Now that Windows 10 has been released, Microsoft has updated their Windows Store (at least for people in the US -- international pages seem to still be in progress). Prior to this update, I used the API available at https://services.apps.microsoft.com/browse/6.2.9200-1/615/en-US_en-US/c/US/cp/10005001/Apps/[APPID] to grab info on apps. This API still works, except with two issues:
a) It works only with the "old" app ids -- there seem to be new app ids for apps in Windows Store
b) Many apps in Windows Store now don't show a price (e.g. they show N/A) when accessed via the web or API but do show a price when opened in Windows Store
Is there a new API that works with the newly updated Windows Store?
Thanks!
This guy has built an API, which, although I haven't tested it, should work on the new store:
http://blog.lionelchetty.co.za/an-api-for-you-wpdevs/
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I'm developing a Windows Universal App, I need to share a database for all the users' account existing on pc.
Is it possible? What's the best solution?
Thanks
In Universal Apps the app data is stored in an app data store. When an app is installed, the system gives it its own per-user data stores for settings and files. So what you are asking is not possible using the native app data APIs.
Also note:
The system preserves the contents of these data stores when the user
installs an update to your app and removes the contents of these data
stores completely and cleanly when your app is uninstalled.
Source: Store and retrieve settings and other app data
I am publishing one windows phone app in store.Now I want to know How many users download my app.that means count of the downloads.I am searching windows dashboard on my account but not getting any count details. please help me.I want to know about the number of users download my app.Thank you in advance
You can get more user statistics when using Google Analytics, like crashes and exceptions, events (click on a button etc.), device models, number of users currently using your app in real-time, and of course the number of installations and active users.
I use this SDK in my projects. Simply include the SDK via Nuget to your project by searching googleAnalyticsSdk, and follow the steps in the documentation.
The Windows Store dashboard has the basic things like number of downloads, demographics, etceteras. You can also download that information. Go to http://dev.windows.com, click Dashboard and login with you Microsoft account.
To have more details on the usage specific to your app you could use googleAnalytics, but when you start a Universal Windows app (Win10) you also get ApplicationInsight added to your project. This will give you a very detailed insight in your app on Azure. For more information see http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2014/03/20/instrumenting-your-app-for-telemetry-and-analytics/
Martin
I recently submitted my app to the windows store, I was able to get it in the windows store application installed on my PC, but can't find online
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/apps
Please, am I missing something?, or there's something I have do?
You can try open the Windows dev center dashboard via this link: https://dev.windows.com/en-us/overview
Of course, you have to make sure that you've logged in using your Microsoft account, the one you're using while uploading your apps.
When you receive your app submission report, you still need to wait a few days (around 3-7days) for your app to be searchable on the Store because the store server needs time to index your app for searching. If you wait a few days you'll be able to search for your app.
Source : MSDN
I need to write an application that can detect if the "Bing - Get me there" application is installed on the current phone and if so, launch it.
Is this possible? The app would need to do this for other external applications as well, so a generic method or interface for this would be helpful.
Applications run in a sandbox on Windows Phone and there is no way to tell if other applications are installed unless you are writing both of them and you use a method to announce to other applications that you are installed and they know how to read that announcement.
2 approaches to such announcements would be:
Have both (all) apps synchronise with a web server and report which devices they have been installed on. The apps can the query which other apps have been installed on that device.
Have all apps write a file to a location where all apps can access. The only place to do this is the PicturesLibrary so you have to embed the identifier in the name of the image or in its contents and be able to query all images to identify the other installed apps. The user could manually delete any images you create in this way though.
Beware, neither method can tell if the other app has subsequently been uninstalled though so this is far from foolproof.
As far as I know, there's no way to do that.
Applications on Windows Phone run in complete isolation, and can not act with other applications, other than some highly specialized apps (i.e. for playing media).
My Windows Phone app doesn't have a service hosted but I would like to give the user an option to download/backup all the information(Just say note taking app) to another device or PC. How can we do that? Email attachment is an option but is there any other way?
Realistically you need to be looking at creating your own service/server for this if you want to do it now. DropBox (or similar) may be an option but it requires the users to already have an account.
Or wait until the Live SDK is available for the phone. (Or apply for the beta)