The stock ApplicationBar only seems to support circle icons with optional text menu items. I'd like to get the design that you can see when you go to Settings -> email+accounts -> add an account and select Google, Facebook or Hotmail. There is one rectangular "next" or "sign in" button. Thanks for any pointers!
The is no support for rectangular buttons in the application bar in the SDK. You can fairly easily create a similar effect using a XAML Grid at the bottom of your page.
However watch out that if you use a TextBox to enter text on your page, then the onscreen keyboard can cover your buttons, confusing your users. In that case you're better sticking to normal app bar circular buttons.
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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'm migrated from iOS dev to WIndows Phone dev and I have stumbled upon a problem.
I need to implement a side menu, that looks like the one in facebook app in ios. It shpuld slide from left to right. It should contain about 10 buttons (ListView). Presign the button should cause chaning the view (navigate to other xaml file)
Because of the huge difference between Windows Phone controls and iOS controls I want to ask an advice on how to better implement such menu. I've heard about aproach using Panorama. But would it look pretty?
I mean I'll have 10 different XAML files with different content. In each of them I'd have to add Panorama control and add the menu. And when I navigate to other XAML would it look nice? because it would close menu without any animation.
So please tell me what is the better approach in impelementing what I want? And how to navigate properly between all the XAMLs without loosing the animation of the menu. And of course how to avoid duplicating code in all the XAMLs? I guess XAML files could not be inherited. And of course I need it to support both WIndows Phone 8 and 8.1.
Thank you very much for you attension!
Here this a blog that will help you implement side menu like Facebook app. Link Hope this helps.
I just implemented something similar in my Dictionary app (http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appId=9f31b733-8c7b-e011-986b-78e7d1fa76f8). You will see that when you click the favorite or history icons on the top, it slides in a panel from the right. I implemented this by adding another Grid to the page whose left margin is set to the width of the page so that it basically sits to the right of the page, out of user's view. When the user taps one of the icons on top, I run a DoubleAnimation with a StoryBoard which does TranslateTransform on the X coordinate of the Grid and runs the StoryBoard for a duration of 3.5 seconds to give the user the perception of slide-in animation.
As far as having the same slide-in menu on each of the pages go, you have 2 options:
(a) Create the sliding panel as a user control and add it to each of the pages and on click of an item inside the panel, go to the second xaml page with the slide-in menu open and start the transition to hide it, or
(b) Create multiple grids within the same xaml page and simply hide/display the right one at the right time.
I believe you are speaking about the popular hamburger menu.
You can very well use the SlideView library. Here is the link,
https://slideview.codeplex.com/
The SlideView, a control allowing to slide between panels (2 or many more)
The SlideApplicationFrame, a control to use at top app level and packaged to display 3 panels with navigation occuring in the middle panel
The AutoHideBar, a control which is displayed when scrolling up in a list, and hidden when scrolling down
How to implement a navigation bar like the facebook app for wp8
I want to implement a navigation bar for my wp8 app, it look like the facebook app for windows phone 8, Click on the left menu to slide profile pages ... or Swipe left to show profile page, swipe right to show friend.
My idea is host 3 pages (Profile Page, MainPage, FriendPage) on a phoneapplicationframe, when use click on the profile icon the Profile Page will be visible and the Mainpage will be margined to left ... , It is possible? How can i do it.
Any feedback will help me so much. Please help me, i'm stucked here.
Thanks you.
I've blogged about a possible solution for this, but I have to agree an usercontrol would be a better option!
http://depblog.weblogs.us/2013/07/30/facebook-like-settings-pane-with-gestures-windows-phone/
I believe it was only one single page whose width is more than the screen's width. And the default view is achieved by setting the margin or other property which is for you to findout using trial and error.
First, create a custom control/user control as design same as profile icon pressing profile page.
Then, drag it onto your main page. and set it margin properly how you want.
When you press the profile icon button. Then only you need to show it and collapse it when tapping screen.
I create the Application Bar with 4 icon Buttons and 3 normal menus. It's working fine.
But i don't want, the circle around the icon button. How can i remove that.
And another one question is how to see the icon button text in normally. That means i click the more icon that time icon button visible. But i want no using more button and want to see the icon button text. It's Possible.
Please Help Me.Thanks In Advance.
you cannot remove the circle, neither you can "expand" the application bar so you can see the labels of each button. It is simply against the Windows Phone UI.
But as it is .NET, you can easily create your own buttons bar at the bottom of your page. Of course, it might be difficult to implement the UI logic for you menu items so they behave like the native application bar does (you could consider using the build-in application bar for you menu items and set its mode to "Minimized").
But: why would you do all this? In my opinion, apps should follow all UI guidelines and should all look the same (especially when compared to native apps) ;-)
Greetings
I see this type of menu all over the Internet as a way to filter out data:
Does it have a specific name? I'm particularly interested in seeing how the pushed in effect is achieved. I've gone through the Chrome developer tools but viewing the CSS applied Chrome only returns a few classes and not the id of the element.
The menu type does not have a specific name as far as I know (although for all effects and purposes it is a set of radio buttons).
The pushed in effect is caused by an inset shadow and darker background color.
Here is a JSFiddle.
That menu is from Google maps.
It is what I might call an "icon" menu.
Buttons are not pushed in.
Instead, the images are swapped in and out depending on what is chosen.
Javascript is used to change the images and the content below the images.
Use Chrome and go to Google Maps. Type in an address and then click Get Directions. Once the buttons appear, right click on one of the button and choose Inspect element. That will show you the code that Googe is using.
The pushed effect is simply an image applied to the element when it's clicked
They're usually done with sprites
Here are some sprites from google
When the image is hovered/clicked a different spot on the image is used as the background for that element.