It was a journey with a lot ups and downs, but I hit the next Milestone as a Windows Phone Developer: 50,000 downloads across all my apps! You might wonder why I am so happy about that. That’s ver...
Today I started to update my very first app I ever wrote to Windows Phone 8. The app has a read aloud feature that uses the Bing translation service (as TTS was not available on Windows Phone 7). ...
While working on my current project, I needed a solution for a running code with a time offset. Well, you might say, no problem after all, and it is true. The challenge at this point was to find a...
I love it when I am discovering new awesome stuff to provide a unique User Experience in my apps. AppAdditives by ExGrip LLC are the newest tools I felt in love with. AppAdditives allow you to cre...
It is done. I made my first library for Windows Phone 8. This blog post is about why I did it and how to use it. Update: I changed some method names of the library to make it easier to use the lib...
In my recent project, I work with a lot of text that get’s its value from user input. To enable the best possible experience for my users, I choose the InputScope Text on all TextBoxes, because it ...
If you are coming from C#/Silverlight, Android can be a little diffusing. Android does not have the same structure than a Windows or Windows Phone app. Activities Android has Activities. Activiti...
In one of my recent projects, I was forced to use icons for the ApplicationBarButtons that didn’t fit into the circled template of the standard Windows Phone application bar. The icons have specia...
This time, we will have look on how to integrate tickets from uservoice into your Windows Phone app. Users love to see a history of their tickets they submitted to a customer service. They can rev...
As I described in my first blog post about uservoice, uservoice has a feedback forum where users are able to submit and vote for ideas. This post is about how to get those ideas into your app. On ...