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This forum focuses on the developer platform (APIs, runtimes, and controls) that you use to build great app experiences for Windows Phone. Additional WPDev forums are available using the links along the right of the page. Consumer features suggestions should be submitted to the Windows Phone Suggestion Box site (http://windowsphone.uservoice.com/).
Suggestions provided via the WPDev UserVoice forum will be reviewed and read by the Windows Phone developer platform team, providing feedback to help with planning ideas and to better understand how developers are using the development platform, and all suggestions will be considered.
Two important notes about this site: (a) List items (and item rankings) represent community interest in features, and does not represent an actual priority list for the product team; and (b) Suggestions made using this forum will be moderated if they do not actually represent a feature request.
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Provide low-level NFC API for NDEF formatting and (un)locking tags
Currently Windows Phone 8 supports only NDEF formatted NFC tags. It's not possible to NDEF format blank tags, lock or unlock existing tags.
I bought once pack of NFC tags on eBay, but they were not NDEF formatted, so I had to find a way how to format them. I found on Twitter a guy with NFC equipped Android phone and he formatted these tags for me. Windows Phones should be able to do this as well.406 votes -
API for change and delete calendar appointments
It is great that you now can write to the calendar database but there is not any API for change or delete an appointment?
1,006 votes -
Bluetooth find devices in range
It would be really a good idea if we could use the FindAllPeersAsync method( or something similar) to get a list of all discoverable devices within wireless range.
93 votes -
Bluetooth 4/ Bluetooth Low Energy API support.
Please add support for Bluetooth Low Energy and Bluetooth 4. This will allow the development of applications that can support existing standard accessories and solutions across platforms. iOS and Android supports BLE. The WP8 hardware supports Bluetooth 4, but the software on WP8 does not allow the use of BLE.
512 votes -
Make payouts every month!
Please make payouts for apps and in-app products every month!
For now, we have to wait at least 4 months after we get $200 of revenue from our apps. It's a shame! There's no benefit of developing for Windows Phone at all, it's better to develop for iOS, Android and even BlackBerry first, and then, maybe, some time, for Windows Phone.
You should remove these idiotic limits and make payouts for developers every month, not depending on what revenue did they get from their apps! Or if you don't want to or cannot (don't believe though), then you should not…
30 votes -
In applications shared in Kid's Corner, allow all tasks in the application to function
It is up to the parents what apps they decide to share from the Main Phone to Kids Corner, regardless of the capabilities of the app. Currently if you want to use a task that is regularly blocked in Kid's Corner, like Phone Call Task - you are displayed a message that indicates that you are not able to use that functionality. My use case, as a parent, is that I really don’t want to give the kids a full functioning smart phone, I don’t want them dialing random people, I'd like to keep them in Kid's Corner. I’d like…
14 votes -
Vibrate when typing
An option to choose between vibrate on keypress or sound on keypress
I love to type with vibrating keypress84 votes -
offline voice recognition
Android supports text-to-speech and vice versa without online connectivity. This is great for dictation. Please add this feature to Windows Phone.
10 votes -
allow custom default lock screen background.
In http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj206968%28v=vs.105%29.aspx , default lock screen can't change.
plz allow change in xml, thx.
BTW: Like bing app background, it can change.22 votes -
24 votes
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Statistics for the App Developers / views
It would be cool if the developers could see how many times their App is viewed. For example, my app is viewed 1000 times, but only downloaded 1 time. If this is so, i can maybe change the story and the images so people would understand my App better.
5 votes -
Fix Bing Maps control for slow connection
When there's only a slow network connection available, the Bing Maps control freezes when the user hits the hardware back button. This delay can take up to 30 seconds after which it can even happen that the app is terminated by the OS.
The bug has already been documented in multiple forum threads:
Thread 1
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/wpdevelop/thread/03acca68-41f8-4cc6-b1a3-6a09463125bbThread 2
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpdevelop/thread/7ab6a447-8b0a-431e-993e-a38bd67509da/13 votes -
How many users are using which version of my app?
I have released several versions of my app throughout its life cycle. Knowing how many users are using which version of my app would be great.
Something like: %10 is using version 1.0.0.0, %20 is using version 1.1.0.0, %70 is using version 1.1.1.0 etc. on my dashboard.
4 votes -
36 hours max for app certification :)
Making app certification faster.
4 votes -
I want to use GPL code base and my ubuntu infrastructure for development
Our company has no windows computers and all development is based on GPL'ed or other source available code base. Now it seems impossible to do anything with windows phone?
7 votes -
Access to sub-calendar of account to recover Name and color
Currently we have only access to the name and the type of an account.
If a user has defined sub calendar, we are not able to recover the name and the color of the sub-calendar.
This prevent us from creating a good display of appointment. We are not able to distinguish appointment from the different sub calendar.
For one account, we can only defined one color for ALL sub-calendar202 votes -
graph
Create an graph control.
Why not creat an native powerfull graph control to WP ? Actually we have to look for third parts control...4 votes -
xna 5
We expect xna 5 for all platforms, with better 3 d and multimedia content
15 votes -
Deploy app to locked device
Just a small issue: When I work on my WP app the phone often times out and locks itself. When I hit the Play button, more often than not, I get the error message that I must first turn on and unlock my phone.
The phone in question is not password protected and has a connection with my PC already (I can browse the phone with Explorer).
It'd be great if Visual Studio automatically turned on & unlocked the phone upon deployment - if needed.
3 votes -
WP8 must support Dual-Sim support.
Business man uses two phones for their works and private.
Nowadays, there is a lots of Dual-Sim supported phones. Android support dual-sim architecture on their OS level. But WP8 doesn't.
23 votes
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