I am working on entertainment App, I have a query regarding iOS8 handoff feature. I have read about handoff that can be use for safari or other standard iOS Apps only. Is this applicable for custom Apps also?
Thanks,
Purushotham Jinka
No that's not true.
You can handoff between a custom app on one device and the same custom app (or at least from the same developer) on another.
If you only have one app for iOS, you can even handoff between that app and Safari on another if your app experience can be continued on the web.
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I am working on to create a Xamarin Forms app (For Android and iOS both) which will have payment gateway to accept payments from customers. Currently I am using WebView in my app to open the payment page URL. So, my question is that will my app be rejected on Play Store or Apple Store because it is based on WebView? If yes, then is there any alternative to WebView?
It will depend on Apple's review process. If the whole app is just a WebView pointing to a website, then it is likely to be rejected. If the app has other features and functionality of its own, especially utilizing native device functionality, then it will have a better chance of being accepted in the stores.
See App Store Review Guidelines Section 4.2.
I have an application for Teams that works fine when I use browsers: Chrome, Firefox... and with the Desktop application for Teams.
On the other hand If I try to use this application in my mobile with the Android application for Teams, in this case is not working.
In this application I'm using a indexedDB and I think that this is the problem. I would like to know whether the Android application for Teams is using an in-app browser or another type of in-app browser for Android.
During my researchers I have found this about indexedDB and the Android browsers
How can I check the version of my Android Browser?
Could you help me with this problem?
Regards
On Android devices Teams is not showing a paperclip to send images when talking to a bot?
Manifest has been configured with supportFiles: true
On iOS or Windows it was never an issue.
Its a blocking problem, since my customers wants to use Android devices.
#sammydeprez Sending and receiving files through Teams Mobile App is not supported as documented here.
Can i know is it possible to communicate with Beacon without having any Mobile app on device?
Thanks in advance
Both Android and iOS devices need some kind of app installed to interact with your beacons. Some phones have such apps pre-installed, but the options are limited. The two such apps with the widest distribution are:
Google Chrome App (Android/iOS)
Google's Chrome app will interact with beacons supporting Eddystone-URL (also known as physical web), which transmit a URL that can be displayed within Chrome when the app detects it.
This works on both Android and iOS devices with Chrome installed. For newer Android phones, this is a relatively high percentage of devices. For iOS, it is a very small percentage, as the app is not installed by default. This makes it of very limited use on iOS.
The other real drawback to relying on Chrome for beacon detection is the hoops users have to jump through to opt-in, and the way the beacon notifications are buried. Until users opt-in, they will see no notifications on beacon detections. Once they do, they will see a very generic notification "Physical web beacons are nearby", and only once the user taps on that are the specifics about the web page associated with the beacon transmitted URL displayed.
Passbook (iOS)
Apple's passbook app will bring up a passbook entry (usually used for tickets, coupons, etc.) associated with a set of iBeacon identifiers if the user comes within range of the beacon. In order to use this, however, the user must first download the passbook entry to his or her iPhone. Only once this is downloaded and opened will the app respond to associated beacons.
EDIT April 2020: For a time prior to December 2018 Google supported app-less notifications based on beacon detection using their Google Nearby product. This was discontinued in December 2018 due to predictable abuse and spam that it generated. While you may find some outdated documentation online about this ability, understand that this feature no longer works. As of this writing, my understanding is that this answer is still correct.
You should checkout Eddystones from Google. They can push you URLs even without app.
If you want to interact with beacons and do custom stuff (notifications, http requests, etc) you will need an app.
How to implement such appearance for notification card using Android Wear SDK?
Demo video — http://youtu.be/tKoQatxG0_8?t=26s
It has the same custom layout in preview and active mode. But I cannot achieve such behaviour using setDisplayIntent and related API for creating custom layouts. I checked samples of wear apps from SDK, it also has different views for preview and active mode of custom layout notifications.
Oh no!
Right now it's hidden API, so Google can make such appearance for standard apps, but other third-party developers are out of the board.
Confirmed by +Wayne Piekarski — https://plus.google.com/u/0/+BenoitBoDLubek/posts/2o4SVBhWg5z
So the answer is impossible at current moment.