Can you please share with me what ad network monetization platform are you using for windows phone 8.1? I am interesting in banners mostly (probably I will add soon video too), and as coverage I want to target europe, usa, global (in this order).
I researched a lot on this topic, and I found quite a lot of recommendations, but some of them no longer apply, since many ad networks are dropping support for windows phone :(.
I have tried several, but I am not happy with the results:
AdDuplex - the single one that is reliable
Smaato - the fill rate is extremely low (at its best is 10%. For example currently I have 20k requests a day, and the fill rate is 2.56% over the last 7 days)
Vmax - integrated through Smaato - 0% fillrate (even if I have requests on India)
MobFox - integrated through Smaato - they are serving ~20-30% ads, but none of them reaches Smaato (I am considering using the API from MobFox to see how it goes).
Microsoft Ad - I am not able to make it work. I know they dropped support for AdMediator this year, and I followed their documentation but no luck: the sdk doesn't install, or is missing the control.
AdRotator - I am using this for mediation purposes, but since from the supported networks only few are still supporting windows phone, I will replace this soon with my own mediation algorithm. (Currently I am using AdRotator with Smaato and AdDuplex)
Is there anyone who can help me on this one?
PS: please do not point me to UWP in order to use Microsoft Ad Control, since in my case, most of my users are wp 8.1 (70-80%).
Thanks!
Can you please share with me what ad network monetization platform are
you using for windows phone 8.1?
Based on my personal experience, Microsoft and Ad Duplex network could perform better to my app.
You could refer to Selecting and managing your network.
Since your question intends to be a discussion one which cannot be answered objectively, I'd like to suggest you to open up a discussion thread here and listen to other community's advice.
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First of all, yes, i have read all other similar questions.
Secondly, i am developing app (WP 8.1 WinRT), which must use Beacons. I read a lot about it, and i know, that generally connection with BLE device is not possible without pairing it first. But hope dies last, so i want to ask about any possibilities I have. It is possible to pair devices in code (according to articles I have read - its not, but maybe someone know the way)? Or just obtain nearby Beacons Id or Name, or ANY information about them? All posts i have found are outdated (from last year, maybe MS or somebody released some update/api?) I search for any kind of solution, api or just idea how to avoid pairing problem. Pairing it manually won't work - 1. not sure if it is possible to pair beacons, 2. its too many of them (beacons I need)
I look for anyway to communicate or even obtain beacons.
I would be grateful for any option or idea
While I have not tried it yet, there a developer has built an HCI layer to talk directly to bluetooth dongles on pre-Windows 10 machines. It is available here: WinBeacon
This will only work on desktop machines, and not with mobile phones. If you are interested in mobile phones with Windows 8.x, I do not believe there is any solution. I have spoken with Microsoft engineers who have confirmed this to me.
The fundamental problem with Windows 8.x on mobile devices is that any Bluetooth LE scan operation (which is what must be done to search for beacons) must be initiated by the operating system. There is no public API and no known private API that can be used to initiate a Bluetooth LE scan. Pairing with the device will not help -- it is the scan that is important and iBeacon and similar BLE beacon types do not use pairing at all for their primary proximity detection purpose.
Microsoft engineers have told me there are no plans to add this feature to 8.x, as they want to push folks to Windows 10.
While I know this does not help for Windows 8.x, I will note for the record that for the upcoming Windows 10 release, we are working on a port of the Android Beacon Library to Windows here.
I have created a windows store app. I included ads from Microsoft pubCenter. It has been published today and I downloaded it on my laptop and a friend's. In both occasions the ads only show Microsoft advertising ads. Nothing more, nothing less. I added a simple adcontrol line in my xaml as advised and in application id I inserted what was given in pubcenter and same in ad-unit. Is there something wrong with Microsoft Ads?
Microsoft Ads use an algorithm designed for targeted advertising based off of information they receive from the users of a given application. Sometimes the advertising targets a specific user, sometimes it targets a specific app's demographic.
There are quite a few possible reasons that your app is displaying primarily Microsoft ads. It could be that you and your friend are both prime targets for Microsoft products. It could be that your app's demographic or genre is targeted for Microsoft ads.
It could also be that Microsoft's own ads are the default (likely, I'd think). It may take a bit for the demographics information to be received by Microsoft ads, or any other numerous reasons that the default ads are currently being displayed.
Basically, as of right now, there is nothing pointing at this being your fault. With more datapoints over more time, we could possibly begin to eliminate unlikely causes (such as sync time on a specific device).
I don't think you have anything to worry about now. If your ad revenue is particularly low or otherwise anomalous, then maybe there is some need for concern, but until there is some more information, we can only speculate.
My question is really: Is there an easy way to create graphs in windows phone? (Either in-built or for free)
Could you tell me of any using statements I need to add
Links would be helpful (I couldn't find many myself)
And a basic how-to would be excellent!
The Telerik RadControls produce great graphs - http://www.telerik.com/products/windows-phone.aspx
They also have a WP App that showcases their controls - http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/telerik-examples/fd55f526-d6f7-df11-9264-00237de2db9e
The Telerik RadControls are not free but they are by far, 100%, the best tools on the market. You can get them for free though if you have a couple apps published.
Go to http://www.Dvlup.com and sign up for a free Nokia Developer Account. Link in your developer account and it will import the apps you have made. Then you can submit apps you have made to the challenges they have on there.
As you can see here you can get a Nokia Premium Account Token for 1000pts which is VERY easy to get. With that token you get a free Windows PHone Developer account ($100 value) and a slew of other things like support tokens, Buddy API calls ect. I heard on the Windows Developer Show That you also get a free set of RadControls with this token right now also.
There are lot's of libraries that provide charts for Phone 7 and 8
http://www.infragistics.com/products/windows-phone/features/sparkline/ (Paid)
https://github.com/ailon/amCharts-Quick-Charts (free)
http://www.telerik.com/products/windows-phone/overview/all-controls/chart.aspx (Paid)
Also, other than those listed above, there is a Sparrow Toolkit.
Sparrow Toolkit a set of Data Visualization controls(Chart, Gauge,BulletGraph and Sparkline) with lot of flexibility, performance, faster and more efficient.
http://sparrowtoolkit.codeplex.com/
I'd like to implement Google Analytics tracking on a Windows 8 / Metro app.
There's no Windows SDK.
What would be the best way to do it in your opinion ?
Thanks, best regards
Geoffroy
MarkedUp Analytics for Windows 8 is another option for Windows 8 - it supports both WinJS and WinRT, and even works offline. It's currently free. (Disclaimer: I work on MarkedUp)
Is this something you are looking for?
Here is an article in our team blog on how we solve that issue:
http://dreamteam-mobile.com/blog/2012/08/windows-8-metro-apps-google-analytics/
Here is a good one that with lots of features and activity:
https://github.com/AttackPattern/CSharpAnalytics
If you're creating a new app, you will probably want to use the new Google Analytics SDK for Windows 8 and Windows Phone. Google recently had a major update to GA and added all kinds of snazzy features specifically for apps (vs. websites). Along with this change they scrapped the older UTM protocol and now require the newer measurement protocol for all apps. AFAIK, this SDK is the only one out there that supports the new measurement protocol thereby being the only one that works with new GA mobile app properties. Note: you can still use these other SDKs with existing GA properties or by fooling GA into thinking you're app is a website by providing a verifiable domain name.
Full disclosure: I wrote this SDK and created it for this very reason. It supports Win8 JS, Win8 Xaml, WP7, & WP8.
Many folks do not know that Microsoft gives Telemetry SDK http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/hh967768 as a nuget extension.
You can try it if GA is not a strong requirement.
We ran into the same problem at Nascent, so we created an Open Source project for it.
Check out Google Analytics for WinRT: A pretty simple but powerful Google Analytics client library for Windows Store apps.
Disclaimer: I am the author for Gappalytics
You should try Gappalytics for code/UI event tracking, it is a very simple library which unlocks you a full potential of Google analytics.
It works better than mentioned before lib's because it can persist uniqueness of a user this way your data will not be skewed.
I'm working on a home project that involves comparing images to a database of images (using a quadrant - or so - histogram approach). I wanted to know what my options are in regards to web cams or other image capture devices that:
Are easy to work with with the
Windows SDK (particularly
DirectShow, which I plan to use
with C#)
Have drivers for both
64-bit and 32-bit Windows Vista (and
Server 2008)
I'm asking primarily so I can avoid pitfalls that other people may have experienced with web cams and to see if there are other image capture devices (or C# usable APIs) available that I should look at. I suspect that any old web cam will do but I'd rather be safe than sorry.
If you only want images, many web cams support TWAIN -- you can use with .NET using this code
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/twaindotnet.aspx
I'm doing something very similar with webcams and have found that logitech and Microsoft branded webcams work just fine with DirectShow.
I've also found that many NEW webcams don't support twain, and WIA support for doing live captures has been removed in Vista, and doesn't exist in 2000, so Directshow has been the only thing that seems to work reliably accross OS's.