I am about to start development on an UWP Application. One of the last minute requirements was to be able to support white-labeling the application for our partners. Does anyone have any experience doing this using the Universal Windows Platform that would be willing to give me some insight on resources I should be looking at?
Some basic questions I have is:
Is it possible? I read about it being done with iOS and Android.
How do you create the AppPackage for each partner?
Localization differences? Where one localization may refer to it as one product, but another refers to it as the other product.
Or is this something where I would bundle everything up and send it to the partner to create their own upload? If this is the case, is there a how-to on that?
Some of these might be basic questions, but this is the first time I have created a white-label application, so it is all new to me.
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When you submit App to store you can find option:
This way you can make your app visible only to your partners. And you can also register as many apps as you like (each one for separate partner)
Or you can distribute your app thrue Windows Store for Business.
Take a look also at this link, it might be helpful for you
Distribute LOB apps to enterprises
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So i'm designing a new application with Nodejs and packaging into an executable then putting a release in github, I want to be able to monitor how many people are using my executable?
I was thinking about creating an api server and my application just make a call to that API service but I thought there might be something already out there any help?
The easiest way is to connect third party services that do that. The most famous one is Google Analytics
You just need to create your developer account and embed a few lines of tracking code. After that you can see full info about your visitors including their location.
I am working with a team to develop a Google Action for an Organisation called 'Rocket Chat'. Now what we want to do is that, to create one main account under that organisation, where frontend and backend will be hosted and also give access of this account to a few Developers. What will be the most efficient way of doing this?. Any ideas or suggestions on how to do that are appreciated. Thanks.
Frontend is hosted on Dialogflow and for backed we are hosting our fulfilment on Firebase. If you want more details on our setup, please visit here => https://github.com/RocketChat/google-action-rocketchat
The "correct" way to do it would be for every developer to use their own account, and share a project with all of them. This also will allow you to have more granular permissions for each developer.
In addition to having ownership of the project, you may also want to have some processes in place to mitigate potential issues. If everyone uses one project, it's possible to run into race conditions if multiple developers upload the same cloud function. The Dialogflow console also may have issues with multiple editors at one time.
For easier development, each developer may want their own separate prototyping project which gives them full control over the environment, and then have some way to integrate their changes into one master project.
I'm creating a UWP application that will be used exclusively on rugged Win10 tablets by a group of initially 10-20. If things go well it will be expanded to 100 users. These users are employees of our company, but will be remotely located.
Currently, with the test tablets, I am pushing the packages in google drive and manually copying them to the tablets, unzipping and executing the ps file on the tablet. This is way to complicated for even a beta test group of our users.
I'm looking for short-term/long-term recommendations for deployment. Someone mentioned SCCM to me and I've read a little, but that seems like quite a major endeavor to host. I would prefer something like a "private store" concept, but I can't find anything like that.
You can create a private store for your company. The best solution is probably to use Windows Store for Business. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/business-store
Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD) accounts for your employees are needed if you select this solution.
An alternative way is to use HockeyApp http://hockeyapp.net to deploy your application.
According to your description, HockeyApp should meet your requirement. Via HockeyApp, you can upload and distribute builds for beta or enterprise distribution using our web UI, or our API. HockeyApp also supports build servers like Jenkins or Visual Studio Team Services. Don't forget to upload your dSYM or
mapping.txt to get readable crash reports.
With HockeySDK for UWP integrated, you can also:
Integrate our open-source SDK to:
Collect crash reports
Show update alerts for new beta builds
Add a feedback view directly into your app
For more information, please visit support.hockeyapp.net.
I am an WPF developer with little knowledge for the way "mobile" apps work but in general I believe that they work in some sort of sandbox way (meaning they should not be able to access each others process, info etc., I might be totally incorrect on this one). So I am wondering if such "limitations" are applied to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps?
The reasoning for my question is that I would like to write and app that checks if another Universal App is in process and use some of its information. In WPF there are ways of doing just that but in UWP apps I am not sure if it is/should/will be possible.
Thanks.
There are a couple of solutions in Windows 10. Firstly, if you are building an enterprise app and can also side-load normal Desktop apps, you can use this technique to build your UI as a UWP but also be able to break out of the sandbox and do other things on the desktop.
Secondly, if the app you want to read from is cooperative (ie, is designed to provide information; you're not just grabbing it without permission) then you can use App to App services to send and receive information between two consenting applications.
Both links are to //build videos but you can download the slides too that should contain code samples.
I would like to know how can I implement the search contract from within the app, to search/find a few files present inside the application.
As far as I know, there are a lot of articles especially from msdn, blogs, etc which helps us create a normal search contract to search/look for apps/books, etc on win8 system, but I have not come across any valuable source for implementing search within the app.
Your response will eb of great help to me :) Thanks in advance..!
As I know, you can add a search contract using Add a New Item command in Visual Studio. The IDE will register the appropriate handlers to catch QuerySubmitted event or Search Activated events. The former is used for capturing search event while your application is the main app on screen and the second one is for situations where your application is not running as the active app.
What you search in your application isn't important. It's completely your own business. You can search for files inside your apps or anything else.
Recently I've read an article on MSDN about this. Maybe useful for you too
Adding search to an app
Also similar issue here on StackOverflow