I have a question: How can I make an app like those you can make with MakeMyApp by thirdlabs?
I want a panoramic app (you can choose this in Visual Studio 2010 for Windows Phone) and one page for every single thing. One page should access a Twitter Account, one should access a YouTube channel, one page for a Facebook account, one page for a Flickr account and one page for RSS News. And I want to have a Background picture in the app. How can I make such an app? Please help me I wanna learn how to program apps for WP7.
Sounds like you haven't done any development before. I don't know what MakeMyApp is, but if you're really interested in developing for Windows Phone, here are some places to check out.
This is the main developer hub. Register here, find educational resources, check on your apps ... Everything. http://create.msdn.com
These are the quickstart guides that got me through my very first app. You'll also want to check out msdn's Channel 9 for more education. http://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/quickstarts
And get used to going here when you need to know how to use a certain method or class. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library
Good luck!
No, I haven't. I developed some apps for Android but I'm new to developing for Windows Phone 7
MakeMyApp is a place where you can make a WP7 app online and then use it on your phone for 72 hours through their own app. But their app doesn't work on Mango and the limitation to 72 hours is really annoying. You can check out their website here. It's very easy. All you have to do is upload a .png file for the tile, a bigger .png file for the background, give your App a name and then you can choose if you want to get news through RSS, videos from a certain YT channel, photos from Flickr or updates from FB and Twitter. And for all those things you can specify an "account" to get them from. E.g. you wanna have YT-Videos from the Annoying Orange you can choose YouTube, then type in YT-Acc or whatever and then you can type in realannoyingorange as YT-Username. And voilà, you've got an app with the YT vids from the realannoyingorange channel.
I just thought that that would be kinda easy to program...'Cause the only thing my app has to do is access a certain account from Twitter, FB, YT...
But thanks for those pages. I already know them and I have read a little bit, too. But it's a LOT to read
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I'm sure these have been asked multiple times but as a devoted 6.5 user who dabbles in android for gaming I am wondering, what are the benefits of WP7 over 6.5? I know its more locked down and blah blah but I didnt ask for the negatives. I don't expect a phone to be perfect in its first rendition, the original android was lame. I am absolutely in love with the UI so I want to know what kind of cool features it has (other than xbox live of course.)
Also I'm currently heavily theming my phone. If anyone has an image of the little arrow in the circle on the WP home page I'd much appreciate if I could get my hands on it. Thanks again guys.
Just want to know if I should get the venue pro or just grab whatever android phone is top o' the line that week.
The greatest benefit, in my opinion, is the consistency in handling and design.
Even the apps are fitting perfectly because of the design guidelines that MS is giving.
WP7 is all about gorgeous design, fluid animations, exact feedback and easy usage.
I mean, I used WM5 up to WM6.5.3 and it was great but WP7 is awesome -it saves me a lot of time of customising, flashing and bugfixing, so I may concentrate on the important things in life and still don't have the feeling to miss anything.
WP7 is the latest operating system that in my opinion can now take on Android and iOS.
It may be locked down but it does have some really good apps for example Netflix. There will be a big update which will add quite a few features and the UI is smooth and looks amazing.
I enjoy:
People hub - great idea. I synced Facebook, LinkedIn and several other sites on Windows Live and boom, it shows up in my people hub. People hub automatically integrates with all smart links to call/email/sms people and post on their facebook/windowslive or linkedin accounts as well as showing their profile pic when they call.
Zune. Hands down pure win. Some minor bugs with crashes in marketplace right now but other than that the best music experience on the go ever. zunepass ftw
xbox live - great interface, great experience and great games. prices are affordable and games seem to be well designed & thought out and perform great!
Netflix = pure win
apps - Growing app market.. of course in the 1.x days so apps are fluid and missing some features but some have pulled off the UI nicely such as IMDB and others. Foursquare needs a little more functionality but has the basics
office 2010 - it just works.. creating documents is sort of "meh" but being able to see working documents and update them is nice
What i hope gets fixed / feature req:
RIght now "share" context menus aren't consistent - some will let me SMS something, others focus on email. Wouldn't mine "Sharing" the album i'm listening to on twitter or facebook at times so on and so forth.
zune stream to xbox like zune hd does - would be nice
ebook/audio book store in zune
more tightly integrated services in the cloud - filtering, lists, ability to sync skydrive with local content more easily - bookmarks, favorites, docs. "sharepoint light" built into windows live maybe?
I dont really think anything will "bring down" android so to speak but iphones on its way out and its about time that theres a new leader of phones of that nature (locked OS.) I will likely be getting wp7 but yeah umm, does anyone have access to that image? I've been hunting for quite some time now.
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zune stream to xbox like zune hd does - would be nice
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You can already do this, you just need XBox Live Gold. There is a trial, try it and see. It works.
ebook/audio book store in zune
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I wish they wouldn't. Just use Amazon. There's tons of books in the Android Market that do nothing but clutter up search results (search for Microsoft, for example).
Leave books to people who deal with books and deal with Apps and Games, IMO.
more tightly integrated services in the cloud - filtering, lists, ability to sync skydrive with local content more easily - bookmarks, favorites, docs. "sharepoint light" built into windows live maybe?
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There is Windows Live SkyDrive. They just need an App to allow you to browse you SkyDrive folders without using a browser, IMO.
Syncing Skydrive with local content is sketchy. Carriers may not like that at all due to data usage, and some users can go over their data limit if they aren't paying strict attention to that.
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I wish they wouldn't. Just use Amazon. There's tons of books in the Android Market that do nothing but clutter up search results (search for Microsoft, for example).
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Amazon is proprietary so i don't consider them an option
Leave books to people who deal with books and deal with Apps and Games, IMO.
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There is no reason they couldn't embrace B&N, Borders or Amazon as an ebook marketplace. They could extend it from zune to bing to the desktop.
There is Windows Live SkyDrive. They just need an App to allow you to browse you SkyDrive folders without using a browser, IMO.
Syncing Skydrive with local content is sketchy. Carriers may not like that at all due to data usage, and some users can go over their data limit if they aren't paying strict attention to that.
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They should have "wifi" only features - such as sync/mesh support. They already have automagic skydrive upload for images - i wish they would allow that to queue up for when wifi is enabled to save bandwidth
Is that true Zune is RESIZING pictures when synced from PC to the phone?
So if I have like 8mpx photo it gets resized to a smaller size??!
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Is that true Zune is RESIZING pictures when synced from PC to the phone?
So if I have like 8mpx photo it gets resized to a smaller size??!
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might depend on the size of the photo. Downloaded a pic off of photobucket, it synced to my computer and wasn't compressed or resized at all.
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might depend on the size of the photo. Downloaded a pic off of photobucket, it synced to my computer and wasn't compressed or resized at all.
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You mean downloaded from the internet?
I was just asking about Zune sync. I mean let's say I have a big photo
I want to put it on my phone through Zune, I've heard it will be resized if it's big.
Hello people, i present you a new Augmented Reality App on the Android Market:
FriendsRadar is a mobile App with which you can find your friends* in the easiest way with the augmented reality view (AR). Think about that, how many times are you in a place trying to meet some friends but you can not locate them (Don't be afraid about localization, we considered your privacy concerns, therefore you can activate your GPS for few minutes then turn it off, you can select what friend can receive your position, etc., YOU have the control).
You also have the GoogleMaps view like GoogleLatitude to locate yourself and your friends, and a ListView where you can manage your 5 or 300 friends.
One click over the friends and you can chat with them, send them a SMS, EMAIL or call them too.
It works on all Android (1.6 Version and beyond) mobile devices that have an Internet connection and a GPS receiver.
*The App works at the moment with google accounts. In the future others will be supported, so rate it according to it, be fear please!
Do you have pics or a video of it in action? It sounds cool I'd just like to see how it works
How can I insert here a picture?
I think like because I'm a new user here i cant post outside links, so you can search for the FriendsRadar page on facebook, there are some pictures, or google it.
friendsradar said:
How can I insert here a picture?
I think like because I'm a new user here i cant post outside links, so you can search for the FriendsRadar page on facebook, there are some pictures, or google it.
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You need to get to 8 posts to be able to place links.
Or you can upload to other albums such as picasa or imageshack,then post the image URL.
Appbrain Link
Excuse me.
Where can I download this app in the mobile page?
I wanna try this.
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Market? or
via the above link and "Download directly from the Android Market"
I've seen a few App Requests posted as threads here, and I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread dedicated to act as a catchall for App Requests. I gather that we have Dev Dudes from major tech corps roaming around these halls, so why not have a list of apps we want as consumers easily available to them!
I'll kick things off with these requests:
-A good, integrated guitar/bass tuner with metronome and practice timer(s)
-Adobe Camera RAW interface
-Adobe Bridge for tablets
-VLC Player for tablets
-DJ mixing software that can use headphone output and HDMI [audio] separately for cue/mix output
Feel free to point us to apps that fill requests as they are developed or if they have existed before the request
Way to develop/compile your own android programs.... (or at least just do the developping/autocomplete, etc would be AWESOME!) and well. an app that could launch a ubuntu distro
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Way to develop/compile your own android programs.... (or at least just do the developping/autocomplete, etc would be AWESOME!) and well. an app that could launch a ubuntu distro
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Check this out: http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/
I'd like an app that you can instantly take a snapshot of the screen or take a camera snapshot and start to annotate on it right away, e.g you were browsing and came across something of interest and you want to add your own comments and underline or mark a specific area.
I know this can be done using repligo or ezpdf however it will involve a few steps to achieve using the Asus's in built snapshot feature and then converting the document to pdf in order to annotate but I want something instant without having to convert the file first, similar to htc flyers note taking app.
Can't you do this with Evernote? I just downloaded this last night but it seems really slick.
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I'd like an app that you can instantly take a snapshot of the screen or take a camera snapshot and start to annotate on it right away, e.g you were browsing and came across something of interest and you want to add your own comments and underline or mark a specific area.
I know this can be done using repligo or ezpdf however it will involve a few steps to achieve using the Asus's in built snapshot feature and then converting the document to pdf in order to annotate but I want something instant without having to convert the file first, similar to htc flyers note taking app.
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I want a great football (soccer that is!) game! Fifa 12 or something! or Sometihng like Sensible Soccer, I tried tiny football but its not that great.
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Can't you do this with Evernote? I just downloaded this last night but it seems really slick.
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Unfortunately, you cannot annotate using evernote although it is fantastic for taking notes, i use it at work at meetings. I want to be able to take a snapshot of the meeting agenda which is usually printed and then start to add notes against agenda items.
I'm just going to make a list of the things I think will make this brilliant - I'm a very small time developer, and don't have the skills to do these, unfortunately:
Something similar to Microsoft Onenote - Drawing/notes/annotations all in one
"Phone Sync" where you pick up your tablet, and it also becomes your phone for SMS, MMS, Calls, and you can share clipboards between the two - This would be brilliant!
Decent Twitter and Facebook widgets
Modified Launcher with resizable widgets, folders - ideally, LauncherPro optimised for Honeycomb.
I'd like to see the Monkey Island games and some of the old Cinemaware titles such as Defender Of The Crown on Android.
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I'd like to see the Monkey Island games and some of the old Cinemaware titles such as Defender Of The Crown on Android.
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You can play the monkey island games nicely using ScummVM.
http://www.scummvm.org/
I designed an Android app for tablet which I think would be pretty easy to make, UI, name, logo and all, but... I'm not a programmer. Also I believe this will be an app which would be handy for a lot of people.
Since I designed, thought of and branded the app I really don't just want to give the idea away to anyone, but if any app developer is interested feel free to contact me and I could explain the concept to them.
PS: I don't want a share of the profits or to get paid for it or anything like that, all I would want is to find a developer who could do justice to not only the concept but also to the design since there are so many well functioning but terrible looking android apps.
Excellent posts!
Thanks for the interest and the activity on the thread!
I'm watching a thread where a couple Asus dev dudes have actually weighed in on an issue users are having, so I'm gonna see if I can't point them to this one so we'll have some ears that can make a difference. Hopefully some [all?] of the ideas here will filter thru and become reality!
Kudos to everyone!
I'd like an app that can sync via bluetooth (not via the web/cloud), incoming sms messages/caller id/missed call info, from an android phone directly to the transformer with notifications.
I know there are lots which do it via the web, but this isn't an option for me (pre-pay sim not contract).
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Another idea for an app, don't know if possible to implement or not. When browsing google search results it would be nice to have an app that lets you see how many kilobytes or megabytes a website requires you to download, before you accessed the page. So that mobile users can see how much data is required and can manage their free allowance better, or not be charged a fortune.
A media player app that can
1. have gesture controls like moboplayer
2. have good codec support like moboplayer
3. can stream from server
4. and can hide the honeycomb taskbar!!!!
Settlers of Catan map generator
Would be cool to see a Settlers of Catan map generator with support for Seafarers, Cities and Knights, Harbours and a roll counter.
did it ever occur to anyone that now that there is a keyboard and mouse capabilities that someone should port an fps to the transformer?
I would love an app/widget that monitored the battery of both the Transformer and the keyboard dock. It's almost impossible to tell how much juice is left in the keyboard. If someone knows of an app/widget or a built-in way to do that, please let me know.
Edit: I would also love to see a folder app that integrates data from the Market, so if I download a game, it automatically adds it to the Games folder, etc.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk
Eye-Fi for Android
I'd like to see a version of the EyeFi manager/control center for Android
still hunting for the torrent app to work with private torrents
alternate keyboard
since the dock is still in short supply it would be nice to have the ability to use my android phone as a keyboard/trackpad for my transformer through bluetooth or something. the entire screen could be a landscape keyboard that you could swipe down to access trackpad.
ok let me start off by saying we our proud to finally release our version of videotonez,
here's some changes we made since last year:
Over 1,000,000,000 Mp4 Videos (includes music,sports, events & almost any video you can think of)
Social Feature that lets you Share your selections easily with friends via Twitter & Facebook
RSS Music News Feed
Full Screen Option
Create your own Videotone and assign to specific contacts
We also made it Compatible with almost all Samsung Galaxys and the new Samsung Infuse.
I hope everyone enjoys it, and can take a couple of minutes of their day to give us some feedback on any issues or errors you get.
The app is Ad-Supported which obviously makes it free!
To find the app in the Android Market just search for "Muz"
Video Tutorial is also in the Description if you need any help setting up the app and etc.
mobisoftcorp said:
ok let me start off by saying we our proud to finally release our version of videotonez,
here's some changes we made since last year:
Over 1,000,000,000 Mp4 Videos (includes music,sports, events & almost any video you can think of)
Social Feature that lets you Share your selections easily with friends via Twitter & Facebook
RSS Music News Feed
Full Screen Option
Create your own Videotone and assign to specific contacts
We also made it Compatible with almost all Samsung Galaxys and the new Samsung Infuse.
I hope everyone enjoys it, and can take a couple of minutes of their day to give us some feedback on any issues or errors you get.
The app is Ad-Supported which obviously makes it free!
To find the app in the Android Market just search for "Muz"
Video Tutorial is also in the Description if you need any help setting up the app and etc.
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Thanks Bro!!
Enjoy the app!
Hi the app sounds cool. I can't seem to find it on the market though when searching "muz".
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heres the link https://market.android.com/details?id=ms.muzmobilevideo.android
Hi,
Over the last few weeks I have been working on an app called Helix. Helix lets you manage your Facebook Pages, Tumblr, and Twitter accounts. Falcon Pro and Buffer helped inspire the UI design.
I want to get the core experience done first before I start adding features, so I am going to be doing alpha testing for a few weeks. This is what I have implemented currently:
Multiple accounts (Facebook Pages, Twitter, Tumblr)
Full Twitter Client
Schedule updates to post at a later time
Offline mode. You can like, comment, favorite, reblog, and retweet posts when you are not connected to the Internet. These can be scheduled, or uploaded immediately as soon as you have a connection
Bit.ly support for URL shortening
Multiple material design themes
By version 1 full tablet support will be added.
To get Helix, join this Google+ community here: https://plus.google.com/communities/115166096421387334758
Reserved.
looking forward to when you post the APK
Hi,
Can you check it now? I posted it. I thought it would be OK by just linking to the Google+ community.
All set up and beta testing now! Looks like a very, very nice start. Its mostly read- only at the moment, correct? Really looking forward to when you start adding messaging, following/unfollowing folks, etc
I have a bunch of devices so I'll test on everything. Let me know if you need anything specific!
Its mostly read- only at the moment, correct?
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Sorry but what do you mean? If you go to the main screen of the app, there is a white comment icon where you can update your status (as well as on your Twitter feed). If you go to the dot icon menu on your Twitter feed, you can search and follow people. Maybe I'm misunderstanding you?
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