When I look at a contact in the Windows 8 "People" app, there are many different options that show up, depending on what data is available.
Some of these are built-in functions, but there are also some that call external programs, such as mapping an address, or linking to facebook.
Is this application extensible in that I might write a plugin to put another option on this page to link into my own app or website with the attached contact data?
As of today, the built-in apps, like the People app, are not extensible.
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I'm developing an application that must share a picture with Facebook.
Following the guidelines of Windows 8, I must use the Share Charm (text, html, image and file). Basically the idea is to build sources apps they can share information and target apps that are capable of receiving this information.
Turning the sample from Microsoft, which allows sharing of information types is only possible to share links with Facebook using People app.
I found three possible solutions to this problem:
1 - Wait for Facebook to launch an official app for Windows 8 to receive all these information types;
2 - Wait for Microsoft to include sharing these types of information in the People app.
3 - Create a target application that implements the Facebook API.
Finally, I would like to know if you have had this kind of problem and how they solved.
Have you tried using this library... Facebook C# SDK
I think it will give you what you want
Is it possible to create two icons (that link to different functionality) for a single install form the app store?
For example, on Android, when you install Google Maps, you get Maps and Navigation. Ideally, both "apps" would have access to the same data, but each icon would link to different and separate functionality.
Thanks!
Not at this time (but I could imagine this happening down the road, if they port PackageMaker to doing iPhone apps).
The user authorizes one signed app to be downloaded and installed and only one icon (for one package) appears.
One way to get around this would be to have two separate apps but both apps call into the same framework (or library or common sourcebase) for whatever functionality is common between the two.
we want to create an internet platform, where for registered users the following is done:
1) Tracking of the applications they open during they are "checked in" on the page
2) Tracking of their web surfing
3) In regular periods a picture is automatically taken by the built-in camera of the laptop (not Smartphone) and uploaded to the platform.
I know, sounds like brave new world;)
Is a server-sided framework like Rails with client code in JQuery sufficient for it?
Or is an own client application in e.g. objective-C for MacOS necessary?
Thanks,
R
You can do 2 using almost any of the web application frameworks + javascript.
1 is impossible unless the there is an application running in the desktop or a browser extension that is communicating with your website.
However the 3 sounds very alarming from a privacy standpoint. But if the users are willing and is aware of it then it's not an issue.
As far as I know, JavaScript does not natively support accessing the web camera. But Flash does!
Fortunately for you there is a library which combines both Flash and JavaScript that can take a web cam snapshot. It's called jpegcam. There seems to be another one called jquery web cam plugin. Also read this question - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3922723/using-a-webcam-with-javascript
My website is really very simple HTML based site. My site is located here: http://www.threesite.com
How can I convert this simple HTML site compatible with iPhone or Droid? Do I need to convert the same into PHP based site and then convert? Your help will be much appreciated.
5 Ways to Create or Convert into Mobile Phone Website.
The easiest way is to use Google's tool, because it converts your existing site automatically. I've tried it on your site and it looks nice.
If you want to tailor the site yourself, you have two options: Building an app or rewriting HTML. A site app makes your site highly customizable and professionally-looking, but it requires a lot of effort and separate development for each platform (iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Symbian, ...), and. it requires your users to specifically download your app.
If you choose to convert the existing HTML to a mobile-friendly site, it will be (mostly) cross-platform, and you can follow the guidelines here.
This is very interesting question especially these days when mobile visibility has never been more important.
For more complex website I would use some online mobile site converter service, such as duda mobile or bmobilized.
These services will give you just mobile - 'm' version of a website, but with long bad urls, and unless you pay for responsive package, the site won't work on tablets.
Maybe the best solution is to use joomla or word press and pick some responsive template and build the website from scratch. Building one responsive site is better solution than having multiple instances for each device...
examples:
a) duda service
If you wander what duda can do for you, just as an example, check this site crazyscarygames.com and check out his 'm' counterpart "m.crazyscarygames" for mobile devices. this is just an example.
b) script
If you would go for full responsive site, this is an example of purity III template on this website monkeygamesworld.com ... m.monkeygamesworld.com
And remember, always do all redirects from htaccess.
There's a google tool that you can use in the end to verify how your site works on android
google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly
just enter url and hit 'analyze'
also make sure that your robots.txt is setup well, in order to allow google bot do its scan properly throughout necessary directory structure in order to access all resources.
ok, hope that helps
I'm currently developing a web app for my company. In this application, there's a form with input fields containing informations about contacts. I would like to create a button which allows to create a contact in the address book on a click.
Is there anyway to access the address book with JavaScript or other web language ?
For example, on windows and IE we can create an ActiveX object in JavaScript to create contacts in Outlook...
Thanks.
If this turns out to be possible, I'm eating my Mighty Mouse ..
I apologize for the slightly unrelated answer
P.S: to make this answer slightly more related; you could accomplish this by creating a hybrid between a native application and a web app, where the native app will pop-up the address book and then return its data to the web app.
If you create a link that generates a file in the vCard format, the iPhone version of Safari might recognize it as a contact and automatically launch the address book app when they click on the link.
It appears that this would NOT work as of iPhone 2.1 (no vCard support in safari), but it might work in 3.0 - I have seen that people will be able to send vCards via MMS on the iPhone, so maybe they'll work in safari too? I guess you'd just have to try it to find out.