Access images, create contacts and restore images - xamarin.ios

I wan't to do this using Mono, but Mono is so transparent the question is really regarding the Android & iOS API.
I want to do the following:
Read all contacts, send to server
Read all available images in the gallery, send to server
Download contacts from server, restore to contacts
Download images from server, restore to gallery
Now, i know i can read the contacts from both iOS and Android. The rest im not so sure about. Is it possible to get all the images from the gallery? Is it possible to create contacts programmaticly? Is it possible to create images and store to gallery programmaticly?
I am interested in doing the mentioned for both iOS and Android! Is i possible?
It is perfectly fine if the app prompts the user to get full acces to mentioned librarys (contacts and gallery).

If you want a unified API across both iOS and Android, you should investigate the Xamarin.Mobile API.
They cover contacts already, and you should submit a request for them to consider a general photo gallery API--makes sense that developers would want a cross-platform way to work with it as well.

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How can you connect python to the Microsoft store and download an app?

I was wondering if there are modules, or code snippets to create a program that connects to the Microsoft store, in the background, and download an app(without pyAutoGUI). Thanks in advance.
There are no Official API's for accessing Microsoft store, A Possible solution is to use requests library or other equivalent to create a bot that can access various fields available on the website and navigate through, if you always want a certain(Same) application to be downloaded may be you can go directly to that links page and use get request for the download button as submit, this should work in theory, but again this will also keep breaking in short durations as Microsoft keeps making changes to it's website.
P.S. You might want to fool the website by adding headers to your request.

Instagram API / Submission Review / Issue with Video Screencast shared on public network

We would like to use the Instagram API to harvest comments from a Brand page into a CRM Solution.
From this CRM Solution, agents will consult and possibly reply to Instagram Posts.
I think the most appropriate use case for what we plan to do is this one:
"My product helps brands and advertisers understand, manage their audience and media rights"
Here my question:
During the submission review, we need to join a Video Screencast of our project.
This part is really annoying for us as:
We don't want to share on a public platform (like youtube) the details of our project and CRM solution
Is there any workaround to this ?
You don't need to "join" video screencast, you need to submit a video of product functionality (use quicktime screen record), upload the video on google drive and share the link, only instagram will be seeing it, only the people u send link will be able to get to the video, it will not be public when sharing from Google Drive, there are varrious settings while sharing. You need to show login flow and all API functionality of app. This worked for me. The usecase looks correct for your app.

Access cards outside my glass app

Is it possible to access card outside your application in android studio? Im trying to catch data from a card which been sent through an google API mirror to my glass using apache server.
If you are talking about access other applications' card using yours, then the answer is no. There is no way you can grab information without the right permission.
Or.. if you are talking about updating your own card, you use Live Cards.
Thanks for the reply. I will be more specific. What I want is to send static cards from a mirror API to my app in my glasses. Then use those static cards, or view them in my notification menu in my app. Is it possible to send static cards from a Mirror API to my app? Im using Android studio.

Posting to Instagram via Script/Online/Program. Anything is good but mobile

I just wanted to know if there is a way to upload images to Instagram WITHOUT using iOS / Android?
I'm really desperate for a solution, if I can't find anything I will have to run a virtual android device or something like that (I have a virtual machine running Windows XP 24/7 anyway)!
Instagram's official RESTful API does not allow for uploading photos, since they want to encourage "life on the go."
However, some work has been put together to document their iPhone API, and some unofficial client libraries have even been made. Check out https://github.com/mislav/instagram/wiki
It seems that's your only alternative at the moment. None of the unofficial libraries look very complete, so you'd have to do the work of sending requests manually, using the reverse-engineered API specs provided in the wiki.

Delete photos via the Foursquare API?

Is it possible to delete photos via the Foursquare API? I don't see any mention of it at https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/, nor did a wild guess of /v2/photos/delete/photoID do anything.
I also didn't see any way to do this (or even see my photos) via the web. It would be nice if there was a way to do this so as to avoid cluttering venues + checkins with photos while in development/testing. Hoping I just missed it.
Thanks!
--Glen
There's no way to do it on the web at the moment, but you can definitely delete photos from the mobile client (long-press on Android, swipe left on iOS).
The delete photo API endpoint is not publicly available because we haven't built the ability to "undo" deletes yet and don't want apps accidentally (and permantently) deleting a user's photos.

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