How does one play GIFs on Windows Phone 8.1? I tried setting the Source property of an Image element to a GIF file, but it only loads the first frame. MediaElement did not seem to work either. I had the same result in a Store app as well as a WP Silverlight project. Does WP 8.1 natively support GIFs? If not, are there any third-party libraries out there that do the work?
P.S. Ideally, I'd like to not have to use the WebView control to load GIFs.
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I'm trying to design a Windows 10 Universal application which can download pdfs from online and open them natively in the application while retaining the functionality to fill them out (obviously only for pdfs that normally have such functionality). Is this possible as of now (using either microsoft's own or third party products) ?
Since Windows 8.1 there is a API for rendering PDF documents. You can find a SDK-Sample here - https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/PDF-viewer-sample-85a4bb30/
The problem is: The API render the PDFs to an BitmapImage. You will loose all the functionality to edit forms, it´s viewing only. For Windows 10 there is no aditional way to handle pdfs.
Here is a list of third party controls, who maybe can do the trick.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/paulwhit/archive/2013/02/15/pdf-view-components-for-windows-store-apps-winrt-xaml-c.aspx
This stuff is created for windows 8.1, but should work for windows universal as well.
I am a beginner with Windows Phone. According to my information, Windows Phone 7 does not support .gif images and I want to display animated images like [.gif] image in my Windows Phone application.
So, how can we display animated image in Windows Phone 7?
Please refer my Old Answer which specifies the solution to display the gif kind animation in windows phone 7.
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With the use of ImageTools dll you can implement
this is the link to download this tool
http://imagetools.codeplex.com/
I have a Windows Phone app that targets OS 7.1 and I wish to be available for Windows Phone 8 devices as well. As I understand it I needn't do anything code-wise to make this possible. However, must I add new tile images to get it certified? According to App submission requirements for Windows Phone the XAP must include more images for Windows Phone 8 than for Windows Phone 7 (see Default Tile images under section 4.7.2), is this the case here or does it only apply to Windows Phone apps targeting OS 8.0 and higher?
I did not get your question what actually you want? but if you want to upload your .xap in app store than you have require
300x300 app icon
1000x800 back ground image
If your application support multiresolution than six WXGV(768x1280) screen shots else you need six single resolution screen shots
If you are talking about application icon than visit bellow link you got every thing
Tile size and resolution
Tile design Guideline
Multi resolution for windows phone
good. to know the requirements of your app or the window phone 8, i can assume you have been using Visual Studio 2010. i have had a similar experiance to one of my apps. i simply opened my project.snl file with visual studio 2012 and at the AppManifest page, i was able to add the stuffs (images for toast, tile and other images required which i provided in various sizes). you'll also have the advantage of adding some more cool features like a better arrangement of your app which you switch the orientation.
your app will still perform good on window phone 7 series too.
i hope this helps.
Your app is already available as is for WP8 devices.
That's not clear what do you mean by images.
If you are talking about screenshots for Marketplace:
If you have a separate XAP you'll have to add screenshots to it.
Nowadays it's enough to add a set of screenshots in WXGA (1280 x 768) resolution.
If you are talking about icons and other images you use inside the app:
you should add images in WXGA (1280 x 768) resolution. They will be resized to all supported screen resolutions.
WP8 app should contain 99 x 99 pixel PNG image as app list image and at least two main tile images: small and middle one. Wide tile is up to you.
To supppoert all tile sizes you will need to include the tile images for that size. If you don't, your app will still work, but the tile for your app couldn't be resized.
I am using this media player so that I can play mp3 audio files on a website and they will work on all browsers and smartphones - http://mediaelementjs.com/
However I have just been told that it is not working on Windows Phone. What's the deal with windows phone and it's built in browser?? It's pretty bad form if this plugin even supports IE6 yet it doesn't work with Windows Phone.
This does supports Windows Phone. Just scroll down on its website and you'll see a support chart.
This plugin uses Flash to polyfill HTML5 video tag. So it supports IE6 but not browsers without both HTML5 and Flash support. Which means it can support WP7.5 (IE9 mobile) but not WP7.0 (IE7 mobile).
1) What I have understood that if you develop a application in metro style, it work in desktop, tablet and also phone?
2) I can understand if I use a standard template like grid template for developing my metro style app, that grid view will be converted to listview because of visual state transitions and will work in Windows phone. but my doubt is if we use a blank app template and develop whatever UI I developed as per client requirement will it be able to render or show up in windows phone?
A WinRT app (I assume that is what you mean by Metro) will run on the desktop/tablet and theoretically a Windows Phone 8 device without code changes. First, note that we are talking about Windows Phone 8 (not the current Windows Phone 7) and that it runs, not that the UI layout will be exactly right.
You can design the app however you like, whether it conforms to the Metro design or some other look altogether. If it is developed on WinRT, it should be code compatible with the phone as well.