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#1 Edited By TheFaxman

@TWIXMIX: I got this to work by using a sort specifier of "-publish_date". The - seems to indicate a descending sort order

13 years ago

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@Nagare: No promises on open-source vs not, but I wouldn't rule it out either. It's a bit more complicated than usual because I work for Microsoft so I have additional restrictions on anything I place in the marketplace. If you decide to play around w/ developing and have some questions feel free to drop me a line and I'll offer what help I can.

The screenshots are a bit dated - I've done some work trying to get the app to match whatever theme settings are set. This still needs a bit more work but things like link colors will definitely use the system accent color. I'll try to drop some updated screenshots & maybe a video this weekend as they better show off the work in progress.

13 years ago

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#3 Edited By TheFaxman

@TWIXMIX: The emulator has some known limitations with file formats. In this case, it won't play h264 / mp4 but the actual devices will. This is all documented in MSDN somewhere, but it's still hard to keep straight.

After spending a few months developing things, I can say you're MUCH better off using a real device to test & debug as the emulator isn't a perfect match of the device, especially when it comes to performance. I've had a few opportunities to test my app on real hardware and each time it found things that didn't manifest at all with the emulator.

That's part of the reason there hasn't been much updates on the GB app - I more or less have it finished but am not willing to submit it to the marketplace until I have a few weeks of constant usage on a device so I can make sure there's no show-stopper bugs left.

13 years ago

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#4 Edited By TheFaxman

@mosdl: The video & audio playback goes through the built-in Zune media player on the phone, so it should offer resume similar to how it would work if you loaded it directly on the phone and show up in your history. I'm still testing all the details as I have limited time with real hardware and the emulator doesn't have the full Zune client in it.

13 years ago

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#5 Edited By TheFaxman

@harris: Good point. I originally posted this in the API forum to get a quick feel for things. I'll announce something in general soon - I'm holding off a bit as I'm about to be feature complete and once that's done I'll be able to post some videos of it in action, hopefully on a actual phone.

@FunExplosions: Most likely no forums in v1 of the app - they don't expose an API for it and I want to see if it would overlap with the mobile version of the site Whiskey is preparing. I don't really want to compete with them in any way. That being said I'll keep this in the back of my mind so I can get a feel for what kind of effort it would take to integrate for an update to v1.

13 years ago

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#6 Edited By TheFaxman

I've been working on a GB app for Windows Phone 7 for a few weeks now and wanted to throw out some work in progress to try to gauge interest and lock down features. I'm thinking that v1 will have feature parity with the iPhone app, plus some direct video integration into the Zune player built into the phone and support for browsing the DB without starting from a search. If anyone has any suggestions for features, I'd love to hear them.

I've also included offline caching so that downloaded data is stored to the phone to viewing when you don't have network access. This should allow me to display the entire list of items in the app rather than the 25 at a time approach the iPhone version works, but this is still a work in progress.

I'm trying to get this finished so it will be available in the marketplace when the phones launch, but that's 100% dependent on how much time I get to test on real hardware before then.

13 years ago

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