How to send a mail from your Windows Phone 8.1 app
The old way Sometimes, we need to pass some values to a newly generated E-Mail. In Windows Phone, we always had the EmailComposeTask for that: EmailComposeTask mailTask = new EmailComposeTask();...
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How to detect all urls in a string to match Twitter’s requirements (Windows 8(.1) and Windows Phone 8(.1))
As you might guess, I am still working on that app I mentioned in my last blog post. As I was diving deeper into the functions I want, I recognized that Twitter does a very well url handling server...
How to use the WebAuthenticationBroker for oAuth in a Windows Phone Runtime WP8.1 app
After playing around with WP8.1 for a few days (like everyone else), I decided to dig a bit into development of WP8.1. As oAuth is the common authentication method nowadays for Apps and Websites, ...
Thanks for 50,000 downloads in the Windows Phone Store
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...
How to use Text to Speech to read text aloud on Windows Phone 8
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). ...
How to create a time based & cancelable BackgroundWorker for Windows Phone (and others)
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...
AppAdditives PromotionalCodes, Telerik trial reminder and how to let users unlock the full app on Windows Phone
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...
[Update 3] UserVoice WP8 library for user features
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...
Detect and remove Emojis from Text on Windows Phone
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 ...
Xamarin: Android Activities, Context, Intents and Views
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...