Editorial: We are all humans (why racism sucks)
Last night, the news were full of the decision of the grand jury in Ferguson (USA) (because of a young black man that got killed by a white police officer) and the following riots. A lot of discuss...
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How to capture a photo in your Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime app – Part III: capturing and saving the photo
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 ...
How to capture a photo in your Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime app-Part II: some common modifications
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 ...
How to capture a photo in your Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime app–Part I: the preview of the photo to capture
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...
How to generate a round image button for your Windows Phone 8.1 app (to use everywhere)
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 ...
How to create a folder in Windows Phone 8.1 Pictures Library (and save/read files into/from it)
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 ...
How to shorten an url with Bitly asynchronously on Windows Phone
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 ...
Helper class to handle In-App-Products (IAP) licenses on Windows Phone (SL)
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...
Prevent accidentally exit of your Windows Phone SL app (with Telerik RadMessageBox or Toolkit CustomMessageBox)
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...
How to create an Extended Splashscreen for Universal Apps
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 ...