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[michael_chea7]

App Idea/ Rewards Card Management

This is just an idea that I have for an App. I have never developed an application before and will be attending the Windows Phone Garage training and need a good idea, someone mentioned this to me and I wasn't sure how useful it would be.

Basically, the app is for people that have too many rewards cards on their keychains, ie: Best Buy, Local Grocery Store, CVS, Radioshack, cards like that. My idea is to create an app that you can use to take a picture of your card and store the picture in an organized manner, like Alphabetically or by a particular Category say Food or Electronics. Then you would be able to pull up the picture once you are at the store and use it instead of carrying the card around. Thus freeing up the clutter on your key chain for what they are actually meant for Keys!! lol.

The only thing that I am not entirely sure about is how well the laser scanners will work with scanning the phone screen for the barcode. Other thing that I am not sure about is how practical this solution could be, like how many people would use it? I myself do not have many rewards cards but I know there are members of my family that just like to collect them pretty much.

What I am curious about is if this is a good idea and if it is something that people would buy. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

 

[munkeyphyst]

I have seen a plethora complaints about the lack of USB/local sync capability with Outlook. So what I need to know before investing much more time is: Would there be any interest in a "local" Outlook sync application? It would most likely be wireless, but wired may be possible, it would be loaded on the PC just as activesync used to be, and would basically be an third party Activesync replacement. I have done enough of the basic research to say that it is technically possible, now I need to know if there is enough interest to justify taking the time to actually do the development.

There are a lot of people griping abou this lack of functionality. I am sure your app would be received well

 

[jmo]

WP7 app for prepaid

I live in a country slow internet speeds and relatively high data cost. I normally use Wifi and sync manually. I know that I am far from the target market for WP7 but here is my request...

Live Tile to toggle Wifi
Live Tile to toggle data connect and 3G
Live Tile to Sync all email accounts

I don't know what API's are exposed but this should be a simple app. If Live Tiles are too much bother, a simple app that allows the above would be great.

 

[KonAitor]

I live in a country slow internet speeds and relatively high data cost. I normally use Wifi and sync manually. I know that I am far from the target market for WP7 but here is my request...

Live Tile to toggle Wifi
Live Tile to toggle data connect and 3G
Live Tile to Sync all email accounts

I don't know what API's are exposed but this should be a simple app. If Live Tiles are too much bother, a simple app that allows the above would be great.

This should be possible with the 7.1 SDK, have not played around with the new API's though.

 

[hyellow]

Req: App for streaming Live PCTV from tv tuner at home

A few years ago, when wm6.5 was still the one and only smartphone os that matters, there was this little program, wich is called: mytinytv (http://www.mytinytv.com/).
It consists of a server on your computer and a client on your mobile. The program streamed your incoming tv signals from the tuner to your mobile device, this way, you could watch live tv anywhere. Pretty much the same as slingbox, but slingbox will cost a few hundreds, while a tv tuner for the pc costs far more less. Other solutions like Orb, doesn't let me configure the quality settings, while Mytinytv does.

So what's the deal. Basically, we only need to write the client app, as the server software will still send the incoming signal somewhere on the internet.
We just need a WP7 app/client to pick up that signal and we're good to go.

So, is anyone familiar with this? Has anybody used this app in the past?
The website has not much activity anymore, but the files are still there to grab.

We can use the server software to broadcast the signal and write a client app for wp7.

 

[Fullmetal99012]

When I was young I played the **** out of my Gameboy Advance and love replaying those memories with Gameboy Advance emulators. If there is one homebrew app I would like to see for WP7, it would be a GBA emulator.

I would love for someone to start work on one because I have no ability to code once so ever. If you are/start working on one I can help with all graphics as I already have created layouts for the Zune HD Gameboy emulator and I'm not to shabby with photoshop.

This, actually I was, and still am considering taking up this project. I need to work out a few details, Like controls for a fully touch screen phone like my HD7... It would need to be able to use a keyboard as well (HTC Pro 7). Plus I need to see how to emulate using C# and silverlight....

Does anyone know where I should Start?

Camera-App that allows to focus and shoot without the hardware button (it's not easy to hold the phone still while pressing the camera button).

This should be possible with the 7.1 tools... I believe mango opens up the camera API, unless that was NoDo..

 

[killerb255]

CallCalendar port from WM

Request - CallCalendar for WP7

From the following locked thread posted by docraj:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=824869

Basically, it's like CallTrack for Android phones, except it syncs your call log to your Outlook calendar.

 

[tjohnso1]

I have seen a plethora complaints about the lack of USB/local sync capability with Outlook. So what I need to know before investing much more time is: Would there be any interest in a "local" Outlook sync application? It would most likely be wireless, but wired may be possible, it would be loaded on the PC just as activesync used to be, and would basically be an third party Activesync replacement. I have done enough of the basic research to say that it is technically possible, now I need to know if there is enough interest to justify taking the time to actually do the development.

Absolutely yes. I've been a user of windows mobile since way before it was called windows mobile! Bought my first CE device back in the mid nineties. I am completely dependent on syncing data, but not via cloud. I need to sync several times a day, and simply plugging between mtgs is easiest for me.
So yes, an application like this would satisfy lots of people from what i've read on the net.

 

[Titus_Andronicus]

I need an app for searching the kijiji.ca website. There is one for the iPhone, so shouldn't be too hard.

 

[digger1985]

Could anyone port an Android app for Seagate Freeagent + ?
The source is here
https://github.com/questmaster/FATpRemote

It's basically a remote which sends data through TCP port 9999.

Commands are 4 bytes sent to TCP port 9999 of the format

48 12 XX 00

(HEXADECIMAL!)



where XX varies for each command thus:



07: left
06: right
40: up
41: down
1B: back
30: end >>|
51: ff >>
39: home
47: info
1A: menu
59: mute
0E: ok
54: stop
4F: play/pause
38: power
52: rew <<
31: start |<<
33: voldown
32: volup
35: zoomin
08: zoomout

06: right
07: left
08: zoomout
0E: ok
1A: menu
1B: back
30: end >>|
31: start |<<
32: volup
33: voldown
35: zoomin
38: power
39: home
40: up
41: down
47: info
4F: play/pause
51: ff >>
52: rew <<
54: stop
59: mute

Since there is already a source, how hard would it be to port to WP7? I believe c# is similar to java?

 

[Titus_Andronicus]

...The only thing that I am not entirely sure about is how well the laser scanners will work with scanning the phone screen for the barcode. ...

Airports use lazer scanners to scan e-boarding passes off of your phone. Should be do-able.

 

[arkavat]

Screen Timeout App and Connection Manager App

If any developer knows how to do it or knows that it is impossible, please let us know. If it is possible and you would make app for us, I will name my first child after you. I am sure there is enough interest here and in the market for these features for you to get some donations. App or hacks, either would work.

1) Screen Timeout App: Keeps screen alive when charging. This will allow us to enjoy the artist images in Zune while we are charging our phone.

2) Connection Manager App: Gives quick access to WiFi, Bluetooth, etc... In App toggles will be awesome, but even if it provies deep-links to settings, that should work. Should work with all phones and not just phones from particular OEM.

Please feel free to discuss possibility of such Apps. If you are an end user and would like to have such Apps, please post as well. Unless there is enough interest I do not think any developer will step up.

 

[Maric]

Please for the love of our existence please can someone enable an app to be able to sync your apps through Zune automatically? I know if you downloaded through the Zune directly they sync up after performing a hard reset, however most the apps I installed were through my Samsung Focus. This is probably the most time consuming part of installing a fresh install.

 

[dan-htc-touch]

I just want a call blocking app really.

 

[mike21pr]

can we please get a TV Guide app like "TV Listings for Android" ??? I have seen a few similar apps but they are for mostly following a specific show, not showing me all my local listings and cable listings here un Puerto Rico....

 

[PsyCLown89]

I would like an application or something which will allow me to play .avi files and give me support for Xvid/Divx codecs. Also if I could play .mkv files will make life much easier and will be much better, can just copy and watch the HD movies and series I make for my media centre straight off my phone instead of placing them into .mp4 containers.

So basically support for .avi and .mkv files/containers.
As well as Xvid/Divx codec support. The Xvid and .avi is more important than .mkv containers IMO as we have support for .mp4 which is similar to .mkv

 

[smuppy]

I simply want a internet usage app so I can see how much data I am using per month.

Does anyone know if this is possible with the new APIs made available with the release of Mango? I too want this app, very baaaaad. I checked the APIs today but couldnt really find anything useful.

 

[ahlMAR]

a free geocaching app would be pretty nice!

 

[crawler009]

SMS/Missed call reminder

It would be really nice to have a (background) app that reminds every x minutes that you have a missed call, sms, or email.

Are there API to acess that information? If yes, i'm planning to make a app.
Another question. Is it posible to access the led in the HTC (unlocked) phones?

Best regards,
crawler

 

[pmichalke]

Request - CallCalendar for WP7

From the following locked thread posted by docraj:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=824869

Basically, it's like CallTrack for Android phones, except it syncs your call log to your Outlook calendar.

PUSH!!!!! I really need this for my work and would probably pay up to 10$ just for this app on wp7! Does anyone actually know if Mango provides all the needed APIs for an app like this?