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[APP] [HELP] Advice on writing a touch friendly UI

I am currently writing an application for my WM6.1 device (HTC TouchHD), and wondered if anyone had come across a site, or if someone could point me in the right direction for finding a nice way of writing 'finger friendly' applications. By finger friendly, i mean being able to scroll with my fingers and so on. Or if there are any open source applications that I can use as a reference?
I don't particularly want to say what application I'm writing just in case it falls to pieces, but rest assured once it's written it will be put up on here!
Thanks,
evorgevol

I have just found this page which does me for scrolling parts of my application. The main thing I'm having issues with is that I want the main menu interface to resemble windows 7 media center, see here for a video of what effect I'm trying to achieve.
I know it's quite complicated, and I'm not the best programmer in the world, but hopefully I should be able to do it??
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks,
evorgevol

If I understand, you're trying to create an UI with a scrolling list useable with fingers.
Each item in the list, once selected, let appears different choices about this item (IE : a "Appointment" item in the list, when you select it, you have the next appointment displayed....). It that right ?
Doesn't it look like the new WM6.5 today plugin ? If that's you're idea, I'm 100% on your side to develop a today plugin looking like these menus (WM6.5 / WM7 MC) !
(In fact, I'm already searching if somebody could develop something like this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3375478)

The one I'm doing is not necessarily for a today page, more for my own application, tho it should be able to be easily used in any other application once the code has been written. I just need a push in the right direction for me to be able to write the code in the first place. I'm also deliberating what format to write my application in, and which ones are available. I will only be supporting from WM6 onwards, tho it could potentially be backwards compatible with 5. Ideal would be silverlight being able to be used, but unfortunately that hasnt been released for mobile yet (it would mean that my application should run on any platform that supports Silverlight).

Try iContact. I suppose the code is open. Also try PockeTwit from google code. Install these apps and if that is the effect you want to achieve, I suggest you grab the code and understand it (that's what I would do if I was in your position)

Alphabetical album navigation?

Hi All, I was wondering whether it is possible to make alphabets visible on right side near the scroll bar in the music library when accessing songs Album wise, which would give easy access to the albums starting with a particular letter. I am really missing this feature as I have to scroll down the entire list of albums in case my album starts with letter 'Z'. (
Is there anybody out there who has got solution for this? may be a reg tweak or something similar. I would be really grateful to them.

This has been brought up before and I think its a must really if you have lots of music.
Unfortunatly it seems to be one of those request that seems to get ignored by developers & HTC alike, I don't know why but its does. I really hope we have better luck with this thread.

there is an additional player for winmo with this funktion. but i would also prefer to have this function in the build in player. that this feature is missing just making me angry while using the player. also a build in search couldnt be that hard. htc devs are more or less brain afk while coding.

DEV Request: Mouse click Coardinate "macro"

Hi, I'm new here. i have just received my Atrix two days ago along with my webtop. i am very into gaming and i would love for this to be possible to develop.
i would like to ask developers to try to create some kind of "program" or whatever it would be called to play on my laptop and play touch screen games and Program Coordinates to a Mouse click for a Specific Key. i play allot of touch screen games and i like RPG style games. the problem i run into is that i cannot press the desired buttons fast enough and or even play some because it is not incorporated into playing with a keyboard.(i know android games will in the future but i mean for the games/apps that are not).
Exrogram a specific coordinate on a game or all games to a specific Key, (Any location on the screen to the "F1" key on my keyboard)... or any key for that matter.
(not tab,shift, esc ect)... just keys that we could use to do specific actions without having to click them with the mouse.
i would love if a developer could look into this and/or create this program allowing us Atrix/Keyboard users to basically "right click" the mouse(or any other way... it does not matter to me) on a coordinate during a game and have the option to set that coordinate to act as if the mouse had clicked that specific location on the screen<without the mouse actually moving to that location at all.
there are many things this could benefit from this. playing and using apps, games at ease and maximizing the usage of this device.
PLEASE HELP US!!!!!!!!! I have talked to a few Aatrix owners and even Emailed Motorola and Android Developers and they think its a great idea and even said that it is capable and would probly be implemented in the future because it would be so useful. the only thing is it is going to take them a long time and i know that it will be Created by an independent developer way before anyone else.
so i ask for your assistance if your a Developer and CHALLENGE you and developers alike to be the first to make this ingenious capability being possible.

really... i was assuming devs would jump on this post... at least state there opinion. so nobody has anything to say about this? i thought it was a great idea. (rather possible or not) i was thinking this would optimize gaming on the webtop Tenfold. (even though games are not smooth on it AT ALL. we would still like to be able to play them easily other then click, click, click and only more clicks other then some games being able to utilize movement keys [arrows or w,a,s,d])

Cool stories bro

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umm... ok...

Some comments about my Dell Venue Pro and Mango

I think would be cool to have a shortcut that go directly to keypad numbers, each time you have to call somebody have to do 2 steps, probably default page "history" would be useful for the last people you called, but no for somebody who in days havent called, it convert in a 3 steps task, i think iphone is easier in this way,
in this section (phone icon) and in yahoo (mail icon) (which i configured in my dell venue pro) using mango version, if you press Magnifier and go Back, the search bar is stuck there and menu doesnt appear until you press "go back" again... i think its a little bug.... because in marketplace works OK.
i think would be cool to custom the background colors of each icon, and personalize something inside them, i dont know, probably time of slideshow, text, what you want they show,etc...
i dont know, there are a lots of ideas for the WP7, in my case, bing scout doesnt work, since im in mexico, it works if i put in the map USA, but no in my city... barcodes or book covers are scanned perfectly and give results about location, costs, etc... GPS works cool too...
after all, mango was big in some aspects, some others are equal, and many others are not considered... definitively this OS need a "jailbreak" to customize and improve all potential from this OS by users, it's a pity, community have to improve or force to make devices better, and not M$ or Apple which only get benefit from it, i suppose iphone would not be sold equal if was not jailbreaked, since many of people i know have unlocked, cracked, and tons of apps obtained from Cydia, probably that's why so many people follow android... which in some time will be the TOP of OS's for phones....i think, some friends are developers and they prefer android, something like linux and windows...
lets see what happen, in my opinion, according about i use from my DVP Mango wasnt a big deal, i have to tell that speed use experience is awesome, it runs like a hell... Bing Scout was great for me but didnt work in Mexico
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[MOD REQUEST] launcher-type "dashboard" via gamepad?

Wow, I haven't been on XDA forums since forever!
Sorry if this is not in the right thread, but I really am not sure where to start for this, but XDA-Developers is an awesome and active community, and you guys usually get the job done. If no one here can help, perhaps someone could point me in the right direction of a website or forum to request for this sort of thing?
Ok, What I am looking for is someone willing to create a program that acts as sort of a launcher/dashboard type thing for windows. This program would basically be launched at the push of a button, and allow for a customizable set of options to appear anywhere within windows, most notably in games, and to be navigated via controller. I am thinking of something similar to the Xbox 360 controller's "guide" button, or PS3's "PS" button. both bring up a menu with options for convenience, and I am surprised to have not found anything like this for PC Gamers. I personally have an HTPC setup where my machine is hooked up to my tv, and having this sort of feature would be a great addon for my setup!
So basically, pressing the "home button" on said controller, would bring up a pop up menu, allowing options such as launching a customized program/utility/etc (perhaps a quick way to launch steam, or even steam big picture mode); being able to shutdown, restart, or even sleep PC; shutting off controller (if its a wireless controller of course); or even an option to reassign controller inputs, similar to how PS3 allows (probably again specifically for wireless controllers); or even allowing quitting of the currently running game/program. Of course these are just some options that could be done, as I'm sure others could think of even better ideas than myself.
Obviously, I know nothing about programming myself, so I have no real skill to do this sort of thing, but if a developer or someone willing were to be able to make something like this, and it work pretty good, id be more than happy to donate to the person. I know PC gamers can be vastly different from one another, so someone else's need (including myself) would probably seem rather silly and pointless to another. Im sure desktop gamers would not find much use for this. But then again I think there are others that would, and I personally think HTPC gamers specifically would appreciate a program like this. Again, I don't know much about programming, but I would assume creating a simple but customizable pop up menu would not be too difficult. I think the hardest part would be finding the function call for the xbox guide button, and whatever commands to call to turn off said controllers. But creating options like custom program launcher, shutting off pc, etc, are probably a lot easier. I personally use PS3 controllers via Bluetooth, but they just emulate a xbox 360 controller on my pc, so I think my only difference would be a command specific to PS3 controllers to turn off said controller.
Anyone else think this is a good idea? I've asked several of my gaming peers whom all seem to agree this would be a cool idea to be able to have. This could technically bring a more console-like experience to PC gaming as well. If no one here is interested, or able to help, I would much appreciate anyone willing to direct me to another website or forum that possibly could help me? Much thanks guys! Let me know what you think.

Any takers? Anyone? Someone at least give me an idea of where else I could go to request something like this? thanks

I don't think there is a way to intercept the guide button being pressed on an Xbox controller easily, but steam big picture somehow does it so it must be possible.
Otherwise it wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to do.

There's a program called "xboxext" by a djpety that utilizes the guide button by popping up a window allowing you to turn off your Xbox controller.
I haven't had any luck in getting a reply from him, but it seems he has managed to figure out how to get the guide button to work. Apparently its an undocumented API call, which is probably the same thing big picture mode in steam uses.
Either way, if someone were able to create this particular utility using another button, it would be a great start. Long term goal would be to allow function via guide button, but it could be any button for the time being.

Hmmm.... Anyone?