I am new on Windows Phone Technology,so I want to get Carrier Signal Strength of Windows Phone,I have seen many links but everyone says no API are available for calculating signal strength,but is there other way to find out signal strength or any third party API are available for windows phone ? Please help me to figure out the solution.
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As far as I know, there is no API for that. If you take a look at How to get network information for Windows Phone and NetworkInterfaceInfo, you'll see that there is no information besides very limited amount.
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Folks,I am planning to build an app to count the number of sms's sent by an user over a period of time.But I am not sure if WP OS SDK gives access to the depth of writing such an app.I am still very new to mobile development,and as Microsoft has limited the access to some API's (ex:language) in the windows phone OS,I was not sure if I can do so.
On the contrary the application I want to build is kind of a basic feature that is in built in many basic phones.I need to get a start for app building,and may also come in handy on my personal phone! ;)Anyone who has come across working on any related feature might help me with his experience.Thank you for your time.
The Windows Phone SDK does not allow developers to access the content of SMS messsages for privacy reasons (or count of those, for that matter).
Your best (and only) bet at the moment is let the user use SmsComposeTask and count the number of messages potentially sent from your app.
Is it feasible to develope an app which has ability to share a file to another window phone 7 device via bluetooth or wifi ? what i want to share is an image, video or music.
I just want to know is it possible or not, so if u know that please help me, very high appreciated !
Currently such APIs are not available for WP7. I hope they make it available in future releases. For information regarding bluetooth read the following article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2449475
As SplashID APP is doing same thing using WIFI. We can use TCP sockets to implement file share feature. we need to send packets in small chunk.
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Mahantesh
Does windows phone currently have APIs for proximity and light sensors?
I want to access these two sensors, but can not find the API.
Is there some methods to use them ?
Unfortunately, no. Sensor APIs available are listed here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.devices.sensors%28v=VS.92%29.aspx
If you really need it, then you should find it & vote for it here: http://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/110705-app-platform ; They are listening to the feedback, if the recent news stories of "native" code access coming soon are true.
I'd interested in sending data from one WP7 to another WP7 phone so I could create 2 player games. If I understand correctly most WP7 will support bluetooth, but its not in the minimum spec, is this correct? What API's can I use to access the bluetooth, any good examples of this out there?
Unfortunately Microsoft don't provide any access to the bluetooth stack via any documented APIs in this version of the Dev tools.
They don't seem to have any sense of urgency about fixing this (or any of the many other missing features), so I wouldn't expect the situation to change any time soon.
Obviously it's early days, I do not know whether this is information that is in the public domain or not yet, but...
I have trawled through some of this site - http://www.windowsphone7series.com/ but I can't seem to find the answer.
Specifically will I be able to write an app on the phone that updates the cloud with the phones current GPS position in the background even when other apps are running in the foreground.
According to ZDNet's post yesterday, Windows Mobile 7 will support multitasking for things like having music playing while using an application, but as far as 3rd party it will most likely not be supported. Things like notifications however will be there, as to help with multitasking.
I hate to relieve myself on your bonfire Christopher but might I suggest that a background GPS process, might not be a good idea. You'd really run down the users battery performance, perhaps if you shared a little more about your idea we could suggest an alternative architecture that didn't require a constant gps post.