I uploaded multilingual app to Windows Phone Store, I reserve three names for it (one for each languages).
I localized app content and app name (for localized names I used this tutorial msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/ff967550%28v=vs.105%29.aspx) and it works good.
Now, when I looking for my app in Store, I always find it with one name (name for default language).
In some apps, name displayed in Store is depend to phone language (other for en, other for it, ...), and I need to do this.
I find few manuals like these:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/pl-pl/library/hh454044.aspx
http://www.win8tutorial.net/resources/localization/
but when I set Display Name in manifest file (WMAppManifest.xml) to: ms-resource:AppName, on apps list I always get an app named ms-resource:AppName.
Does anyone tried localized app name in Windows Store, if so please for help.
Thank for all!
Just to clarify this first - the first method (DLL..) you are describing is used for Windows Phone 8.0, the second (ms-resource:AppName..) for 8.1 / WinRT / Windows (Phone) Store apps.
Secondly, I think you are running into this problem with "de" vs "de-de" answered here:
wp8 app store localization for app name
Apparently if you use generic language code (only "de" instead of "de-de") in your manifest file, the localized app names will not show up on the store.
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I have a localized (in English and in French) iPhone app on the App Store and there's something I'm wondering for a while without being able to get a response.
As you can see on the image below (from Xcode), English is set as the Development Language but not as the Base one so I'm wondering what happens for a user in Spain (with a phone in Spanish) or in Germany (in German), etc? What language did he sees on the App Store?
Maybe I'm freaking out for nothing! But English as the Base and not the Development Language would be more logic? Unfortunately, I can't try it myself, making my phone in Spain/Spanish because I still get the French App Store.
Thanks!
The localization setting has nothing to do with the AppStore. It's related to the end user's device (or app-specific) region. You can add your localized files for any localization you need (by selecting the file and adding to the desired localization from the right pannel), but the default localization will always be English.
So don't worry
I'm building an app on ios based on the user's current place and I'm using Google Places SDK for ios to find the current place of the user.
The problem is that I would like to get the adress in English and the SDK is providing it to me in the system language.
Is there a way to specify the output language ?
For example :
On an iPhone in french i'll get country Italie instead of Italy.
I developed an app for Windows phone. Now I want to deploy it on Windows app store and wants to put restriction.I want only specific people will able to install it. How can I do that. Any suggestion will be appropriated.
Thanks,
Well that depends on who these specific people are. You can set age restrictions and region restrictions, and that's about it.
If you mean you want to hand-pick users that can use your app, then provide a login screen where you manually authorize your registered users.
If you mean that only users you choose can download the app, then you can't use the Store; you'll need to use sideloading.
You can control distribution in the Distribution and Visibility section of your app submission on the developer dashboard.
There are three basic options (for Windows 10 - two for Windows Phone 8.x):
Hide this app and prevent acquisition. Customers with a promotional code can still download it on Windows 10 devices
Give codes to the people you want to be able to use the app. This is Windows 10 only.
Hide this app in the Store. Customers with a direct link to the app’s listing can still download it, except on Windows 8 and Windows
8.1
Send links to the people you want to use the app. This will work on Windows Phone 8.1 as well as Windows 10. Anybody with a link can download it though, so it won't truly limit to just the people you want to use the app.
Hide this app and make it available only to the people you specify below, who can download this app on Windows Phone 8.x devices. A
promotional code may be used to download this app on Windows 10
devices
This is the classic beta-mode for Windows Phone 8.x. You can specify which Microsoft Accounts have access to the app.
It is possible to "register" an windows phone7 App Name before the app goes on the app store or market palce?
For example i want register the name before my application completion so that no one else comes up with the same name.
No, you can't. Duplicate names are allowed on the Windows Phone marketplace anyway, so reserving a name wouldn't make sense.
Basically, I followed that Microsoft provided How-to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff967550(v=VS.92).aspx
to localize my applications title.
Worked like a charm, but now I wanted to upload my app to the windows marketplace for publishing and there my application title is shown everywhere as
#AppResLib.dll, -100
Should I just ignore it?
Will it magically work "later"?
Did I do something wrong or is it just impossible to have localized app titles in the marketplace?
Okay, with a hint from the WP7 developer forum I found out that in the WMAppManifest.xml / the entry
Title="#AppResLib.dll, -100"
will never work because the correct one has to be
Title="#AppResLib.dll,-100"
.
Ouch!
Solved.