How beta windows phone 8.1 app. Might sound like a newbie question but bear with me. I have written and app like quite a few others but this is the first app where I want to support wp8.1 and wp10. The app side loaded on to a wp8.1 or wp10 device works fine as expected.
If put into the Windows store as beta with the necessary emails will install on wp10 devices but refuses to install on wp8.1 devices no matter what.
If I put into the store as normal it fails testing with an ungraceful shutdown that I cannot replicate.
I can't install beta to get the crash dumps to find out what's going on. So now am completely stuck.
Any help or advice would be much appreciated.
If you want to publish a beta version to a specific group of people, then you'll need to select the following option :
Hide this app and make it available only to the people you specify
below, who can download this app on Windows Phone 8.x devices. A
promotional code may be used to download this app on Windows 10
devices.
Only the people whose email addresses (associated with their Microsoft accounts) that you enter in the box can download your app by using the direct link to its listing. If you want W10 beta testers, then you'll need in addition to generate promotional code and send each promoted link to your W10 beta testers. Check this link to learn more about beta publishing on Windows Store.
If you failed to install beta version on WP8.1 devices, I can see two reasons:
Email addresses defined in the publisher portal do not match with the one activated on the WP8.1 devices
You tried to install the WP8.1 app immediately after defining the list of Email addresses in the publisher portal. In fact you'll to wait couple of hours before beta version becomes available on devices
Thanks for your answers. But after a long protracted process I finally got through to Microsoft. (If you do't have paid for MSDN support is damn near impossible to talk to anyone) Turns out there was a problem with my dev account. safe to say the issue is now fixed and apps are downloading/installing again
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We are looking to access and use Bluetooth profiles in our WPF application using C# in Visual Studio 2017.
Issue details:
Platform: Windows 10 Pro - version 1803.
Issue brief: We are trying to access Bluetooth profiles via desktop(c#) of connected phones, however on windows 10 the profile show enable but the profiles are not working eg: HFP connects, however, the voice is not heard
We have tested this on following Bluetooth devices:
1.Bluetooth CSR 4.0 Dongle (CSR8510 A10) (Note: this Bluetooth connects and show HFP and works as expected, however, the Bluetooth does not show on the device list and hence we cannot connect programmatically using c#)
2.IOGEAR's Bluetooth 4.0 (Model GBU521W6) (Shows on device list and our application can detect a device, however, HFP is not working as expected both from the application or from normal device section)
Required Profiles:
1.Hands-Free Profile (HFP)
2.Message Access Profile (MAP)
3.Phone Book Access Profile (PBAP)
We have Already Tried with following:
Updating drivers
Tried uninstall install many times
Used android, ios, and windows phone's
Side note: Our application with same code works on windows 7
MAP abd PBAP is not a problem because both are OBEX based (which is RFCOMM).
However there can be some problems with HandsFree. It works great with BlueSoile drivers. But with standard microsoft may not work.
The first step it to use BluetoothSetServiceState with HFP UUID to tell windows to install drivers for your device's HFP profile. If function succeed you should see 2 audio devices appeared in your system: one is Inout and other is Output. You can find them using any media API (DirectSound, legacy API).
To be able to work with PBAP and MAP you need anyhow connect to your device through RFCOMM. WinSock or any other way is good.
Please note that the method above works only with Microsoft Bluetooth drivers. Other drivers (BlueSoleil, Toshiba) have absolutely different API so you have to add it into your application if need to support them.
Or you can simple take a look on BluetoothFramework
I am new in Windows phone development application. I built an app package and use Application Deployment Tool deployed it to devices for testing. But a microsoft account only allows to deploy 3 devices in maximum. I tried The Chinese tool aiyingyong_pc to jaibreak the Windows phone but it not work. Are there any ways to deploy to many devices or any tools can jailbreak the Windows phone?
As far as I know, except for Samsung devices, there is no jailbreak available for Windows Phone 8 (only for Windows Phone 7).
According to Microsoft, you can increase the device limit if you open a support ticket: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/matthiasshapiro/archive/2012/12/14/how-to-register-more-than-3-windows-phones-for-development.aspx
Honestly, I've never tried and the article is more than two years old, so I don't know if it's still true.
Otherwise, the only workaround left is publishing the app as a beta. Though not as convenient, you'll be able to install it on as many devices as you wish.
We will soon have a respectable pool of apps available for our company's employees, we have both flavors: iOs and Android. Those apps have tremendous value for our production and sales teams but are worthless outside the company.
My boss is asking me to develop a server program from which our local mobile users can discover, download and install those apps quick and easy, very much like the App Store and Play Store, but everything inside our local network. I'm not sure if this software is even possible...
Are App Store and Play Store the only possible sources of mobile apps?... If so, which alternatives do I have for this project? If not, please point me in the right direction.
You may want to look into the Enterprise program for iOS:
https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/enterprise/
Another alternative is signing and sideloading with using MacBuildServer. See these for more information:
http://ios.wonderhowto.com/how-to/sideload-install-open-source-ios-apps-your-iphone-using-macbuildserver-without-jailbreaking-0147456/
Side loading iPhone apps to device without certificate
I am a wp8 developer and searching for a way to deploy my app on device "without the cable". I have searched over the web and could find nothing helpful. I know about he "Application Deployment" tool in WP8 SDK and my phone is also Developer Unlocked. I know how to simply deploy an app on windows phone. All i am looking for is to know, Is there any way I can deploy my application to my phone without using the phone cable?
Lets say i dont have my cable with me, what options do I have now?
Currently you can't debug an app on your phone without the USB cable. You can do this when developing for Windows 8.x so perhaps with the coming WP8.1 update we'll get the same feature for the phone..
There is the beta testing you could do for a test deployment through the store but the app will run through the cert. process so this is no option for testing while developing and there is no debugging.
You can only use the cable to deploy to your device. If you dont have a cable with you, just use the emulator.
I am newbie to Apple. I have read many articles and stackoverflow threads but I am very confused. I am developing with XCode and MonoTouch(Xamarin). I am doing the development with C Sharp. I have done an application and I want to install that app to my iPad. I am working on MAC by the way.
According to my readings, I need to have a Apple Developer ID, which costs 99 us dollar. Is there another way to deploy without paying?
In order to deploy the App on to your device you need development certificate (could be created using Keychain Access) and development provisioning profile (which could only be created using Apple's Developer Account) . If you want to deploy your app on to device without these file you need to Jail Break your device but keep in mind that your device will be no more in Warrantee after you Jail break it.
Unless you jailbreak your iOS Device you'll need a Developer ID from Apple.