I am wondering if it is possible to create a master app or suite or container (not sure what to call it) to house multpile apps? I am working in Flash using as3 and packaging as air.
I am working on creating multiple apps for a company and they would like to have an app that when you click on it, all of the apps the person has downloaded from the company would appear inside of it. Keeping all of that companies apps on your device in one location, easy to find. For example, the kindle app. It is one app on your device that when you click on it, it opens up and displays all of the books you have chosen to download. You click the book you want and it opens up. Any ideas?
I don't want to package all of the apps together because I want the person to be able to choose which apps they want to download. I have no clue where to start on this one.
Sorry if my explanation is kind of confusing but I appreciate any help. Keep in mind I am fairly new at this stuff. Thank you!
If your idea is to target iOS then no, you can't. Because it's not allowed to load extra code from anywhere else but the app's own directory so you have to package everything into one app. Android may be a different story though.
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I want to create a web app(for practicing my skills) that will help in conducting online exams. So I want to ask that is there any way to find out the following things---
Is there another page opened in the chrome (if yes then which)
Is there is another application running in the background (if yes then which)
Is user switching between tabs/applications/desktops etc.
Basically, I just want to create an app that just keeps track of users' activity when the user is giving an exam.
And if you have any of the solutions to the above problems then please tell.
Since most things you want to access are considered private data, it is not directly possible in a Web App, except the page visibility. But you can write a browser extension, which is at least allowed to access data within the browser. For information beyond the browser you should consider a native application or some embedded solution like React Native, Xamarin, or Electron, to name a few.
To get the info if the user is currently using the tab your Web App is running in, use the Page Visibility API:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibility_API
For accessing information about other tabs and browser internal stuff, write an extension:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API
Basically, my question is the same than this topic but it's now 2018. So, how can I still have ECMAScript executed on my phone (to send geolocation position) even if it is asleep? We now have Open Web Apps and Progressive Web Apps (PWA) with service workers, even Apple is jumping in, I'm sure there are ways to do that.
While we can hope that things should've changed on this, unfortunately, it has not.
This article from Google on PWA GeoLocatoin API dated Jan-2018 says clearly that this API works "only while the page is open".
Why not available yet (in my opinion)? Thinking of users privacy, it makes sense. Think of tons of wep pages we visit and for how many we tend to five permission accidentally or we intend to give for a while(until we finish some transaction/booking). Currently there is no way for us to go and check on all location permissions that we've given to web sites in a browser, like we do for Native/Hybrid apps and having option to change it.
We can expect to have tracking option for PWA when it is installed to home screen, where native app like permission handling will be possible to user.
End of the story, we are not there yet!!
Alternate option: While you can use navigator.geolocation.watchPosition to track the user when he is actively using the app, You can complement your app with a separately installed (Native) Android service to update the users location to your back end server, till PWA supports naively.
I want to remove/hide my app from the public Windows Phone Store.
In the Windows Phone Dev Center, on the app page, there are two different options:
Hide app in Store
Unpublish
What is the difference between these two? How should I choose, or maybe do both?
Hide from Store: The app is in a unlisted state, this means users can't find it using built-in seach function of the Store, moreover the app won't apper in Store spotlight. Actually users are still able to download/rate it and, if search engines (Google, Bing...) indexed the Store page, users will easily reach that page.
Unpublish: It really removes the app package you previously uploaded, so that new users won't be able to download it. However,
neither this option can perform a forced uninstall of the app from
users who have it on their phones. If they decide to uninstall it,
they can reinstall as your app still appear under "My
Apps" section of the Store.
So I would exclude the first option, usually it's used when you want to limit distribution of the app. Go with the second one, but keep in mind that old users can use the app whenever they want.
Hiding an app only removes it from the search. Someone who knows the direct url to your app will still be able to download it. Unpublishing removes the app entirely, making it impossible to be found or downloaded.
If you unpublish the app, it'll be hidden de facto, so you don't have to do both.
Can an app access and create a specific folder in the Windows phone 8 environment? I'm looking at building an audiobook player app and want to allow the user to drop these into an audiobook folder on the phones drive itself instead of mixing with the music folder. Could an app at least read from a specific folder outside its isolated storage?
Secondly, if so, is there any equivalent of the ".nomedia" file in Android that my app could insert into the folder to exclude the audiobook folder from being scanned by the music players on the phone?
I'm struggling to find the appropriate documentation that will answer my questions, as most documentation seems specific to WP7
RE: .nomedia file
Overall what you're asking for isn't supported and isn't complimentary to the zen of WP8. While I understand your need to create a unique music experience the WP8 media ecosystem is centered around the Music+Video hub and apps should work with it. Creating an experience like you were describing would just feel disjointed and jarring on WP8.
RE: letting users drag & drop files in file explorer
Some WP8 phones support having a Micro-SD card added to the phone. That uSD card can be accessed from File Explorer and WP8 apps can read files from it. The uSD card can have a folder called "Music" which would be used by the Music+Video app and invisible to 3rd party apps. However, your app can read any files that aren't in those uSD reserved folders. You can signup to file extensions but most media WP8 file extensions are reserved for 1st party experiences.
RE: Music Hub Integration
Please make sure to integrate your music player into the Music+Video hub otherwise it'll likely get downvoted to oblivion.
I have an existing Android app project which has been already published on the Google Play, and now I would like to incorporate in my app the possibility to use the Google Drive possibilities in order to download *.jpg files directly to the sd card when the app is opened or load for the first time. Like this I liberate the internal memories of the phones where this app is installed (All the images are stored in the resources of the app actually which is >~ 20MB). I have read a lot of forums concerning the Google Drive SDK or API subjects and I can say that I'm a little bit lost on the manner to manage it for my present app. Some ideas or suggestions would be very very very appreciated.
Thank you very much).
Please see this question for the basics on how to integrate your Android app with Google Drive SDK: Access to Google Drive from self implemented Android application
In it, I reference a good Google+ tutorial on how to get started, and it's easy enough to take the concepts and apply them to an existing app. (That's how I did it too.) Before you get started, sign up for the Google APIs (https://code.google.com/apis/console/), get into the API Console, and turn on both the Google Drive API and Drive SDK. This'll make coding go a lot smoother. Let me know if you have any problems.
One addendum for your specific case relating to *.jpg files is you could set a MIME type for fetching strictly the pictures. It'd go something like this:
request = service.files().list(); // .setQ("mimeType=\"text/plain\"");
Unfortunately setQ is commented out because it would fail to return any results when I used it. However, you may have better luck with the image/jpeg MIME type.