I got some emails lately that there is a problem with my app „LockScreen Calendar„. This app show the next appointments on your phones lockscreen, allows you to get a new background image every day from bing or use one…
Week View startup time when no network connection exists
Recently I got some emails, telling me that my app Week View sometimes starts slowly but the behavior was not predictable. Most times the start takes 2 seconds but sometimes the start takes nearly 8 seconds. I tested this on…
Charging but still working…
Look, what i found yesterday, when the company i am working for decided to throw away some old hardware 🙂 The phone on the right is my „old“ Samsung Omnia 7, running my fun app Nokia 3310. I will insert…
Does a ‚graphical week representation‘ make sense?
Sometimes i get emails with the suggestion: „Please add a graphical representation of the current week to ‚Week View‚, like the one that MS Outlook has“. While i agree that a graphical week view like outlook makes sense on a…
Will the next windows phone OS update provide an API to edit/delete appointments?
The programming interface for windows phone 8.0 does not allow to edit or delete existing appointments. This is the reason why Week View uses a workaround to do this for appointments in windows live calendar. It uses direct access to a…
Week View 8.6 puplished to marketplace
The certification process was successful and I published the Week View 8 update some minutes ago. This is, how it looks like in the windows phone developer center: And after you click „Publish“. 🙂 As you can see there…
Week View 8.6 update submitted to certification
Finally it’s done – i sent the next update of Week View to the marketplace certification. 🙂 This update contains some bug fixes (in search- and details view) and also many new features, that were suggested by users of Week View…
Windows phone live tile issues
In my opinion the windows phone platform is great in kind of development tools and also user experience. When working extensively with an platform you also learn about it’s bugs and limitations. One of this limitations has to do with…
Week View 8.6 final Beta version submitted
I submitted the (planned) last beta version for Week View 8.6 some minutes ago. Now i will wait for feedback from „my beta testers“ 😉 and send the version to the marketplace certification of no more problems are reported to…
The next week view update is on it’s way
At the moment i am working on the next update for Week View, BETA 1 was already sent out to the people helping me with beta testing and with creating the localizations. Thanks for your help with testing and for…