I used so far the WebBrowserTask in order to open URLs from code in my WP7 app, but I am interested in accessing the links saved in the browser's favorites. Does anyone know if this is possible?
No, I don't think there is any API available in Windows Phone SDK to do so
It's not possible to access the inbuilt app on WP7 unless there is a task available in the API
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I'm planning to write an application in c# in visual stuio 2013 that will allow a facebook user to login and receive their facebook notifications straight to the desktop as popups. Ive searched around and cannot seem to find whether or not it is possible to get notifications from facebook as soon as they happen and react to them in a suitable way, i'm wondering if this is possible and which bits of the api/ sdk i would need to use to get this to work.
Thanks in advance,
Alistair
Reading from the Facebook Developer's page(https://developers.facebook.com/), there isn't any specific SDK to C#, for desktop applications
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But there is a SDK for Javascript, maybe a web application can be an option for you.
Is there any way to detect the source from which the app is downloaded? For example if the app has been downloaded directly from the store or it was redirected to store from some mobile site. Something similar to CampaignTracking in Android. Any library which can detect this?
If you are looking for a Rate & Review mechanism, use the MarketlaceReviewTask class. It is documented here. Here's a simple method to do it:
MarketplaceReviewTask mrktreview = new MarketplaceReviewTask();
mrktreview.Show();
You can fire this code from a click event or something similar. This opens the rate and review page for your app, after it is published in the store. That is all Microsoft is providiing currently to help the developers. If you are looking for detailed tracking or instant bug detection (after the app is published), you can use third party services that can do this. I recommend Appboy.
Unfortunately not.
As distinct from Android, Apps can only be deployed through the store (or a developer sideload) on Windows Phone. But there is no way to recognize whether a website hyperlinked to the store page or the user downloaded it directly via the store application.
I found a few links regarding the same. Flurry provides the support for campaign tracking through its library. A few links help here.
Flurry http://www.flurry.com/
Distimo
http://www.distimo.com/conversion-tracking
Tapstream
https://tapstream.com/developer/windows-phone-sdk-documentation/
https://tapstream.com/developer/conversion-api/
My question is simple, but I cannot seem to find the answer with Google. I'm working on a Windows Phone 8 app and I would like to offer the possibility to share content with certain people in private. I will add a feature to send by SMS, but I would also like to offer the possibility to send a private message in Facebook.
There is a Facebook app for Windows Phone 8 and I wanted to know if there is a way with "App-to-app" communication to have the Facebook app send the message for me. This way, the user could edit the message and choose who to send it to, without my app having to manage this for him. I think it would be a better user experience than using the Facebook API since it would be consistent.
I looked online and there is a way to make a post. However, that's not what I want since my app handles a financial matters. Is there a simple way to do that ?
It depends not on your App but the Facebook App - if it supports such a feature.
In Windows Phone you can for example associate files and Uri's with certain Apps - MSDN source. By this it is possible (I think somehow) to pass a file (message) to other App (if that App supports it). Other problem may be where to save that file - maybe some webservice as IsolatedStorage is a bad idea.
It will be hard workaround, but surely depend mostly not on your App.
In this case I think it will be better to use Facebook API in your App.
Use Facebook to do post function like below
await Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri("fb:post?text=foo"));
Or you need implement an OAuth flow to get Facebook token then do Post by Facebook post API
https://graph.facebook.com//v2.0/me/feed?message=foo&access_token={TOKEN}
I think these are the possible ways to achieve what you want.
Just implemented sharing via SMS, Mail Twitter and Facebook with the from the WP8 SDK provided ShareStatusTask:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/microsoft.phone.tasks.sharestatustask(v=vs.105).aspx
Whatsapp does not seem to be supported here - do you guys know a trick to get around this?
Technically no, not yet, but something may come in the future using Uri Schemes.
For now, it seems that you can only run the WhatsApp app by doing this:
await Windows.System.Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri("whatsapp:"));
but on iPhone, you can use this form of Uri
whatsapp://send?text=Hello%2C%20World!
so I expect the same functionality to appear in the near future in WhatsApp for Windows Phone. There's no reason why they wouldn't implement it.
In fact, maybe they already have, but I haven't found it publicly documented. See on Nokia Developer website for other Uri Schemes
My understanding is that you can only make your App available as a means of photo sharing. (See here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/ff967563%28v=vs.105%29.aspx)
There is no way to share to a particular third party App, unless it has "Extended the share picker" as seen at the link above.
You can share text with whatsapp friends by using following URI scheme:
await Windows.System.Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri("whatsapp://send?text=Hello"));
Who knows how to display the video from website in windows application?
This is the site
I want to write an application to it. Can I do it without knowing API? Or if there is no API.
I will be very grateful for the help.
The most basic way would be to use a WebBrowser control and use an embed link (if it exists) or parse the HTML to obtain the flash object with the correct parameters.