Dev A short notification, moar numbers from the inside The last time I wrote about my (still) last app "a short notification" was on the 7th of September. Back then, I was reporting on the download numbers after ASN had
Dev Prompting a Windows Phone 8.1 user for a review While writing MiniReader for Instapaper (the introduction blogpost I wrote), I decided I wanted to display a popup to ask the user to review the app after some time (for instance after starting
Dev A short notification, history and longer notifications Right after the first push of a short notification and the first post about it, I started adding new features. The two highlights of this new version are a history mechanism and longer-shorter
Dev Localization on WP8.1 As far as I understood - and for whatever reason MSDN is quite silent about this - in the switch between WP8 and WP8.1, the localization API of Windows RT changed. After
WP8 WP8 UX - Keyboard Trick, Caps Rotation User experience comes down to the tinyest things sometimes... In most WP8 applications, when you select a word and hit the "shift" key, the word - "blog" in our