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Free Windows Phone 8 Edumds Car App
The Edmunds.com car research and review website now has a FREE app for Windows Phone 8. You can search "Edmunds Viewer" in the marketplace or follow this link right here!
http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=3802d2d5-744f-428d-b7c1-9c574890420c
Free Windows Phone 8 Edumds Car App
The Edmunds.com car research and review website now has a FREE app for Windows
Phone 8. You can search “Edmunds Viewer” in the marketplace or follow this link right here!
http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=3802d2d5-744f-428d-b7c1-9c574890420c
Free Windows Phone 8 Edumds Car App
The Edmunds.com car research and review website now has a FREE app for Windows
Phone 8. You can search "Edmunds Viewer" in the marketplace or follow this link right here!
http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=3802d2d5-744f-428d-b7c1-9c574890420c
Free Windows Phone 8 Edumds Car App
The Edmunds.com car research and review website now has a FREE app for Windows Phone 8. You can search "Edmunds Viewer" in the marketplace or follow this link right here!
http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=3802d2d5-744f-428d-b7c1-9c574890420c
On Friday November 7th The update to my Walmart app had included adding a way for the users to contact me by email. So a user named Jennifer had wrote me an email saying that in the android walmart app there was a way for her to scan barcodes of items. She said that she would really like this feature. So i took to the lovely internet in search of a barcode reader API to implement into my app. I stumbled upon a nokia article about zxing barcode reader. They gave a lot of code on how to make it work so went to make it work.
It started off with making a user interface which contains a canvas and the canvas background with is gonna be a video brush. the videobrush is basically gonna redraw what you see through the camera lens. the extra text blocks are some hints on how to use the barcode.
let us go through some methods now and try to explain whats going on.
OnNavigatedTo method is whats called when the page is navigated to, whether it be from navigating forward or back from another page. but in this method we call new on our camera, and set up and event handler for when it is initialized. We also set up an event handler for the auto focusing of the camera. We also set up an event handler for the camera key being half pressed. Next we set the source of that canvas to our camera so now we can see the camera in the canvas like i stated above. we set up a dispatcher time so that every 250 milliseconds the bar code reader attempts to read the bar code. And last but not least we set up an event handler for if the canvas was tapped. when the canvas is tapped its going to focus the camera at the desired tapped location, we will see code for this later.
next is onNavigatedFrom is called when the user is leaving the page. in this method we just dispose of our camera so its still not in use and do the opposite of registering an event handler. thats actually my first time seeing the -= used with an event handler, pretty cool.
next we have focus_Tapped. this is called when the user taps the canvas. it first checks if the camera is null meaning it wasnt initialized. it then checks to see if the camera has the capability to be focused at any point. it then goes in a finds the points at which the canvas were touched and sets the brackets to where the finger touched. it also subtracts an offset. when the points are found it will then try to pass the x and y values to the camera through the focusAtPoint.
next is the CameraButton_shutterKeyHalfPressed which just calls the camera.focus method.
next is the photoCamera_AutoFocusCompleted event which just changes the visibility of the focus brackets to collapsed. if you look in the user interface code you will see that there is a text block that contains [ ]. yes you actually have to set the focus brackets by a text block which i would have never imagined and thats awesome.
next is the photoCamera_initialized this really just sets a couple of properties. first off we set the camera to not have any flash. we set the previewbuffer equal to a bitmap that takes the width and height of camera resolution. we initialize our barcodeReader. This is optional but you can set what type of bar codes that your barcode reader accepts. so for mines i set the UPC-A and UPC-E. i then passed that into the barcodeReader object. I also set the try harder option to true. which they say makes it work harder to try and figure out the barcode. and last but not least hook up the event hanler for resultfound.
next is the barcodeReader_Resultfound. this just checks if the text scanned is equal to the text in the barcodeData textbox. if it is different then do a quick vibration and change the text in the textbox, then navigate to the my search page.
lastly the scanForBarcode method which stores the arb values into the previewbuffer pixels, then we call invalidate which redraws the entire bitmap or requests to draw. then call the method for the barcodereader to decode the previewbuffer
And thats everything. well theres a section where you navigate to the search page. when navigating i pass through the upc number and put it into the search field behind the scenes and you end up with the result if it is found.
Heres the video walk through for the Edmunds Application i am building. User interface isnt finished so its not too fancy right now
Heres a look at the user interface code for my app. It starts off with searching. It starts by choosing the car Make, then when you choose a Make it loads and the models to choose from and so on with the year and style. When you hit the Search button you get taken to a new page which shows the cars photos and some details about engine and the gas mileage estimates.
the user interface was done with a pivot which contains some listpickers and listboxes. all UI code was written not made in Blend.
CHECK OUT THE VIDEO OF THE APP WALK THROUGH BEING POSTED SOON
jav-rabbit
Walmart Viewer Application for windows phone
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/walmart-viewer/929293f9-0fe7-44de-9092-43991b99a461 #windowsPhone #windowsPhone8 #switchToLumia #walmart #nokia get your FREE Walmart Viewer app for Windows Phone 8
***New Update is coming by the end of the week with a totally new look and new features. so download this now to get the update later this week!!!
Walmart Viewer Application for windows phone
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/walmart-viewer/929293f9-0fe7-44de-9092-43991b99a461 #windowsPhone #windowsPhone8 #switchToLumia #walmart #nokia get your FREE Walmart Viewer app for Windows Phone 8
***New Update is coming by the end of the week with a totally new look and new features. so download this now to get the update later this week!!!
FREE Walmart app for windows phone
http://t.co/da1Dt7t2Rr #windowsPhone #windowsPhone8 #switchToLumia #walmart #nokia get your FREE Walmart Viewer app for Windows Phone 8
FREE WALMART APP FOR WINDOWS PHONE *
http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=929293f9-0fe7-44de-9092-43991b99a461
Get this smooth and simple, yet efficient Walmart application for your windows phone 8 device now! its FREE why not give it a go?
just an update on how the Walmart Viewer application is going. I am about to have released my 2nd or 3rd update for the application. These updates fixed some crashing issues and added the ability to use wifi in the application which should have been there from the start. Then I also changed to some new advertisement in my app. this advertising is a cross promotional thing. so for every 10 apps displayed in my application I get 8 ads shown in other peoples applicaton. this will help with getting my application known.
Lets get to the pictures tho. the first pictures is of the requests sent from my application. you can see that the numbers are gradually increasing everyday which could predict my app becoming more popular and therefore more people are using it. This is a great feeling. I would show the download numbers but the damn marketplace is having problems and I haven't received any download updates in 4 going on 5 days.
The second picture shows my app listed as #3 on the new and rising list in the lifestyle category. Now that's fucking awesome! excuse a brothers language. I was #7 before but its great to see my app go up on the charts which does show that I have been getting more downloads of the application.
This was just a quick update of how my apps performing. thanks for viewing everyone
Walmart Viewer for Windows Phone 8
hey everyone I just released a walmart viewing app for Windows Phone 8. If you love Walmart why not give it a download. its completely FREE!
you can download it from the link right now.
http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=929293f9-0fe7-44de-9092-43991b99a461
Welp on Tuesday I submitted my app to the market place. When you do that you have to go through this review process where they test your app and all this other stuff before it gets put on the market place for everyone. So I wake up this morning and its passed everything and is now available. So here is the link for the application (windows phone 8 only) but even if you don't have windows phone you should still be able to browse the page (I think). And Cindy says I should do one for windows 8 so maybe I shall do that too. but for now im off on my advertising campaign in different windows phone forums!
http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=929293f9-0fe7-44de-9092-43991b99a461
Here is the next update on the walmart viewer app. Since I have free a lot of free time at school thought it would be a perfect time to post the update. These pictures start by showing off the logo/tile/icon for the application the smaller one which is in the application list, and the larger square which is the home screen icon. For the logo I kept it pretty simple text and colors. plus I don't do graphic design and don't have the money to have Sandra do it. The logo really shows like a preview of what the app is going to look like which is clean and simple with the same light blue to dark blue gradient with that little hint of goldish.
Now the pictures move onto the application itself. If you remember from the last post of the app it was only black and white. It only showed off the lay out of the app and how things were going to be displayed. There are quite a few differences now. Lets just talk about the main obvious change which is going from a black background to this gradient of blue which I borrowed from the blue bar on the walmart website. Next would be those huge yellow and orangish letters that say "walmart viewer" I took the color from walmarts flower type symbol. The letter are white like the main color of the walmart website. You can see in the last photo where I got the inspiration from. Next thing that's different/new is the big ad that runs across the application that says "download now" the ad is supplied from nokia ad exchange and will hopefully serve as an alright way of making money on this free app, its ugly but hey its a possibility of making money. The next new update is in the categories section the words were made larger and given more space in between to reduce the chance of hitting the wrong category. This idea was influence from my gf, when she was using the application she kept clicking the wrong item. I don't know if its because she has short fat fingers or her nails. ha ha! Next difference is in the item detail page the name, price, color, and stock were all spaced out for better readability. And in the Search item section I fixed this word wrapping problem I had but its not shown in any of the pictures.
Now there were some behind the scene changes too the make for better usability and understanding to help first time users learn the app. The app will show a message box for users to read when they do certain actions. for example if the user clicks on an item a box pops up and tells them to slide to the left to see the item details. Another thing that was added was on start up of the application items are loaded right away in the search page. in the old application it was blank and you needed to search something before anything would populate. Also added was when you choose a category then items will be automatically loaded related to the category you chose. so you don't even have to search items if you don't want to. you can just search through the already populated list of items.
That's all for now. Im really just still testing out ads and stuff like that before submitting the app into the marketplace. Oh and a huge shout out to the Walmart development team who responded fast to my questions. See you guys next time! reach me on twitter for any comments or suggestions @javierrabbit
heres the video showing the upgrades from the first app and the new walmart app that I have made
Such a big update on this Walmart viewing app. Since the last post I have completely redone the user interface, and rewrote all my code behind and classes and implemented an MVVM pattern to separate the user interface, code behind, and the objects I guess I can call them. But um looking at the pic you can see the new XAML user interface code which is using a Panorama template. Then you can see some code behind which shows all my event handlers and what each one does. Event handlers like what happens when a button is pressed or a new item was selected in a list. Check out the video in the most recent post that will show the difference between the first walmart application and this newly updated one. Thanks for reading.