Suresh M
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Thiruvananthapuram, KL, India
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How To Use List View And Adapter In Xamarin Android Application
In this article, we are going to see how to use ListView and Adapter in Android application using Xamarin. → Read More
Mobile App Developers Should Know About Windows 10 App Development
In this artricle you will learn Mobile App Developers should know about Windows 10 App development. → Read More
Toast Notification In Windows 10 UWP
Toast notification is a message used to display the information fast and an app can construct and deliver to the user is not currently using the app. Windows 10 toast notification have new adaptive templates and interactive actions we can set our toast layout our self, so it is also called Adaptive Toast. Let’s see the steps Create a new windows 10 UWP app. Go to code behind page and add the… → Read More
Radial Gauge For Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform
Display numerical data in graph or any modern way increase the user interface and broad range of radial gauges for displaying distance, speed, duration or any other dynamic data. Let’s see the steps Create new Windows 10 UWP app and name it as your wish. Next right click your project and select Manage NuGet Packages and add the WinRTXamlToolkitControls.Gauge.UWP like the following image. It’s a… → Read More
Sensors In Windows 10 UWP App
Windows 10 SDK comes with lots of new sensors which helps the users to keep health fit to know what the user needs. The new list of sensors are the following, * Altimeter * Activity Sensor * Barometer * Pedometer * Proximity Sensor Let’s see the sensor in detail. To access the sensors API add the following namespace first, Altimeter Altimeter helps to measure the relative altitude i.e. changes… → Read More
Drawing And Inking Using New InkCanvas Control For Universal Windows App
Windows 10 introduced built-in InkCanvas control to capture the user input. I am going to show the use of InkCanvas control to capture the user touch input and save it as image. In Windows 8.1 apps you had to create a Canvas, listen to input events, and render your own strokes, but in Windows 10 use the built-in InkCanvas control to immediately capture use input. This control allows user to… → Read More
3D Map For Windows 10 UWP
In normal map we have only option to show the map in Satellite or Ariel view but in Windows 10 we have option to show 3D map. It’s very easy to implement 3D map in Universal App. Now we are going to see how to create a map control to display the map normally and then set the map control to show the map in 3D. Map control with 3D helps the user to view the location at any angle. Let’s create new… → Read More
Detecting And Get The Battery Status In Windows 10 UWP App
I am going to show you how you can get the status if battery is charged, discharged and the specific amount of percentage. It will show you how you can help users with just few lines of code and ensure that you respect their device’s battery life. It is also useful to notify the battery status before your app perform any battery intensive operation performed by asking plug-in charge when battery… → Read More
Set Specific DeviceFamily XAML Views In Windows 10 UWP
The new Universal Windows Platform introduced a new feature DeviceFamily specific views(UI) which allows developers to define specific XAML page for specific device families (Desktop, Mobile.etc). If we want to have different view for different device families. There are three ways to set specific device family XAML view. Let's see the steps First one, Using DeviceFamily-Type folder Create new… → Read More
Use Drag And Drop Functionality Instead Of File Picker In Windows 10
In Windows 10 platform, a new drag-and-drop functionality was introduced to Windows Universal apps for scenarios such as dragging image or document from your local machine straight into your app. It allows us developers to support more intuitive experiences. Drag and drop is a good way to transfer data within an application or between applications using a standard gesture. Let’s see how simple… → Read More
Migrate Silverlight Phone 8.1 Apps To Windows 10
Universal Windows Platform (UWP) is a single executable binary file that can run on any Windows 10 device. Visual Studio 2015 makes it easy to create these apps from a single solution with a single project. Rewriting or targeting your old Windows Phone Silverlight application to Windows UWP is tedious and may take a lot of time and resource. There are many challenges involved in changing from… → Read More
Background File Downloader For Windows 10
Background transfer is used for long-term transfer or download operations such as video, music, and images. For that time user will allow play around your app don’t stop the user to wait. BackgroundDownloader class will help you to transfer or download the files from the server event the app is running in foreground. If the user exits the app, the download will continue in the background. You… → Read More
HTTP Live Streaming In Windows 10 UWP
Microsoft finally released live streaming API supports in UWP Windows 10. Before that we need third party API Windows Phone Streaming Media Assistance. But it will arrive in UWP. Windows.Media.Streaming.Adaptive namespace：It helps to play over live http media streaming. This namespace definition support many kinds of different adaptive streaming protocols, such as Http Live Streaming or HLS is… → Read More
Solving The Size Limitation Of Controls And Large Text Using TextBlock In Windows Phone
There is a limitation on size of a control in Windows Phone of 2048 pixels only but in some case we need to display a long list of items. For example, TextBlock control is used to show large text but it’s truncated automatically if it more than 2048 pixels. You can notice that if you place more text in textblock then it will disappear automatically due to 2048 pixel issue. So my idea is to… → Read More
Get The Street Address Using GPS Co-ordinates In Windows 10 UWP
Create new Windows 10 project and choose the map control from toolbox list. Geo Location API allows easy to access a device’s current location. Here we will see how to get the longitude and latitude co-ordinates of the device. Firstly, enable the location capabilities to allow the device to access the location like the following screen, Next add the namespace in you code page. Create new… → Read More
Change Apps Title Bar Colour And Enable Back Button In Windows 10 UWP
In Windows 10 by default the white title bars is available for all apps, sometimes we need to change for better UI. Using UI ViewManagement class we can get the application UI properties. So, I am going to get the title bar properties and change the colour using the following code. → Read More
Windows Phone Tips and Tricks
Here are some questions representing the tips and tricks for Windows Phone, Question: How to determine the installed OS version on Windows Phone? Question: How to check whether data connection is enabled on Windows phone device? Question: How to check whether Wi-Fi Connection is enabled on Windows phone device? Question: How to check whether Cellular Data Connection is enabled on Windows phone… → Read More
Windows 10 SplitView Hamburger Menu
The new control SplitView added in Windows 10 and are used to display side menu. Many of them called IT hamburger menu. Two things we need to know “Pane” and “Content”. Pane These properties contain the menu buttons in your app. Content The page content goes in this area. → Read More
Consume Web Service Using HttpClient to POST And GET JSON Data In Windows 10 UWP
REST is a resource that implements a uniform interface using standard HTTP GET, POST, PUT methods that can be located by URI. Windows 10 UWP supports basic get and post web requests using the following two APIs: The System.Net.Http.HttpClient was introduced in .NET 4.5. In Windows 10 this API has changed to top layer of Windows.Web.Http.HttpClient. The supported OS and programming languages are… → Read More
Windows 10 Application Bar
Create new Windows 10 project The App bar is designed to expose application commands to the user. There are two types of app bar you can use. * TopAppBar * BottomAppBar You can put any control that you like into the app bar. Application Bar for Bottom Here's the complete source code, * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * → Read More