App reviews are your chance to come back at these nerdy developer guys and you should not miss it! Anyone can write boring or even helpful reviews but that’s not the point of this guide. Here I will share my…
New App: ‚Live Tile Calendar 10‘ will be available soon
Update: The app is available in the Windows store: https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9NBLGGH6H92N The built in calendar in windows phone 10 is still far from perfect but in my opinion much better than the windows phone 8.x calendar. But: The live tile even on…
OneDrive storage limitations – please vote against it!
What a bad idea from MS: http://microsoft-news.com/microsoft-removes-unlimited-onedrive-storage-plan-decreases-free-storage-limit/ I can only ask you to vote to not reduce the free OneDrive storage: http://onedrive.uservoice.com/forums/262982-onedrive/suggestions/10524099-give-us-back-our-storage I really hope, MS will think this over. Other companies (like Google) offer 15 GB of storage for…
Daily activities is a UWP app now
As written, I was working to port my app „Daily Activities“ to a universal windows platform app. Meanwhile this is done, and the app runs on your WP 8.1, the WP 10 developer preview and also on the PC/tablet on…
Porting Daily Activites to the UWP
I want to get some experience in creating UWP apps and see how difficult in practice it really is to port an existing app. My app ‚Daily Activities‘ is based on WinRT for windows phone. Initially I was planning to…
Daily Activities can save/export your activity data now
Daily Activities already automatically stores sensor data (steps, activities, visited places) locally in the app on your phone. You can review this data in the settings page. In contrast your phone only stores sensor data for 1 week. So if you are…
Update for ‚Daily Activities‘ will be available soon
Today I submitted an update for my app „Daily Activities„. Windows Phones with a motion sensor can collect your movement data (if you allow to do so) and you can see the your walking steps and visited places. But this…
Windows 10 Development starts
The final version of the windows 10 SDK is available so I am able to port my apps to windows 10, nice 🙂 Currently I am working to bring my apps „Daily Activities“ and „Week View“ to windows 10, other apps…
Windows Store is broken at the moment
The title may sound dramatic but that’s what happened, maybe with the last „unification“ of the windows phone store and the windows store, maybe when preparing the store for windows 10. 1. Submitting updates for existings apps is not possible Today…
Windows 10 RC (Build 10240) and windows phone development fail
Update: A microsoft employee provided a registry fix, which solved the problem: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/74fafd96-50cf-4d77-9d7a-41620c5487a5/ipoverusbsvc-service-missing-in-windows-10-rc-build-10240?forum=winforms Yesterday I updated my notebook to the most recent build (10240) of windows 10, which is some kind of a „release candidate“ build. When I tried to deploy an…