Today I finished an update for one of my apps with adding a CustomControl as SplashScreen. I had to do it this way because my app is localized in English, German and Italian. Most annoying at this ...
Today I want to show you two small tools that will help you to make localizing your apps easier. Localizing in-app strings The first tool I want you to know about is a tool called “AppTranslator”...
As I announced already yesterday, this post is all about must have photo apps for Windows Phone. The selection and this post is reflecting my own opinion about the apps. If you are using other apps...
It has been very long that I blog from mobile now. But in the last hours there is something going on that really gets me annoyed. Due to a similar naming with the big German concern “Metro AG”, M...
Windows Phone 8 Developer Summit is finally over and has many early adopters who recently purchased a second generation device left unsatisfied, to say the least. As an early adopter myself who bou...
In January 2011 Internet Security specialist AVG released a study. This study tells us that nowadays children get in touch with technical gadgets much earlier than in the past, while they are not a...
Today I had to solve the problem that I needed to add multiline text into my resource file. I did not find a Windows Phone specific solution, but enough hints to solve the problem. Here is a short...
Every App has always a title on its dedicated tile for the Windows Phone start screen. But what if your tile icon contains already the title of your app? Normally, you are setting the appearance o...
Both Nokia and HTC are providing a Panorama picture function with their Windows Phone devices. Nokia released its “creativity suite”, while HTC integrated this feature in the camera app. Both devi...
Windows Phone has a problem, at least in the eyes of Eric Zemam of informationweek.com. According to a recent article, Google is ignoring the Windows Phone OS. Google’s lack of support for the ...