I have application Using WP7.x SDK. I am not using any Window Phone 8 feature.
My App's XAML Pages are fitting perfectly on WVGA and WXGA but on 720P on top of screen there is some blank space. How can i fix this problem (I don't want to create seprate build for Window Phone 8).Please advise.
Unfortunately, this is not possible. The WP7 apps running on WP8 devices are constrained in a 480x800 container.
To take advantage of the 720p screen, you'll have to build a WP8 version of your app.
At least graphically this is possible. You can handle WP7 XNA inputs and graphics right: look my awnswer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23457119/766304
Second thing that you have to do is render your Silverlight / XAML UI with XNA. More information about that from here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh221583.aspx
All of that is tested and works well but this will manipulate only rendering and not XAML input side, input fixing could be possible or not. Still difrense between those two aspect ratios is so small that result can be good enought.
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How can I change the resolution of the phone representing the code when in xaml view in a project?
The phone serves as a drag and drop for the controls, does it have a setting somewhere to set it's resolution. Windows Phone 8 currently have three resolutions; 800x480, 1280x720 and 1280x768.
I'm aware the emulator can be started up with different resolution, but my situation is that my CPU does not support this, im debugging straight on my Lumia 920 (1280x768).
I've got no clue on how the application looks like in 800x480.
But it is a simple application, a preview would be good enough.
You need to open the Device Window: Design -> Device Window
There under the display section you can select the display size (3 available).
Additionally you can test any other resolution by disabling the 'Chrome' option in the device window and setting d:DesignHeight and d:DesignWidth of your page to the desired resolution.
I had the problem and after much time searching google and stackoverflow, I don't think that it is possible to change the resolution of the designer window. However, maybe this link can help you, it helped me back a while ago when I had that problem:
WP8 Emulator screen size
It refers to the emulator, but explains how the app UI will be scaled to match different device resolutions. Hope it helps!
I am familiar with the standard application icon images that come with the Windows Phone sdk, but I would like to use some of these images as demonstrated on the standard start screen, with the 173x173 dimensions for the application tiles. I've tried resizing these, but they are so blurry they aren't worth using. Is there a place to download the same (or similiar) images that come with SDK except in a larger size?
Also have a look at the Icons8 icon pack, they only ask for a link to their site or $199 without a link
Have a look at Metro Studio by Syncfusion. I use it in all my applications and its free.
For my application, there are many features that need to include animations. For example, while loading a ViewController, I need the images and buttons that appear on the screen an intricate Animations that cannot be done in Xcode. So far, I have made only simple animations through Xcode such as shrinking images, buttons moving to a CGPoint, etc. Simple things. If I make these intricate animations in Adobe Flash or another animation software, is there anyway to incorporate it within my application?
Depending on the nature of your application, you could consider writing the application using Flash, and then use Adobe AIR to compile it to run natively on iPhone and iPad. Best of all, Adobe AIR could also compile it to run on Android, Blackberry Playbook and traditional Windows and Mac, so you can write once and run everywhere. By doing so, you can also take advantage of the animation power of Flash.
Apple dod not support flash on iphone or ipad.only youtube can be played. if you want to use any animation make a gif or use HTML5.
Xbox Live tile animation in Windows Phone is alot more dynamic than all the tile animations I was able to produce.
Is it possible to mimic that animation somehow in my live tile?
You can't have animated live tiles to that degree, only first-party applications have access to this functionality at the moment.
http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/Blog/BlogEntry=000554/BlogEntry.aspx
The only animation you get on the main desktop is the background / foreground tile flip animation, but that again is controlled by the OS.
This makes some measure of sense, otherwise the number of animated live tiles from third-party apps could fast degrade your battery.
In the Microsoft Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit 7.1 (http://silverlight.codeplex.com/) has a control called HubTitle, thats allow some additional (and very cool) tiles templates...
Am currently working on a new application at work and am needing some help.
Basically I need to take real time screenshots of an application running on the users desktop(not my application) then warp the image using a shade and display the wrapped screenshot at 60 frames a second.
I have a windows form application that does this but I am getting 6 frames a second and when I scale this up to 1600x1600 it drops to 2fps.
So I thought that if I could do this in xna and move as much as possible to the GPU it would speed it up.
So I have googled and googled and cant find any information on how to get a screenshot of a running application in xna other than my xna application.
Thanks for any help.
You can use XNA or additionaly the DWM or GDI+ to get the full desktop. Here are some links which can help you:
Capture screenshot of hidden desktop
Is there a way to take a screenshot of the user's Windows desktop?
C: take screenshot
What is the best way to take screenshots of a Window with C++ in Windows?
Take screen shot in XNA
I think there is no way to get a window screenshot of another application. You can use some pattern detection code to find out where a window is but I do not recommend this.