I'm trying to find out if there is a way to programmatically add my app into the allowed lock screen notifications list on Windows Phone 8 / 8.1? Seems like a bit of pain to ask the user to do that themselves.
As far as i know you can't set them programmatically. It's a must for the user to add his app to the lockscreen from the Settingsto show the text notification or the icon.
Lock screen notifications for Windows Phone 8
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I'm writing an emergency app and so I need to allow the user to make phone call in a single tap. All the articles I've been reading so far allows phone call in 2 taps. Is there a way to do that in only one tap?
I want to set my lock screen and background image using c# in windows phone 8.1(WinRT) app.I have a button which jobs is to change lock screen by selecting the image from the gallery or made at runtime .Is there any api or specific tutorial or document available ?
Need help?
There is no way to set the lock-screen wallpaper in a Windows Runtime Phone app at this time - you need to keep using Silverlight to use the lock screen API.
MSDN source
EDIT:
Not applicable to 8.1, but there is now an API for setting the Start Screen and Lock Screen backgrounds in Windows 10 - UserProfilePersonalizationSettings. The API is universal, but it only does something meaningful on Desktop and Mobile (the IsSupported property is true). On other platforms like Xbox, it just fails silently (no exception, but no background is set either).
I am working on WP7 application to track user location. I need to track location with GeoCordinateWatcher (using StatusChanged / PositionChanged events) even when device screen is being locked.
How to do that?
Your question is already well-documented in this MSDN doc (there is even a sample available). In Windows Phone 7, this is not possible - there are a lot of API implications that target only Windows Phone 8.
I am searching a solution to pin an installed app or desktop application to the windows 8 startscreen.
I have figured out to do this like it is described in this post before
There has also been a long disscusion about this problem
But there was no answer to my question:
How can I pin a new tile to a selected position on the startscreen?
If I install a new app/application windows 8 pins the new application at the end of the Startscreen. (windows 8.1 does not)
But if I want to place the tile f.e. in the second group on third position, there is possibilty to do this.
I am in an enterprise environment and I know tools which can provide this out-of-the-box. So there must be a way to do this programmatically, but with all my effort I can find a way.
Its not possible, you can't control where tile will be pinned on start screen.
In my wp8 phone app, I want to show overlay window when a particular action is completed based on certain data a(eg: summary, or game level details).
Is there way to do this in c#?