I am working on a Windows Phone 8 app, and have a question about UI design. Please take a look at the image below:
What I am trying to add to my app is something like the above UI under "recent" tab. That is, some kind of live tile style thing with-in the app.
If anyone has experience about how to build such kind of in-app tiles, please share some idea or code sample.
Thank you
The Windows Phone Toolkit provides a Windows Phone HubTile control:
Here is a tutorial on the Nokia Wiki that explains how to use it.
Use HubTile control from Windows Phone Toolkit library.
There are couple tutorials about that control available, e.g.
http://igrali.com/2011/08/19/how-to-use-the-hubtile-control/,
http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/HubTile_in_Windows_Phone
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I would like to create a ScreenCaptureLib.dll which is intended to be built for Universal Windows.
We already have the following using Windows.Forms:
https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/tree/master/ShareX.ScreenCaptureLib
Obviously none of the Windows Forms code does not work and I would like some pointers in the right direction to get started.
You may follow the official document for Record the screen with ScreenCapture, but please notice that:
The ScreenCapture API is only available on mobile devices.
And for now there is no API can be used directly to capture the screen on a desktop from an UWP app. However, as a workaround method, we can render the XAML tree to a bitmap, to do this, please refer to Capturing Snapshot in Windows 8.1 Store App.
You may also submit a request to add this new feature for developing through the Windows Feedback tool.
Update:
The ScreenCapture feature is only supported for mobile devices running Windows Phone 8.1. This API is not supported on Windows 10.
Guys I am working on a project in which i want to use some graphs. is there any library to make ECG graphs in windows mobile 8.1 application and WPF Application?? I searched on google but i didnt get any help :(
Try too look into Line Chart (LineSeries) from:
WinRTXamlToolkit.Controls.DataVisualization
For me, it's the best free library for drawing graphs in XAML. Also I think this article with examples will be useful for you Using graphs and charts in windows store apps.
I have two simple questions since I'm very new to Windows Phone programming:
1:
How do I cange the root frame, or show a different Page on startup, in a Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight application? I have a LoginPage and then I want to check if the user is logged in show MainPage as root frame and if the user is not logged in show the LoginPage.
2:
Windows Phone Silverlight applications seems so different to me compared to the Windows Phone WinRT applications, or maybe I'm just not experienced enough. For example I can't put a placeholder/hint text in a textBox in Silverlight but it's super easy in WinRT, why is it like that? Isn't that something very basic that many IDE's implements? Or have I missed something mayor when I'm developing a Silverlight application for Windows Phone?
I know that Windows Phone WinRT is used to create universal apps and Silverlight is used to create only mobile apps for Windows Phone, but why is developing a mobile app in Silverlight so much different (at least to me) compared to build a Windows Phone app i WinRT?
For your first question, use the UriMapper.
The basic principle is that you check if the user is logged in or not and based on that, navigate to the correct view.
The code is not all that complicated, there is a very good tutorial up on Shawn Kendrot his blog here...
For question 2, how to add some sort of hint/watermark can be done in several different ways.
But a very simple version is presented on MSDN here... it uses events to set and clear the watermark.
Point 1
You have to go to Package.appxmanifest and under the tab called Application the second field contains the startup page name. Currently it should be MainPage.xaml, just change it to LoginPage.xaml.
Point 2
I don't quite understand your question. Silverlight and Windows Runtime are two different platforms, they have in fact many different libraries. The goal of Windows Runtime is to run the same application on several different devices, so different hardware requirements and different resolutions. It was a need to organize the environment differently and of course Microsoft added some minor changes such as the hint text (e.g.).
What is so different to you? I did the porting of an app from SL to WinRT but it's not difficult nor tricky at all.
I am developing a Windows Phone 8/8.1 Apps, I am able to customize the background of the lock screen and etc. But when I saw the app Live LockScreen beta by Microsoft I found its to be very good and inspire me that I can customize my lockscreen similar kind with standard clock customized and much more improve features.
However I don't know what API it's used, I search in internet - no help.
Any idea how can I get some API so that I can customize my lock screen Apps in Windows Phone, No background change API, but other features like Text, Clock etc.
Thanks
I hope you're aware that, there's no such API being published yet which contains those features like in the Live LockScreen Beta as of now.
Can we use WinRT XAML Toolkit to draw customized graphs in Windows Phone 8.1 apps?
I am trying to find out a tool or a authorized set of APIs to draw charts which can be customized during real time by retrieving data from a database.
http://www.telerik.com/…/w…/overview/all-controls/chart.aspx was given as an option but I think u have to pay for it.
I am looking for a free option.
yes you can use the WinRTToolkit, they even have a Nuget package specific for Windows Phone 8.1, more info on their CodePlex