When the user opens my Windows Phone app, he should be shown his current position - either using Google maps or Bing maps.
I tried to integrate Bing maps in my app, but the question is:
How do I locate the exact or nearby location of the user?
The map is just a control, on which you can show your position if you got it from the GeoCoordinateWatcher. You can look for good examples (e.g. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dragoman/archive/2010/09/21/wp7-code-using-the-geolocation-api.aspx ) on the web but if you need I can help to implement it too.
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I see that google drive picker have a minimum size frame, it can't be responsive on mobile web view. But I saw an extension google drive on slack and it's responsive.
Anybody know how to build google drive picker like extension on slack? Is drive picker actually able to modify to make it responsive or is it customize by Google Drive API?
Any tutorial reference is apreciate. Thanks
There is currently no specific tutorial with regard to mobile support of Picker API for mobile devices. I believe that the Slack team has written their own implementation for the interface and just makes calls to Drive REST API. So if you like the same functionality, it is expected that you also write your own.
This SO thread seems to confirm this also.
As in title. Is it possible to implement maps other than Google Maps or Mapbox (they are expensive)? I would aim into Open Street Maps or other free solution as I would like to use it in my commercial app.
You should be able to use open street maps fine in a NativeScript application.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Apple_iOS & https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android
You would just need to call into the OSM maps API. You can check out several blogs from nsbloggers.com as several bloggers have written posts on how to take a native component and make it into a NativeScript plugin.
I'd like to know if is there a way to draw a balloon like that from Google Maps using Bing Maps on Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight).
Refer this step-by-step tutorial for the creating custom Pushpins on your Bing map.
URL of the Google 'Balloon' marker: link
I can't find any information on this because I don't even know what it's called. When someone does a web search on Windows Phone, it will return some app results at the top of the page. What is this called? If I knew the term, I'm sure I could find the info I need to do it. Thanks!
The google term you're looking for is "Search Extensiblity" and it's actually a WP7.5 ("Mango") feature and not a WP8 feature. Basically, You'll need to expose a humongous structured XML document for Bing server to index. Bing will then tell WP8 which apps have relevant results for the current search term based on your structure XML data.
MSDN docs # http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh202969(VS.92).aspx
MSDN Webcast # http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsmobile/hh369941.aspx
Is there any way to work with the built in to-do list in WP7? I noticed that if you show your to-dos in the calendar then Appointments.SearchASync() will also bring them but without subject nor notes, which renders it pretty much useless.
An online service I could link my phone to that also provided an open API would also be a valid solution.
Check Calendars (Live Connect API)
I fear , Currently , You can't create or edit to do lists in windows phone 7 via SDK .