For some reasons we do not want to use the GKMatchmakerViewController. Currently we are offering the user of our App the possibility to invite their Game Center friends via a friends list displayed in our UI.
While this is still possible in iOS 10, the user will no longer have the possibility to add the GC friends. Therefore we want to use the new message-based invites introduced in iOS 10.
How can this be archived without using the GKMatchmakerViewController? I just want to display a button invite friends which opens the view to send message-based invites to anybody exactly as the button in the GKMatchmakerViewController does.
It is currently (iOS 10.2) not possible to display the iMessage view without the GKMatchmakerViewController.
In my app, I'm going to still provide fully custom views for the matchmaking. Only if a player on a device with iOS 10 wants to invite a friend, I'll display the GKMatchmakerViewController. This is not a great solution but currently, it seems like the most feasible workaround.
I'll also file an issue for that in Apple's bug reporter.
See GKGameSession. This class can send invite link. May be ios10 only
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I am developing a Google Action for Google Assistant and it is not yet a state where I can release. Even so I want it to be available for some tester, and in a near future, my client.
The simulator with the "test" is somewhat limited at auth request, name recognition (since it will only knows my action) and experience (to show my client), so I prefer not to depend on it for this case.
I found it is only possible to interact with a test version of an action if the project owner's account is logged in as a Google account in the phone where you want to call the action. Is it correct? Or there is another way?
I even tried adding my wife's Google account as a viewer to the project, but I am unable to call my action from her phone.
You can add people as a viewer to the project. Before those users can call your action on any of their devices, they will need to use the test console at https://console.actions.google.com/ once, this will enable testing on their device. After that they will be able to interact with your action on their devices.
Do note, the time in which the action is available on their account is limited by a time period (about a couple of months). If they cant access the action any more after a couple of months, just repeat the above step to reactivate testing for their account.
Update
One thing that you could consider in the two approached posted by #Prisoner and me is if your testers need to test on just a device or need access to the console as well. Using the approach from #Prisoner will allow your users to test on devices. The above approach will also allow testers to use the console at https://console.actions.google.com/.
In addition to #Jordi's answer, you can also do an Alpha Release of your Action. This lets you permit up to 20 additional accounts to the released version
Once you permit them using the console, you will send them the opt-in URL, which they should visit on a mobile device with that account. Once they have opted into the Alpha, they can activate it using the regular trigger phrase.
I have created an app for the iPhone and iPad less than a month ago that uses MailCore2 to send emails without the use of a dialog box (like the one MFMailComposeViewController uses).
The app works great and based on reviews, the implementation of MailCore2 provides a sense of security to users when sending messages.
I am in the middle of creating the same app on the Apple Watch itself, and was wondering if implementation of MailCore2 was possible on this device. If so, can a link be attached so I could see how to implement this into my project? If this can't be implemented, are there other third party solutions for sending emails without a dialog box on the Apple Watch?
Thanks in advance to all who answer.
I haven't checked in a while but I was under the impression that no code actually gets executed on the Watch. You do all processing on the device and then send your results to the Watch via an extension (like the Today extensions in notification centre). The Watch only stores the UI and doesn't execute any code. In this case, as everything would still be done on the phone, I don't see why MailCore wouldn't work or would work differently.
Maybe they've changed the SDK since I last looked though and code is now executable on the Watch?
Is it possible to receive email notification for new comments on the Support page of a Chrome extension in the webstore?
On the support page of a Chrome extension I can add a new question, suggestion or bug report but I don't receive any notification about responses.
I had the same problem. I have several apps in the Chrome Web Store and I found it tedious to be constantly checking. I found an extension that claimed to have this functionality, though I found it periodically lost my list of extensions and wasn't able to actually fetch reviews consistently. You can try the extension here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/my-extensions/igejgfmbjjjjplnnlgnbejpkpdajkblm?hl=en. It is also open source, so it could be improved.
I ended up writing some of my own scripts to periodically check and send me an email when there is a new review or support request. I made it available to use as a hosted service (currently free, though I plan on asking for a little money to defray the hosting costs as well as some coffee money). Check out the hosted service at https://www.chromebeat.com. It has a full list of the Chrome webstore apps and extensions and can send you notifications on a new support issue or review. Right now it only checks hourly and sends on the hour.
Also, when you respond to a support request, the user who reported it doesn't get any kind of notification. The best way around that I've found is to actually message that person's Google+ profile, either by adding them to a circle (e.g. App users) posting publicly and mentioning them in the post, or for some users it's possible to message directly with hangouts.
[update: Oct 2015. It's now possible to "Reply" to reviews in the web store, so that's probably the best way to respond to user reviews directly]
As far as I know, there is no such option. You will have to periodically check it.
Which makes using the built-in Feedback quite useless - you're better off using something like a public bug tracker as your "Support" link and disabling Feedback.
Existing feature request: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=295837
As of 2015-03-23, it is untriaged.
No, that has not been implemented, even approaching a decade later.
New Solution:
The two options in the current answer are no longer working, so I made a small utility app to solve this problem.
You can submit your extension's id and your email address and Webstore Watch will notify you within 1 minute of a new support request.
https://gmanicus.github.io/WebstoreWatch/
Let me know if this goes down or if you experience problems. I can't guarantee 100% reliability, but I will do my best to maintain it.
I'm using monotouch to develop an application and part of it requires me to be able to switch off the likes of the internet and texting. I've searched through the documents and can't seem to find how to do it without the user being asked (that part is important).
I can do it simply enough with Android, but not with iOS.
Is there a way?
No. Apple does not expose APIs to do this without prompting the user.
I want to send advertisements to the application users using Push notification but i don't know is it possible or not.Can anyone help me to solve this issue.
If you want to send advertisements to your users, I would suggest iAd, theres a nifty tool called iAd Producer.
Another way to deliver other content besides iAds would be to use a UIWebView and create your own web based content that you can present as a modal view, or however else you would like.