Evening community.
I'm in the process of developing a windows based application which heavily revolves around mobiles being connected to a machine via USB, Currently. The communication between android using googles ADB drivers works without a problem (currently, that is). The problem is getting said application to integrate well with IOS users.
What the application does I'm bascially reinventing the wheel of stock control for a client, who wants a completely customized application based around their current mobile barcode scanner which scans and saves the scanned items to a file name created with the date & Time in a text format. This application is both on IOS and Android devices.
What i'm looking to do, is have their current machine automatically map the connected device to a drive letter to allow easier browsing of the device through the application & Pull the necessary file and save locally to then make other changes as needed..
So, the overall question. Is, that without having a jailbroken/rooted mobile device to allow Mass Storage, is it possible to have a Windows XP based machine to automatically map connected IOS and Android devices to a drive letter? There will be only one device connected at one time
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Is it possible with the Mobile SDK to write an application that receives way points from a web service and then starts the drone and monitors its operation?
The use case is as follows:
- Start drone
- Fly to a height of 2m
- Take picture/video and send/stream picture/video to the app
- Land again
Is it possible to simulate my code in the DJI Simulator and then when I know everything works use a Spark or Mavic for a real-life demonstration?
Yes absolutely, although it's not necessarily MobileSDK specific and here's a example:
1/ You create a desktop (native or web) app that does the mission planning. This app can save the mission in a known format - My advice is to create a framework/library to manage this format -
2/ A mobile app built on top of the MobileSDK reads the mission in the format - using the said framework that manages this format.
3/ The mobile app translates the mission requirements into missions system available on MobileSDK either through WaypointMissions, MissionControl or even VirtualStick commands.
As for simulation, once the drone is in simulator mode, the execution will work and show how it executes.
If you want to take things further, you can even stream back from the mobile app data to your destkop app to superpose actual path against planned path.
I can't drop a code source for this as it's extensive, but hopefully this helps.
I have a question to you and I really hope you can provide me some information.
I wish to build a media center because I have not found any possibilities to cast my stuff straight to the big screen from my Windows mobile phone.
Off course there is the wireless display adapter from Microsoft but I wish not to cast my whole display to my tv.
After testing a few product (Amazon fire tv box, apple tv 3, display dock and the wireless dock) I came to the conclusion that I can not have an all in one solution which fits my perceptions.
From that point I thought that I have to build my own "tv application".
Ok ok... There is kodi(xbmc) and so on... But I think this is just making a detour.
Following features must be included:
running on Windows 10
Cast music, videos and pictures.
Ability to launch and download windows store apps.
Project Rome implementation to share data across devices.
Seems possible but here´s one big problem...
If we are talking about mediaboxes, we do talk about those small boxes besides your tv. Instead off building a micro ATX setup, I want to take this to the next level... using IoT (Raspberry Pi 3).
Using IoT may have some advantages but there are a few disadvantages I have to worry about.
Will Windows 10 work properly on IoT (advantages - disadvantages)
Media streaming?
ARM architecture
Bluetooth, WIFI, Ethernet connectivity
I have never ever worked on IoT before, so I am kinda noob again. I´am asking for some advices to make this possible.
[UWP] How can I stream data (e.g. video, music, images) to another application?
[UWP] Implement a remote control - just like the amazon fire tv controler ?
Advantages - Disadvantages of using Windows 10 on a Raspberry Pi ?
Using windows 10 default applications (Groove Music, Images, Videos - Application) to play incomming data?
What do you think? Is it possible to create a Mediacenter which is running on a raspberry pi using windows 10?
Thank you in advance.
The most straightforward idea would be to create an always-running app with a MediaPlayerElement with a Source property that can be set programmatically by a remote control app. A remote control app could also control the pause, play, next, previous actions.
Be aware that there is no hardware video acceleration support for Raspberry Pi on Windows IoT Core yet, and probably that also won't come soon. There are other devices that do have proper video drivers (look at the hardware support page of Windows IoT Core).
Also be aware that there is no Windows Store on Windows IoT Core, unless you are an OEM (then you can publish your properly signed apps in an official way to devices that are managed by you).
A simpler way would be to buy a Windows 10 box from aliexpress. Then you can use Miracast to stream your screen, install apps from the App Store and play films directly on it, for example using Kodi for which remote control apps exist.
I'm developing an app on windows phone that simply can't work without at least two phones (Two phones need to see each other through wireless network and act together. And I use an API that is not properly implemented on emulator).
Unplug the first one and plug in another repeatedly as I'm modifying the code and watching changes on the phones is painful.
Is it possible that I connect two windows phones, and make them work, at the same time?
Unfortunately it's not possible to connect multiple phones to the same PC at once. The connection used by Zune (or WPConnect) only works with one device at a time.
I've been in a similar situation to you (debugging software on multiple phones at the same time--as they talk to each other) but there's no way round this.
is there a assembly or API to get isolated storage in windows phone using WPF or win form while connecting the windows phone device via USB?
please note the devise will be running offline so cannot use web service or WCF
thanks
Check out this article on emulator automation. It includes details of adding and removing files from isolated storage and should also work on an actual device as well as the emulator.
This isn't really a supported activity. I too have been thinking about what to do when you want a desktop version with extended features and you want the two to share data.
I think the key here is to think about how Microsoft achieves this with email and calendaring. There's no shared filesystem, rather Outlook on the desktop and Outlook on the phone both function as clients for the same Exchange server.
At one point I considered running a webservice in a desktop app so that the phone app could push data to the desktop app, but that would be a very manual process. The common-server model will provide a much better UX.
It's not an exact match to your situation, but a good tool is the Windows Phone 7 IsolatedStorage Explorer.
The reason I say it may not be the best match is this note from the documentation:
The WP7 Isolated Storage Explorer
supports connections from the emulator
or actual devices. For applications
running on devices a data connection
must be enabled (WiFi or the mobile
data connection).
It's at least a great start and keeps you from having to do the heavy lifting. Is there any reason you have to be offline and check the contents of IsolatedStorage? If you elaborate on why you have that requirement, we might be able to offer some work arounds.
We develop a custom Windows CE-based device. To connect this to the PC via ActiveSync / Mobile Device Center, we have to set up entries so that the WCE USB Serial Host (wceusbsh.sys) recognises our Vendor ID (Vid) and Product ID (Pid).
To do this, to date, we have distributed a modified version of wceusbsh.inf and wceusbsh.sys: when the user first connects the device then ActiveSync basically says it does not recognise the device, and the user is asked to identify a driver for it. If they now point at the location where they've stored our wceusbsh.* files then all is well. However this is pretty clunky.
What we really want is a slick way to do this, preferably by running an installer which just gets everything ready, so that as soon as the device is plugged in it is recognised by wceusbsh.sys.
Any clues how to do this? There seem to be a ton of registry entries which relate to WCEUSBSH, and it's not clear how these are set: just "installing" the .INF file doesn't seem to allow for setting them all, so it does look like ActiveSync reads the .INF file and then adds some more information before appending the new info to the Registry.
Thanks
Well, in case anyone else comes looking for an answer to this, we managed to do it via this link from MSDN WinUSB (Windows Driver Kit). We now have a driver install program which sets up USB / Mobile Device Center so that when you plug in the CE device it is recognised correctly.