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[mase123987]

imgur: the simple image sharer

Well now system tiles updated and added this just now (what timing!), and it works *exactly like I said it would*; it loads and exits so fast you never see the app. The homescreen just does a pretty flip.

That puts an end to the pointless bickering I hope, let's move on to other parts of my list: anyone have any app that uses Bluetooth? There's a serious lack of apps taking advantage of Bluetooth in WP. I know of three total.

Piece of advice: Dont get so defensive with people who want to help, no matter what you think of the answer.

I just checked out the app you mentioned. It does work for songs played through the built in media player, aka xbox music. It does not work with any other app like Pandora or Nokia Music. The controls you get from pressing the volume key work everywhere. Just so everyone knows.

If you like it, cool. Glad it works for you. I personally dont like the flip animation in this case.

As far as Bluetooth goes, are you looking for a specific use or just anything you can find for fun?

 

[link68759]

Piece of advice: Dont get so defensive with people who want to help, no matter what you think of the answer.

I just checked out the app you mentioned. It does work for songs played through the built in media player, aka xbox music. It does not work with any other app like Pandora or Nokia Music. The controls you get from pressing the volume key work everywhere. Just so everyone knows.

If you like it, cool. Glad it works for you. I personally dont like the flip animation in this case.

As far as Bluetooth goes, are you looking for a specific use or just anything you can find for fun?

Re: defensive. You've been nice. Others I didn't perceive as wanting to help. Plus, the perpetual doubting of something that was pretty clear to me (and people not believing me nor trying out the examples I kept citing) made me really frustrated. Sorry. I envisioned a thread of sharing apps, not doubt and misunderstanding.
Re: music. I said in a previous post "any app can control the playback of any other app so long as the source is the system music library". I don't know how much clearer I can be in regard to that.

Bluetooth: just for fun. I like exploring systems to see the limits of the functionality (which is partially why I know WP well enough to know what can be done- I'm pretty intimately familiar with how things are done in abstract, and the limitations). I'm a power user with programming experience, it's what I do. Bluetooth on WP is still something of an unknown to me- it seems like there's no simple API which is why apps supporting it are few and far between- working with Bluetooth COM must not be that fun. But if indeed it is just the COM devs have access to, it should be plenty powerful and capable. I just want to play with some apps to further my understanding.

 

[mase123987]

Re: defensive. You've been nice. Others I didn't perceive as wanting to help. Plus, the perpetual doubting of something that was pretty clear to me (and people not believing me nor trying out the examples I kept citing) made me really frustrated. Sorry. I envisioned a thread of sharing apps, not doubt and misunderstanding.

Re: music. I said in a previous post "any app can control the playback of any other app so long as the source is the system music library". I don't know how much clearer I can be in regard to that.

Bluetooth: just for fun. I like exploring systems to see the limits of the functionality (which is partially why I know WP well enough to know what can be done- I'm pretty intimately familiar with how things are done in abstract, and the limitations). I'm a power user with programming experience, it's what I do. Bluetooth on WP is still something of an unknown to me- it seems like there's no simple API which is why apps supporting it are few and far between- working with Bluetooth COM must not be that fun. But if indeed it is just the COM devs have access to, it should be plenty powerful and capable. I just want to play with some apps to further my understanding.

Big reason for all of this is that you werent clear in your OP. Your wording (based on my and others responses) indicated you wanted a widget like performance out of a tile. Also, you didnt mention "system music library" until a few posts into the thread which is why I missed it.

Anyways, 4.0 Bluetooth support is just now coming to WP. You should start seeing apps taking advantage of the "low energy" mode I think it is called. I imagine that means more support from things like health monitors.

 

[link68759]

I didn't describe *how* it would work in my first post, true, I just described what the end result I desired was. I think it's silly that in the absence of detailed information, y'all jumped to the conclusion that I wanted the end result done in a specific way that can't be done, instead of a way that can be done. And it didn't even transition that smoothly! We went from can't do it, well you might be able to do that but it can't control music, well you can control music but it'd be too slow, well that example shows it might not be too slow but there's a bit more to it... then I ended up finding the damn app.

Is this forum really so riddled with android users that I can't be given a benefit of the doubt?

 

[eric12341]

Well this thread is a mess, in the trash it goes.