Any idea why I can't disable the "Windows 10 Mobile" checkbox? I want to make my app available only for Windows 10 Desktop.
It seems like this submission you are viewing is already submitted. You will have to update the existing submission to be able to change its properties. You could do that for example in the Dashboard in the App overview section:
Then in the Packages section you could change the platforms:
Edit the app's manifest xml. So the app is only available on the desktop and resubmit it. There is no way to check or uncheck the platform check boxes
<Dependencies>
<TargetDeviceFamily Name="Windows.Desktop" MinVersion="10.0.x.0" MaxVersionTested="10.0.y.0"/>
</Dependencies>
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn986903.aspx
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I want to my Windows UWP app to target only specific devices e.g. desktop and mobile. How do I specify that my app should only target these devices? I have found nothing of interest in the Package.appxmanifest file, and project.json only specifies what SDK's the app should use.
There are two ways you can do it.
1 . Right click Package.appxmanifest, and click View code, you can find the following code in the Package.appxmanifest.
<Dependencies>
<TargetDeviceFamily Name="Windows.Universal" MinVersion="10.0.0.0" MaxVersionTested="10.0.0.0" />
</Dependencies>
You can modify the Name property to "Windows.Desktop" or "Windows.Mobile" to target a specific device type.
2 .When you submit you app in Windows Dev Center, you can specific you app are able to run which type of device.
In Pricing and availability step, you can do it as follow:
I think you'd better choose the second way.
Basically when i do open in functionality in other apps basically it
will show tow options 1. open-in 2. extensions. But i am seeing some
of the apps not showing the other apps action extension feature. I do
not know how they are hiding it?. Or they doing something else to do
not show the other apps extensions other than iOS defaults action
extensions?.
Example:
YES: Mailbox, Dropbox, Box etc. - these app was able to show the other
apps action extension
NO: Evernote, Acompli, Zoho Docs - - these app does not shows the
other apps action extension.
Any idea? why evernote and Zoho not showing the other apps action extension feature?. Is there something they need to do on their side or i need to do on my side to make it show?.
Any help that might be really appreciated.
screenshots attached.
Action and Share extensions have an activation rule, which is stored as NSExtensionActivationRule in their Info.plist. These extensions only appear if the host app is sharing data that matches the activation rule. For example, if an app shares images and the extension can only handle text, the extension will not be displayed as an option in that app.
I have a bunch of iPads that are all supervised, and that are enrolled into a MDM server (Mavericks Server). I've added the app to the specific device group, but when I go to the profile settings and Single App Mode the only apps I can select are the builtin ones.
Is there no way to use a third party (enterprise) app as the app for Single App Mode?
EDIT: If you use Apple Configurator and add the app there you can set Single App Mode to use that app, I would imagine that would be possible when doing the same in Apple's Profile Manager, but it doesn't seem to be working here.
EDIT2: Looking at Apple's documentation it does indeed seem to be possible to select a third party app for single app mode using their Profile Manager, so why isn't the app showing in the list for me?
http://images.apple.com/education/docs/assessment_with_ipad_mar2013_v2.pdf
Go to the Device Group, after installing the app (that you want to show in Single App Mode dropdown and lock it to) do "Update Info" (small icon in bottom-middle-left of screen) on all the devices in that group. Wait a bit, then go to Single App Mode screen again, the app should start appearing.Works for me. The "Update Info" thing also works for Single Device as well and you can lock to any new app installed from Profile Manger, doesn't matter if the app was installed while supervising through Configurator or not.
So interestingly enough in the new update for Server (3.1.1) this seems to be working. The Enterprise app is now listed in the dropdown box.
However there also is about 10 empty items in the box with no text description. So it's clearly still a bit buggy.
Do you know if the Windows Phone SDK offers an API that allows to add a custom App entry inside the Application Settings page?
I would like to create a new entry "AppXYZ" that links the settings page of the application.
Is this view reserved just for "system" applications or could also be used to add a link to an external app's settings?
Although not well-known, there is a way to do that. In WMAppManifest.xml you can specify that your app belongs in HubType="268435456". That way, it will be integrated there. This is not an officially-supported approach and I am yet to see a third-party app approved in the Store that would handle this.
You can link to the settings page of your own application but not to the windows phone settings page you show us in the screenshot. Developers are only allowed to show some of these by using the corresponding URL schmemes.
Unfortuantely there is no possibility to integrate your app to the official settings hub as a third party developer. Adding HubType="268435456" in your WMAppManifest.xml file will prevent a successful sumbission.
Sorry for the bad news...
I've noticed that in the Phone 7 Beta emulator there is a settings application. It contains an "applications" panel. This seems to imply that we should be writing settings plugins so that settings for all apps are managed centrally, similarly to how the iPhone settings work.
Does anyone know how we write/register these plugins? Or if I'm on completely the wrong track?
Thanks!
All settings and configuration for any application you create should be managed from within that application.
This is different from the iPhone where settings and configuration are considered separate and should be managed in separate places.
The Settings "application" on the device/emulator contains system settings and what it calls "application" settings. What are termed applicatoin settings actually relate to hub settings (plus IE & Search).
From the UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone 7 version 2.0 (page 66 - System and system application settings)
"Application settings must be
implemented within the application
itself."
MSDN: How to: Create a Settings Page for Windows Phone
Edit:I just tried the SettingsSample and that doesn't appear in the OS settings page but I think that is the plan in the final SDK this functionality should be available.