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[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Mercurybird:
Screen blanking (screensaver) and locking.

I am tired of the fact that I start listening to a podcast, video, or music, and after the specified time in the setup the screen blanks and then the phone locks. Everything keeps going but I hate that I either have to unlock it again with my password or touch it every few minutes. I would like an app that will prevent the phone from doing that unless I tell it to.

My phone is the HTC Titan X310e with the Deepshining ROM onboard.

Jim
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] joymadurga.bp:
Me
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Jim Chapman:
I'll be releasing a WP7 port of the 'Freda' ebook reader that already runs on WM6.x and earlier. I'll also be using the Freda code-base to develop customised book-reader software for on-line book-publishing sites.

With luck, it will be there on Marketplace when WP7 launches.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Dr-Death:
To hear beautifully! I like Freda!

cya dr-death
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] gokuman56:
[REQUEST] Live Wallpaper Animation Showing change over day

http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/live-wallpaper/

Can someone develop an app similiar to this for Windows Mobile

Thanks

MOD EDIT: Changed to request. I am unaware of this functionality being available.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] ~~Tito~~:
To Software Development!

~~Tito~~
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Tom Servo:
Requires multitasking. So not yet.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Jim Chapman:
Freda is now released for Windows Phone 7. See here for further info.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] ilabstudios:
[App Req.] ScummVM Port for WP7

I know it's early in the game but is it possible to get a port working for WP7? I imagine playback would be pretty amazing on the 1GHZ AMOLED devices.

3D is great but nothing beats the classic 80s/90s games. :-)
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Prinzessin Horst:
Is there any offline navigation software for WP7?

Hi folks,

does anyone know if there will be a navigation software like iGo or Navigon available for WP7?

If yes, when?

Just ordered my new LG and now i'm curious about that.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Omega Point:
There isn't at the moment, hopefully someone will release one soon. Although CoPilot have said over that they have no plans to support WP7 at this time.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Prinzessin Horst:
Unfortunately i read the same from iGo :(

In some reviews i saw a tile with the navigon logo.

Perhaps they will release a version soon... hopefully.

If there's no solid offline navi with all the maps 'n stuff for WP7 it will never replace my HD2.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Iridox:
WPCentral had one on their front page today. Telenav or something like that
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] cseven:
The phones from T-Mobile Germany are supposed to come with a limited version of Navigon software, they start selling on the third of next month iirc.

So I guess there also will be a full version.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] pyr77:
I think we are just few months before we will have almost everything on WP7, including offline navigation. There will be a big boom on Windows phones next year, i hope (i am even sure!).
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] JEEtoP:
The Navigon tile seen around is from Engadget's hands-on with the HTC 7 Mozart - I can't post the link unfortunately.

Seems like there's no reason for the tile to be on a WP7 device and not be coming soon.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Omega Point:
I think this is the link you mean: http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/11/htc-7-mozart-first-hands-on/

You can see the tile at the bottom of the screen in the top image.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] JEEtoP:
That's the one, thanks
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] warenbe:
i hope Igo will be developed for WP7
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Stairmand:
There was a screenshot of Windows Phone 7 with a TomTom icon from Microsoft too but I doubt it was legit. They did the same with Andry Birds.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] nirpaudyal:
Freda functionally is amazing - but the looks just not there. I would be happy helping you out in the design department.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Jim Chapman:
Always glad to receive suggestions (though do bear in mind that, if you want recognition or even payment for any suggestions, we need to discuss Intellectual Property matters up-front).

Also please keep in mind that in writing Freda I'm limited by some constraints, including:

1) It's a spare-time project for me; I don't have a team of programmers, animators and graphic artists at my disposal, to convert design ideas into implementation reality. Ideas submitted in the form of XAML files with illustrative C# code-behind stand a good chance of getting adopted; design ideas expressed in less concrete forms may not make the cut.

2) I've built Freda in WP7 Silverlight, to let me maximise re-use of the old WM6.x code base, and because Sliverlight does a lot of the heavy lifting for you when it comes to implementing screen layouts, user dialogs and basic animation effects. In that environment I have no access to XNA functions.

3) Because it's in Silverlight, Freda suffers from:

i) Silverlight's very poor performance at rendering text (which limits my options for fancy page transitions and smooth scrolling through the book);

ii) Silverlight's limitation that it can't manage canvasses having either dimension larger than 2048 pixels (which limits my capability for clever navigation effects).

4) Because of memory and performance issues with the current version of the WP7 Panorama control, I have implemented Freda's main navigation screens using Pivot controls. If the Panorama control gave better performance and used less memory, I would look at it again.

There's another design decision which is a matter of personal taste (but because it's personal taste, I am quite unlikely to back down on it!): I want Freda to look like a Windows Phone app. I know that the writers of Stanza and Aldiko are very much into pseudo-leather and walnut wood effects, to make their screens look 'more like a real library containg paper-and-cardboard books'. I'm not going to do such things; I think they look cheesy and silly, and actually go against the Metro UI guidelines (which favour a clean, fresh chrome-less presentation, for instance).

Thanks for your interest in Freda

Jim
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] copilot19:
Here is a home made Video from Navigon Software on HD7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyI2Jvu8Iho&feature=player_embedded
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] nirpaudyal:
Jim,

Thats probably the problem.

I am looking at these screenshots: http://www.turnip.demon.co.uk/jim/freda/

The use of blue is not a good idea at all. Its simply not clean. The layout and everything is amazing, but I personally dont agree with the colour.

I personally think the logo can be touched up a lot more.

Its an amazing software - but if you just played about with the design - i.e. made it "clean" as per the metro interface, it would be simply amazing.

Cant see much work needing to be done, but a little work would go a long way.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Jim Chapman:
The colour is the UI 'accent' colour. Freda uses whatever accent colour is selected in the phone's settings. So if you want pink, select pink. As for whether I'm using the accent colour appropriately ... I'm using it in two places:

1) For UI elements that open up a new book. I think that's consistent with Metro (considering the way that 'tiles' work, I think the 'open new book' action is the right sort of action to associate with a tile - and of course tiles are displayed in the accent colour).

2) To give visual feedback when a page tap has been recognised, and will result in turning a page or opening a menu. Here, I am less sure of my ground; the Metro guidelines don't say much on the subject, but I think it would be more consistent with Metro if instead I applied a shadow or tilt effect to the page. But when I tried this, it was laggy and visually confusing. When I have a real phone to work with, I'll be experimenting with this some more (so far all development has been done on the emulator).

I expect you're right. I aimed for something that said 'simple text' to me, and that would be recognisable to users of the Windows Mobile 6.x version of Freda.

'Clean' is I suspect a matter of taste. And de gustibus non est disputandum ;)

But I'm happy to consider any specific suggestions (though unless other people join this discussion, it might be better to take it off line into PM/email, rather than have a thread that's of interest to only two people!).

Thanks,

Jim
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] ThePhoenixUK:
CoPilot are working on a version for WP7, I emailed them a few days ago and they replied back they had not had time to do the testing on it yet but would hopefully get it sorted ASAP and would be making a announcement on their site/blog as soon as they know anything. Should not be too long though.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] phoneman09:
[Q] WP7 keyboard for hd2?

Is there anyone who has taken the wp7 keyboard and transferred it to the hd2 yet? I don't have a wp7 device yet to try it.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Ren13B:
I seriously doubt the WP7 keyboard will ever work on anything besides WP7. If you want the keyboard wait for WP7 to be ported to the HD2.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] circleofomega:
Try Swype 3.9 with Lesscro's WP7 series skin..its as close as u can get to the the keyboard...
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] paschott:
Jim,

I'm probably missing this somewhere, but is there a way to pull in our own files easily to WP7? I see that you support online archives, but am not sure how we'd get self-made ebooks onto the device. Can you clarify how that would work? Can we set up our own personal webserver? If any e-book files are on the device, will Freda see them?
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Jim Chapman:
Microsoft doesn't provide any generic way to put your own files onto the phone - there is no 'ActiveSync', and in fact WP7 doesn't support the idea of a generally accessible file system that you can copy files into so that apps will be able to see them. Each app runs in its own isolated little piece of file system, and in general they can't share files between them.

I'm looking at ways for getting your own book collection onto Freda. Right now, there is one way that works OK, which is to install Calibre on your PC, point Calibre at your book collection, then start the Calibre Content Server. Then you create a Freda catalog that points at your Calibre content server (actually it ships with an entry that you can adapt), and you will see all your books as entries in that catalog; when you click on one of them, it will download onto your phone, and you can read it. Once a book is downloaded, you can read it whenever you want (you won't need to be connected to the network to see it, because it's now locally present on your phone; Freda will store up to 20 books on your phone in this way). There is a link to a detailed 'how-to' walkthrough in the manual at http://www.turnipsoft.co.uk/freda .

You can also, using DropBox and a program called Calibre2Opds, post your book collection on line so that it's always accessible to Freda as long as your phone has internet connectivity (because the solution I described previously will only work when Calibre Content Server is actually running on your PC). But the DropBox approach has privacy issues because it means publishing your whole book collection to everyone on the internet.

Ideally what you'd want is a way to copy your entire book collection up onto your phone, so that all of it is accessible to Freda, whether you have network connection or not. I'm still pondering the best way to do that, because it's kinda fiddly. The basic idea would be to run a SOAP web service on your PC that exposes all the files, and have a client on your phone that downloads whatever files you tell it to (and puts them into Freda's private file system). But from a design perspective this will be complicated, because:

1) It is going to involve some very long file transfers (a moderately large book collection could take an hour or more to copy over WiFi), and these need to start/stop/resume tidily, without losing or corrupting files.

2) I need to store metadata, or at least a file/folder structure.

3) The phone-side client has to deal sensibly with moving and renaming files (and the WP7 operating system actually does not support these operations, bizarrely enough).

4) I need to protect the user from filling up the phone file system (but WP7 doesn't give me any APIs that I can use to check whether the file system is full)

So in short the answer is: right now, you have a couple of not entirely satisfactory ways to do this, and I am continuing to think about the best answer.

Cheers,

Jim
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] ceesheim:
XDA App Plans ?

Is there someone planing to make a XDA App ?

it would be nice if that app could push new (pre selected) messages , lets say you selected to only get new messages from "Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking" and that it will update your tile .
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] ceesheim:
Ok board express will do the job :)

Sent from my HD7 T9292 using Board Express
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Smokexz:
I am really looking forward for one. For now, the browser handles the xda site quite nicely.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Smokexz:
At least its not another "WP7 on HD2?". As much as I know, the WP7 keyboard will only work on WP7 devices. For now, just wait for WP7 to be ported to the HD2.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Ronsard:
[Q] PIM Backup for WP7

Out of curiosity, is there any such app in development for WP7? I'm mostly interested in backing up text messages; the built-in cloud backup for contacts, emails, and calendars works for me.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] The Gate Keeper:
at present no. the APIs have not been released for this sort of thing just yet. hopefully they'll come sooner rather than later.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] schoem:
To be frank on this, although ceesheim has already mentioned it:

You can use Board Express (Pro) to read this forum on your WP7.

You can at least read with the free version. The trial gives you replies at a maximum length of 70 characters and the purchased Pro version ... well, you guess, no limitation. :)

I use it, and I love it, it works great and not only with XDA but thousands of other vBulletin forums.

--Chris
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] steezee:
I'm hoping for an XDA Hub...If someone could take the HTC hub and get the news feed on it to find latest posts on the users favorite device (keeping the HTC clock and weather animations)
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] nrfitchett4:
while maybe not ideal, I think this is a decent start considering the new rules for wp7.

:D
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] nomadica:
First up, great app! I was really hoping I could read all my epub files on WP7, and now I can :) I was going to start work on my own ereader, just for personal use (I'm also a WP7 dev).

Some questions and thoughts...

- the spacing between words is way too tight. It's particularly noticeable when I force left-justify. The words almost run into each other and it's quite hard/unnatural to read. Is there a way to increase the inter-word spacing (or even letter spacing)? Have you adjusted the kerning or something, because text elsewhere on the phone never looks like that. I'm actually tempted to just use an ereader on one of my other devices because of this.

- I really appreciate that you're going for the Metro look rather than cheesy leather, wood etc.! That's always bugged me on other ereaders. Having said that though, I have some thoughts on your design. Take it or leave it, this is only an opinion, but I do do a lot visual/UI design and am very focused on minimalism (which is what the Metro style embodies), so I hope my thoughts can be helpful.... The app is very non-Metro overall, with lots of non-standard ways of doing things. I find it quite confusing/jarring. The accent colour on the books list is definitely not Metro-like (I thought it was an error when I first saw it). That effect is pretty much only used on tiles, not files (and tiles are square/double-squares anyway). Better to stick with simple book cover/title/author (and the question marks make it look like something is wrong). At the moment it all looks pretty clunky. I think you should drop any visual elements that aren't necessary - like on the settings screen. Many of the options there could be simple toggles, etc. Have a good look at the way the system settings are done, with toggles and drop downs for multiple choices, etc. It would be much nicer and consistent with the phonet.

- the progress bar you're using looks like the built in one, it's really jerky (it's a known problem with indeterminate mode), and because you always show it every time I open my book - Freda doesn't auto-open to my last book :( - it is really distracting. Google "performanceprogressbar wilcox" for an alternative progress that will run smoothly by running on the compositor (GUI) thread rather than the UI thread. I used it in one of my WP7 apps and it made a HUGE difference! I think once the current page has loaded, you should just hide it anyway.

Anyway, I have lots of thoughts about your program (especially the UI) and would be happy to contribute if you're interested. I love the app, and really want to see it look awesome! Once again, great work!

Cheers,

Dean.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] blahism:
I think i'll give Freda a try here and see how it works!

I do know Amazon officially announced Kindle for WP7 and that should be available soon - they even had a demo of the app with screenshots for launch a few weeks ago.

I also got word that OverDrive media is writing an app for Windows phone 7 so overdrive content should soon be usable on windows phone - including ebooks and audio books for checkout from your library!
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Jim Chapman:
I attach a screenshot of an alternative bookshelf appearance. Any comments?
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] nrfitchett4:
I like it!!!
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] The Gate Keeper:
[Q] App shortcut to webpage

Well the scenario is pretty easy for anyone with a windows phone to understand what i'm asking for. Anyone who has YouTube app installed on their phone can duplicate this. When you click YouTube it opens up IE pointing to YouTube. And when you click back inside IE, it takes you back to the app list.

Is it possible to duplicate this behaviour with my own website? We're working on something similar to this but what behaviour we're getting is that the application lunches, which then goes to launch the browser (which is correct), but then when you hit back, it goes back to the application itself, causing it to launch another tab in the browser with the link.

Does anyone know what we can do to replicate the behaviour of the YouTube app?

I know it might sound a bit bizarre, but does anyone have the XAP for the YouTube app? If they could use reflector or something to see what is in that XAP on how they do it, much appreciated.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] JEEtoP:
I've been in contact with TomTom and thought I would share their somewhat disheartening response to Windows Phone 7 development.

I would of thought following iOS they would of been a bit earlier to the party this time around but it seems TomTom don't like being there at the beginning :(
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] BazzerBazzer:
Orange Maps coming

On Mozart tile on screen saying:- Coming Soon. Also on their web site.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] paulf707:
I spoke to Orange about this yesterday. When I upgraded my phone and contract (to Raccon contract that includes Orange Maps) I was told to make sure I didn't use Orange Maps until my new contract kicked in (which was yesterday).

When I phoned Orange I found out these two interesting facts:

1. According to Orange Tech Support, Orange Maps is not supported on HTC Mozart (which I thinks means they haven't writtent the app yet - hence the 'coming soon' icon)

2. Also according to Orange Tech Support, there have been problems with the Orange Maps service - it hasn't been working since April (!) and they have no idea when it will be back online. The official help advice from Orange Tech Support is to try using Google Maps!!

Needless to say I'm lodging a few complaints with Orange....
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] atan.ismail:
[Q] Call Blocker / Manager?

I am looking to getting a WM7 device, but would like to know if there's any call blocker / manager along the lines of Super Private Conversation ("SPC") (Android) available for WM7.

Free or paid, it doesn't matter, but I need to have one... for reasons best not to elaborate.

I've asked here are my few weeks of research have turned up zilch.

Many TIA.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Ren13B:
Developers don't have access to the required api for an application like you're describing.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] zard:
Please build an Internet Radio App!

Over here, there is Capital FM but it doesn't allow me to add in other Internet Radio links. I'm hoping that someone could build one that allows scanning for Internet Radio links or at least allow manual keying in of links.

Thanks.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] zard:
I have Singtel Xplorer that came with 6 months subscription with my HD7. It is from http://global.telmap.com/. It's not fantastic but at least better than the Bing Map.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] SivEd:
Yes I have an Orange Maps "Coming Soon" icon which they helpfully put on my home screen to waste some space! I could understand if it was going to be a couple of days, but otherwise an email/text to say it was available at the right time would have peeed off far fewer people. Seen at least one Orange press release out there saying it was available at launch in London. I have no faith in Orange development as problems on their web site etc seem to stick around for months or even years before someone gets round to fixing them! Not holding breath.

Telmap looks like they will be there first and the flash movie on their home page shows the software travelling around London which is encouraging for me at least :)

Pete

P.S. This is on a Samsung Omnia 7, I don't think Orange have an app at all yet.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] noelito:
sirius xm app coming?

any word on a sirius xm app for windows phone coming?
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] hiazn:
Hub creator app

What would be really great if possible would be an app to create your own hubs in wp7! Say if you want to group specific tiles together without having a start screen 10miles long. Like submenus... Just a thought.

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[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] hiazn:
Any thoughts anyone? I'd buy if someone created a good looking app that did this...

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[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] at45:
Shoutcast would be cool
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] retrofred:
No Cash Organizer App for WP7

i emailed the main guy at inesoft about the possibility of cash organizer coming to WP7 soon, and was told no. seems the long time Wm program is going to android. i feel a disappointed at the news.

So my search is on for a good personal finance app for WP7, any ideas?
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] nrfitchett4:
I emailed sirius about this and they say that there are no current plans but will re-evaluate at a later date, so I don't think it will happen right now. Very disappointing, though not unexpected since they never did a winmo app either.