I had a simple idea which would require the most used color in an Image. Sounds like something simple, just walk through all the pixels and for each occurring color track the occurrence count. I started with a bit of googling to find if someone else already found a solution. Indeed someone answered a similar question on codeproject.   It’s not compatible...

After we handled Background Transfers in the previous post it took me some time to understand the differences between Background Tasks and the Background Agent. The plain basics We always started with a simple Class Library, we are a little bit more constrained now because we have to add a Windows Runtime Component. Then we add a reference to this...

Another major thing to port is the BackgroundTransfer stuff in the P | Cast app. Although the API is similar there was a lot of code that I needed to port, though a lot of this code could be deleted as well. Starting a BackgroundTransfer Let’s start with the easy part. We want to start a BackgroundTransfer. We are no longer bound to save the files...

Two weeks ago I wrote about the preparation of porting my P | Cast app to Windows Phone 8.1 Universal. After this I started investigating if I would be able to port my database including the data access code. Prepare the Windows Phone project So of course we need to have the SQLite database engine for Windows Phone 8.1. So download this Visual Studio...

As many of you readers probably know, I wrote a Podcast app called P | Cast. I did this in the early days of Windows Phone 8.0 because it lacked an internal podcast player (for most regions), and all the alternatives from the store weren’t working for me at that moment. But then came Windows Phone 8.1, it included a podcast player, again. I thought...

It’s already more than half a year ago when I started working on the Chain app. I tried to make the app as beautiful as possible, while thinking about all the Modern UI design principles. But I’ve had help almost from the beginning. One of the users of my app wanted to help me, make the app even better. Martin Fujak sent me some pictures of improvements...