the user will be able to press the system back button, use the back gesture (swipe down, then left) or select an option within the dialog to dismiss it.
Try to integrate voice control into your application via Accessibility TalkBack
Define 4 buttons, Alert Dialog Box as objects, selected by voice:
button 1
button 2
...
...
I am studying the limitations of voice control of Android smartphone/ device in Blind Mode ( eyes-free)
I want to design a page on windows phone 8.1 which should have 2 pages in a screen.
One page should always be visible.
Second page should come up when user tries to "hold and tries to swap to right on the left corner of the visible screen"
[The Second Page i'm planning to make it as a User control. so that i can put it on different pages as a hidden control and will show up when user tries hold and drag from left to right, action on a page just the way action center shows in phone]
It's same way how action center page comes up when user hold's and drag down the top corner of phone screen windows phone 8.1, but I'm trying to do the same but from the dragging should be from left side of the Screen.
I have tried experimenting with Manipulation methods could achieve the expected result.
Hope i have conveyed my question properly. :)
Please share your thought's.
Thanks.
Your question is not very clear, but is That what you are looking for ?
Application side menu (NavigationDrawer) ?
Checkout this project, see if it suit your need. You need some changes in source to make it work with Windows 8.1
I have 2 pages in my Windows Phone 8.1 app.
The 1st page displays 9 image buttons. Its purpose is to allow the User to enter their 4 digit PIN to proceed to the next screen.
The 2nd page display other information.
I have an image button on my 2nd page that when pressed will take the User back to the 1st page.
If I press that button it will take me to 1st page.
If I then press the back button on my phone it will take me back to the 2nd page.
I had expected the app to exit?
What am i missing from my logic here?
thanks
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 am developing an app. A page showing full image and when you tap on the image, image caption and sound options appear from two opposite sides i.e caption from left and sound options from right with translate animations.
I want to be clear about that when I press back button, I can navigate to back page or I have to make those options disappear first and then again press back key to go to previous page from microsoft certification point of view?
I believe this is the same since windows phone 7.
You should be allowed to capture the back event and add some code. I don't think that is seen as bad practice, you just aren't allow to stop it.
Saying that, I don't think you can easily do a double back. you might have to check.
Here is a fairly useful post on the subject:
WP7: navigate twice back
which leads to another post about navigating the stack:
http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2010/12/13/solving-circular-navigation-in-windows-phone-silverlight-applications.aspx