I have a Win PC (8.1) and an Android phone (5.1); the phone is locked. I have a C# app on the PC that does sensing, and alerts when one or more of several events occur. I need to see those alerts on my phone, and although some delay is OK, it needs to happen pretty quickly.
I'm not fussy about how the phone handles the alerts - visually, audibly, or whatever - so long as I'm made aware of them somehow. Any thoughts?
Take a look at the app called 'Tasker'. Also, you can connect remotely to your computer using Google's app called Remote Desktop. Hope you find a way, this is very interesting.
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I'm working on a Windows Universal App that communicates with BluetoothLE heart rate monitors. As of yesterday (related to a windows update, I'm thinking), things appear to be suddenly broken.
Specifically:
When I first pair a HRM device to my computer (in windows settings, not through their API), my app sees the device just fine, and can subscribe to notifications from the GATT Heart Rate Service (through a method close to the code here, in the C# sample.)
In all subsequent connection attempts, the app will detect the device normally, and indicate that it is paired to windows, but the HRM in question has a Device.ConnectionStatus of BluetoothConnectionStatus.Disconnected, and never reports hear rate updates.
If you run the MSDN sample above, you'll see the same thing, even though it's a Windows 8/8.1 sample.
This leaves me in a really sticky spot - I need to be able to communicate with these devices, but as of right now, it appears that I can only do so consistently unpairing the device from windows, and repairing it. That is obviously not acceptable.
I've found a few articles that seem to be tangentially related, but none seem to have found a solution. Help!
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
I have a Windows Store App (Metro) that uses toast notifications. The notifications work beautifully when remote debugging on my WinRT device (Surface 2). However, when running on my desktop in Local Machine or Simulator mode, they are really erratic. Sometimes showing up several minutes later and occasionally not at all. Does anyone know how to fix this?
I have a project wherein i have to create a windows mobile app which synchronize files between two windows phone, provided that the connectivity between two phone should be through WiFi.
Being new to this app development field , i have no idea on where to start and where to look. Is there any sample application present to sync data between two phones without involving any database. And what API should i use. i referred to some tutorials on this website.
This won't be possible without a server between both phones. Microsoft is very restrictive and won't let you access the WiFi connection. Actually you would have to use one of the phones as a WiFi hotspot and the other one as client and this is definitely not possible with an WP app.
I would recommend to write a Windows Service (have a look at WCF) which both phones connect to. This service would have to do all the work which would be:
Wait for phone requests to work with them
Handle the request when a phone wants to synchronize data
Let the second phone know that there are new data to receive
Transfer data to the second phone
Actually there will be more requirements for such a service (e.g. security) you will have to deal with.
Yet, there is a solution because Rudy Huyn connected several Windows phone using the connection Wifi without server http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rl0VHkoOHTA
But I don't know how..
I am trying to track 5 windows phone 7.5 for a experiment and I have try using an app (that I am developing for that experiment) but the app must be active and that's not possible for all readings, I was looking online and I find something similar that Microsoft has done with the find my phone service,
https://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/find
Anyone knows how can i call that service outside the website or any other way to accomplish this task
i need GEO position every 15 min
You are not going to be able to locate the phone unless the application is either running in the foreground or the background on the phone. You can't compare what microsoft is able to do with what you are able to do. They have implemented many things in Windows Phone 7.5 and 8 that a normal developer cannot do. Microsoft is not alone in doing this, nearly all mobile operating systems, have features that are not possible to duplicate as a developer.
Doing a quick search on the matter, I see nothing that should prevent you from running an application in the background, so you can report the location of the phone to a web service of some kind.