This is the third and last post of this series. In the first two posts I showed you how to start the preview of MediaCapture and some modifications we can apply to it. In this post, we are finally ...
Like promised in my first post about photo capturing, I will provide some common modification scenarios when using the MediaCapture API. This is what this post is about. Choosing a camera If you ...
With the recent release of the public beta of RandR, I also learned a lot about taking photos from within an Windows Phone 8.1 app. There are several differences to Windows Phone 8, so I decided to...
Recently, I experimented a bit because I wanted a round button that contains an image that can be used everywhere where I can add a standard button (and not just in the AppBar). I managed to get a ...
Some of you might have noticed that UniShare has its own folder in your devices picture library. Also some other apps like WhatsApp or Tweetium have it. The advantages of your app’s own folder are ...
It was only yesterday when I decided to shorten shared links in UniShare. The reason is not Twitter as suggested by some of my users, but other networks like LinkedIn, that have text length limits ...
Like a lot of other apps, also UniShare got hit by an outage in the licensing system of the Windows Phone Store recently. There was a workaround to get the licenses back from the store, but even w...
After finally being able to use my dev center account again after three long weeks, I am back into UniShare development. One of the most requested fixes was to not exit the app when users are not a...
Recently, I started to create a real world app to demonstrate the usage of my WordPressUniversal library. While I was working on it, I also decided to extend the Splahscreen which is mandatory for ...
As I have already developed a news reader app for my blog, I got asked quite a few times if I want to share my code to help others creating their apps. As I need to redesign my blog reader to match...