I'm trying to send an email from a Metro application (js or c#, doesn't matter) Is Share Contract the way to go? As far as I can tell you can't specify the email's recipient through the Share contract.
This is correct. The share contract is also available for other apps, i.e. Tweetro, which do not use an email address, therefore the user must type in an email address per hand. A mailto Uri does not work, it must be a valid Uri, otherwise it will not be displayed. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windows/apps/hh465261 for all options you can set up for sharing via charms.
You are correct. There is no way. You could try constructing a mailto Uri and launching it
Use the EmailManager.ShowComposeNewEmailAsync API if you're on Windows 10. It uses the mailto: protocol underneath.
You can use a Uri scheme to open an app, but you need to use LaunchUriAsync. Also, with LauncherOptions set, if the user doesn't have the app installed Windows will bring them to the Store.
For example, here is my approach that only opens the mail app to side of the screen (I use it for error reporting), or if they have Outlook installed it will use it instead:
private async Task<bool> ReportErrorMessage(string detailedErrorMessage)
{
var uri = new Uri(string.Format("mailto:email.address#domain.com?subject=Error Report&body={0}", detailedErrorMessage), UriKind.Absolute);
var options = new Windows.System.LauncherOptions
{
DisplayApplicationPicker = true,
DesiredRemainingView = Windows.UI.ViewManagement.ViewSizePreference.UseLess,
PreferredApplicationPackageFamilyName = "microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe",
PreferredApplicationDisplayName = "Mail"
};
return await Windows.System.Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(uri, options);
}
In the case of an email uri, the app is installed already, so it should work equally for every user. Additionally, if you know the FamilyPackageName you can set the preferred app to use.
Find more information about using the uri launcher here.
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I am trying to set the AppClip invocation for my App which is already released on app store.
I need an url such that it provides me a jobId e.g.: https://example.com/task?jobId=00001.
My use case is that I send the sms with the url https://example.com/task?jobId=00001 to the user, the user clicks on the url and the app gets started. Then for the other user I send the next url with corresponding jobId.
I did setup the AASA file for my domain (contains the JSON with "applinks" and "appclip" objects) which is valid, also the Domain status is valid on App Store Connect. There is a default experience set with title, subtitle, image and action. I also configured an advance experience for the url https://example.com/task.
However, my app clip doesn't get invoked if I access the url from either sms text or safari. :(
I do not have a web page for https://example.com/task therefore I haven't set up the meta data for this.
Is it possible to invoke the AppClip this way? It is really important for me that the URL is dynamic and I pass that jobId every time for each individual booking.
There s no much documentation and I already read at least twice Apple documentation about AppClip.
Because of this:
I do not have a web page for https://example.com/task therefore I haven't set up the meta data for this.
The answer to this:
Is it possible to invoke the AppClip this way?
Is no. Sorry, you need to own the domain you're working with, or at the very least have means to access its CNAME config (thus, be able to induce the owner of that domain to change the CNAME configs to what you want it to be, similar to what branch.io and AppsFlyer does with its users/clients).
I've been following the guidance on google to create a PWA, but I am interested if there are any conventions to communicate with your data server that you are being called by a PWA. Is the easiest thing to add a parameter to the request i.e.
var dataUrl = 'https://query.myapi.com/v1/get?source=pwa';
and then check the source parameter? Or should I add to the request header?
In your code
if (window.matchMedia('(display-mode: standalone)').matches) {
// do things here
// set a variable to be used when calling something
// e.g. call Google Analytics to track standalone use
}
** Assumption made that you are also setting up your app to be added to the users home screen as a shortcut
You have to pass in the traffic source to Google Analytics indicating its from PWA. Refer this answer on more details.
I know this question was asked time and again, here and here. The answers given are pretty much the same, but in my case I still miss something and I cannot figure out exactly what it is. I have a RESTful Web API deployed and that is configured to accept only domain-authenticated calls. So on my client side, in my UWP application, I used the HttpClient class from the Windows.Web.Http namespace. The resources found online all show that I need to do two things:
Enable Enterprise Authentication in the package manifest of my UWP app. I did that. Here is a screen shot of the capabilities selected for my app:
Set the "AllowUI" flag to be false, so that the user is not prompted to enter its credentials. I did that too. Here is a code snippet of what I am doing:
Uri uri = new Uri(_myUriRoute);
var filter = new HttpBaseProtocolFilter { AllowUI = false };
var httpClient = new HttpClient(filter);
HttpResponseMessage response = await httpClient.GetAsync(uri);
With this code in place, I don't get prompted for the credentials, but the response.IsSuccessStatusCode flag comes back as false and the error that I get is 401 - Unauthorized.
Before you ask, yes, the server-side endpoint is properly configured and works fine. If I try this:
Uri uri = new Uri(_myUriRoute);
var filter = new HttpBaseProtocolFilter();
var httpClient = new HttpClient(filter);
HttpResponseMessage response = await httpClient.GetAsync(uri);
I am asked for my credentials and when I enter them correctly, I get a proper HTTP 200 code in response. I also tried this:
Uri uri = new Uri(_myUriRoute);
var filter = new HttpBaseProtocolFilter
{
AllowUI = false,
ServerCredential = new PasswordCredential(_myUriRoute, _myUserName, _myPassword)
};
var httpClient = new HttpClient(filter);
HttpResponseMessage response = await httpClient.GetAsync(uri);
and again, I get a nice HTTP 200.
So what am I missing? I don't want to be prompted and I don't want to store credentials either. I want to have Windows pass automatically the credentials of the current user of the app.
Two things worth mentioning. The above-described behavior happens in my development environment (Visual Studio 2017) while I try debugging/running my app using the "Local Machine" option. Also, the first thing that happens when I start the app is I am prompted to grant permissions to the app to access the pictures folder and account info:
This happens despite the fact that I have selected "User Account Information" among the Capabilities set for the application, as can be seen in the above screen shot of the Capabilities tab, in the application's package manifest.
Any idea of what is missing? Any idea of what else should be tried?
Any suggestion will be highly appreciated.
Cheers,
Eddie
PS: I posted the same question on the MSDN Forums as well
PS2: The Web API is running in IIS Express, started from Visual Studio 2017, in a different instance. I configured IIS Express to expose my Web API using the IP address of my development machine instead of the "localhost". In its web.config file, I have the following setting:
<system.web>
<authentication mode="Windows"/>
</system.web>
I post this, just in case the issue is on the Server side, which I think it isn't.
I'm developing my first Metro app using XAML. The app is for our company intranet use only. I have these questions -
Is it possible to retrieve the account name (domain\username) of the current logged in user? Do I need to use a WinRT component for this? I looked up Windows.Security.Authentication namespace and only Web and OnlineId are available.
I'm using the WebView control to navigate to a secure URL. If I open this URL in a browser, I do not get any prompts (since my machine is joined to the domain), but if I open the URL in a WebView, I get the username & password prompt. Is there a way to get rid of it?
Update - I was able to solve #2 question by enabling Enterprise Authentication in the Capabilities tab of the Package.appxmanifest file.
For No. 1:
Please use Windows.System.UserProfile.UserInformation class to get all relevant information
GetDisplayNameAsync()
GetDomainNameAsync()
GetPrincipleNameAsync()
e.g. to get the display name
if (UserInformation.NameAccessAllowed)
{
string player = await UserInformation.GetDisplayNameAsync();
}
I'm creating a webapp with this combination of tools. I'm authenticating with App Engine in the following manner:
class googleLogin(webapp.RequestHandler):
def get(self):
callbackURL = 'http://%s/googleLoginCallback' % getHost()
#Create a client service
gdClient = gdata.docs.service.DocsService()
gdata.alt.appengine.run_on_appengine(gdClient)
gdClient.SetOAuthInputParameters(gdata.auth.OAuthSignatureMethod.HMAC_SHA1,
_GoogleConsumerKey,
consumer_secret=_GoogleConsumerSecret)
#Get a Request Token
requestToken = gdClient.FetchOAuthRequestToken(scopes=_GoogleDataScope,
extra_parameters={'xoauth_displayname': APP_NAME})
#Persist token secret
self.session = Session()
self.session[TOKENSECRETKEY] = requestToken.secret
gdClient.auto_set_current_token = True
gdClient.SetOAuthToken(requestToken)
authUrl = gdClient.GenerateOAuthAuthorizationURL(callback_url=callbackURL)
self.redirect(authUrl)
I authenticated my domain with Google at https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageDomain, entering a target URL and am using the given Consumer Key/Secret. For instance, if my domain was 'juno.appspot.com', I am using http://juno.appspot.com as the target url path prefix.
The process is working; however, Google presents this message to the user in a yellow security box:
"The application that directed you
here claims to be 'xxxxxx'. We are
unable to verify this claim as the
application runs on your computer, as
opposed to a website. We recommend
that you deny access unless you trust
the application."
I don't think I should be getting this error, since my server is getting the request token and creating the authorization URL. Does anyone have any insight on how to get rid of this warning?
Google's domain registration has an option to upload a certificate, but I shouldn't need to do that because I'm using OAuth with the HMAC_SHA1 signature method.
Also, not that it should matter, but I'm doing all this through a UIWebView on the iPhone. I'm specifically trying to do all authentication server-side to avoid exposing my Consumer Key/Secret.
Thank you for any tips :)
Solved.
The culprit is this line from above:
extra_parameters={'xoauth_displayname': APP_NAME})
Setting this value for a registered application intentionally triggers a warning to users, as indicated by the Google documentation:
xoauth_displayname:
(optional) String identifying the
application. This string is displayed
to end users on Google's authorization
confirmation page. For registered
applications, the value of this
parameter overrides the name set
during registration and also triggers
a message to the user that the
identity can't be verified. For
unregistered applications, this
parameter enables them to specify an
application name, In the case of
unregistered applications, if this
parameter is not set, Google
identifies the application using the
URL value of oauth_callback; if
neither parameter is set, Google uses
the string "anonymous".
Removing this line no longer allows me to use a 'nice' name in place of the domain, but it gets rid of that annoying yellow box :)
I'm not sure exactly where the issue may be in your code, but I've got a one page oauth/appengine/gdata example which may at least set you in the right direction. Have you tried to navigate to the site directly from the iPhone/desktop browser to see what message is delivered?
Hope it helps.
Alternatively, is it possibly to do with the user agent the UIWebView sets?