Is there a hack yet to run two Metro apps at once on two monitors? I haven't been able to find anything.
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There's a couple live wallpapers out there that I've been looking for. They show up on appbrain, but when I search them on the market they can't be found. I was thinking it's Vibrant specific, but appbrain shows that some of the users are vibrant phones. What gives? Why do some apps just not show up for me, and for other people?
There are several I've had this issue with, but the two in specific I'm looking for are Particle Storm and Giraffe Live Wallpaper Free. They're both free apps in case anyone has a backup of the APK files they could throw my way.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.eymwsoft
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.cct.giraffe
hey guys
I've used a lot of different roms already and i recognized that the market doesnt list all apps since theres a device filter. Is there any way to emulate another device ? For example a desire hd so i have access to all apps? I also used apps to emulate my carrier etc. but that didnt change anything
Are there any apps that you are specifically looking for. I have experienced this same problem with only certain apps being shown because of certain devices. On the other hand, The Android market seams to be removing a lot of apps that are technically Illegal like most of the MP3 music apps. My phone is currently listed as the Sensation and I am still having trouble finding certain apps!!
dige92 said:
hey guys
I've used a lot of different roms already and i recognized that the market doesnt list all apps since theres a device filter. Is there any way to emulate another device ? For example a desire hd so i have access to all apps? I also used apps to emulate my carrier etc. but that didnt change anything
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try to edit the name of ur phone in build.prb maybe it will help
I can't find a way to keep both up at the same time. I can get plenty of desktop apps open on multiple screens but not metro apps.
On a side note:
Is there any way to install those metro apps to another hard drive? Seems kinda dumb to restrict it to your C drive in the ssd world.
Hi,
I couldn't find a [q/a] section to put this but.... I was just wondering if there was any application that could take regular windows 7 or below "legacy" windows program and allow it to be run in a "metro mode". Something like Mozilla's chromeless project but instead executes the program metro style. Is there a way to do this? I got the thought when I saw Google chrome for windows 8 and how it looked just like the desktop version but ran in metro.
joshumax said:
Hi,
I couldn't find a [q/a] section to put this but.... I was just wondering if there was any application that could take regular windows 7 or below "legacy" windows program and allow it to be run in a "metro mode". Something like Mozilla's chromeless project but instead executes the program metro style. Is there a way to do this? I got the thought when I saw Google chrome for windows 8 and how it looked just like the desktop version but ran in metro.
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The only apps that can do that are browsers (And only when they are set as the default browser afaik).
You can use the metro RDP client and RemoteApps in Metro if you want.
"Wrapping" an app like you mention isn't really possible. I don't know how much you know about the way software works, but basically there's a bunch of standard code used for making "windows" that apps run in. These "libraries" are used with almost every app that creates its own window, even ones that don't use the normal Windows chrome at all. These libraries aren't available to TIFKAM (The Interface Formerly Known As Metro) apps, so the legacy apps won't even launch - the OS literally fails to load them. In theory you could create "fake" versions of those libraries which create the desired UI using TIFKAM elements, but the scale of that project would be incredible and I don't even know if it would work.
Then there's the sandbox problem... TIFKAM apps run with extremely limited permissions, much lower than the normal user permissions. This is going to cause problems for pretty much every non-trivial legacy app, which are used to being able to do things like access the Application Data folders and HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry.
If you were feeling adventurous you could make an app that has a non-metro broker that starts the app in the background fullscreened and streams screencaps to a Metro app, and mouseclicks away from a Metro app. I've seen apps (Like this one) that do it in DirectX overlays for games, so it should be theoretically possible for a Metro app to do this.
Note that such an app would never get approved into the MS store, since it would require a non-metro broker to escape Metro's permissions lock.
Hey everyone, I recently discovered an oldie but a goodie: MIT's App Inventor 2. It's an online Android app making tool that's very beginner friendly. It uses drag and drop tools to make apps. The apps you can make with it are fairly limited, but I noticed that the first one I made is compatible with Android version 1.6 and up.
So, theoretically, we could make some really useful apks that would work with the NST. Could be as simple as making an app that can toggle between displaying a couple different web pages (say your to-do list on Any.do and your Google Calendar) to emulate apps that aren't compatible with the nook in their standard form. I might try tinkering with it sometime soon to make a couple simple things, and I'd be curious to see what other people came up with if they do the same.
jptiger said:
Hey everyone, I recently discovered an oldie but a goodie: MIT's App Inventor 2. It's an online Android app making tool that's very beginner friendly. It uses drag and drop tools to make apps. The apps you can make with it are fairly limited, but I noticed that the first one I made is compatible with Android version 1.6 and up.
So, theoretically, we could make some really useful apks that would work with the NST. Could be as simple as making an app that can toggle between displaying a couple different web pages (say your to-do list on Any.do and your Google Calendar) to emulate apps that aren't compatible with the nook in their standard form. I might try tinkering with it sometime soon to make a couple simple things, and I'd be curious to see what other people came up with if they do the same.
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Thanks for this. I've been using an ancient version of Tasker and App Factory to do the three custom apps I've constructed so far. But now that combo will only run on a little KitKat phone I use as an mp3 player. Maybe I can get some other ideas there.