Daily Activities already automatically stores sensor data (steps, activities, visited places) locally in the app on your phone. You can review this data in the settings page. In contrast your phone only stores sensor data for 1 week. So if you are…
Trying out the new windows phone 10 preview
A new preview version of windows phone 10 was released yesterday (04/10). I installed it on my Lumia 630 and will show you some screenshots with my comments. At first: Do NOT install this preview version on your „main phone“,…
Update according to windows phone store problems
04/10 – Update from Mary 04/08 – Update: Mary told me that the rollout of the fix should begin in about 1 week. As written in the reply – I cannot reproduce the update problem on my phone, so…
windows phone store „error 80004005“
Yes…the problem still exists. 🙁 As written some users have the problem that they cannot re-install my app Week View although they have purchased it. This problem is also discussed in a swiss smartphone forums, where I am posting sometimes: http://www.pocketpc.ch/windows-phone-8-apps/216452-fehler-80004005-a.html…
windows phone store problems…again :(
Recently I got some emails from users that they are not able to re-install my app Week View although they already purchased it. This is strange since usually you can always re-install an app you purchased once. I tested this…
Adventures in SensorCore SDK land
The Lumia SensorCore SDK (http://developer.nokia.com/resources/library/Lumia/sensorcore-sdk.html) caught my attention since the 0.9 beta version and I always wanted to create an app with it. It allows a developer to access “motion data” (when the user allows it), which is stored on…
Most „helpful“ app reviews
Yes, developer are „real human people“ that read reviews of their apps. 🙂 I am very happy when I get good reviews and I try to help people when they have problems using my app. I also understand when one…
Adding new features is now always as simple as it should be…
It’s been some time since the last blog entry. Meanwhile I am working on some new apps in the category „fitness tracking“, that use the „Sensor Core SDK“ to track steps and activity – more about this later, when the…
Personal thoughts about the windows phone API
Usually I am writing about news according to my apps but today something more general and related to windows phone app development. So read this at your own risk, if you are not a developer. 🙂 Programing windows phone is…
Window phone INTERNAL calendar has a major bug after the last update from MS
Update: Please also check the comments on WPCentral according to this problem: http://www.wpcentral.com/native-calendar-app-windows-phone-81-updated Update 2: I got a reply from MS support according to this problem on a developer forum: They are aware of the problem and working on a fix,…