How to know if a user made a phonecall in wp8? - call

I prompt a user to start a phone call by calling
phoneCallTask.Show().
That brings him to a windows yes/no notification screen.
I need to know whether the user did choose to make the call or no.
How can i know it?
Thanks.

There is no way to know for certain. The SDK does not expose any APIs that will tell you this.
What you could do instead is track the amount of time between the user leaving the app and returning to see if a call was made.
If it was just a second or two then a call almost certainly wasn't made. Any other conclusion would be subjective though. What if it was engaged? Or went to answer phone? Does this count as making the call?

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How to access information from other sites based on specific parameters provided by a user to my website?

So I am currently working on this project and I am confused on how to tackle this issue I am having.
I am creating this website that will go behind the scenes and input the data the user is providing us with and checking to see availability on various websites. I am confused on how the logistics of this would work. Would it make more sense to use API's rather than create maybe a bot (I don't even know if this would work) or even if there was a way to code it in myself.
A similar platform to what the general idea behind what operations would be used is vaccines.gov where the system will display the availability of vaccines nearby (a value inputted by user is zipcode). I just need to be pushed in a general direction as I am unsure how to approach this.
Thank you!

Does reminder app need database to work? -flutter

I want to make reminders app, and for that I will use FlutterLocalNotification because when I searched I saw that it is working in the background.
My question is should I use database for the reminders or not?
and can I use FlutterLocalNotification with a specific time? I mean let the user to pick the time
I tried flutter_local_notificaitons using it you can send the user local notifications in a specific time even when the app is closed. So I think it's the way to go. There are even some fancy ways to specify time patterns.
If you want try out this project I created it a while back to test the package. You will need to change line 80 in main.dart to use your own time zone.
You will need some local storage otherwise the user data will just not persist when she closes the app. There are many packages for this. Some are lighter then others. It depends on how big your app is so check them out and see what works.

Detecting Printer State Change with Cups Api

Using the Cups c api I am able to see the state of a printer (such as paused, printing, jammed ect.) What I am trying to do now is to listen for, or lock against a change in a printer's state. Ultimately I want a live view of a printers state, but I don't want to have a delay loop spamming cups with printer attribute requests.
I have seen many functions and tags in the source code and documentation that hint towards some kind of event system, but I have been unable to figure out how to utilize it. Any help is welcome, even just pointing me towards the right function.
I used this example in my current implementation to get state information. http://cups-dev.easysw.narkive.com/9RO0OBnZ/how-to-get-printer-status-via-cups-api
It ends up this was a very complex question and involved a lot of work to figure out. The only sane way I found to listen for changes was to use the rss notification system. I would advise against attempting to make your own notification module, I wasted a week of my life trying that (I'm not even sure it is possible anymore). Use the Create-Printer-Subscription with a uri like rss://localhost:8000. You will of course need a listener waiting for the xml data.
I put up an a simple debugging tool I made with java/jna here. Select 2 to set up a subscription, you will need to listen for the data yourself though.

Any recent changes in how contacts identify themselves to the Mirror API?

I'm concerned - when I take a picture, I usually (ie, last week) am able to share the image to my app.
Now, however, only Google + contacts appear as share targets. For example, if I turn off sharing to G+, I get no Share options at all, only a greyed-out Share dialog that says "Visit google.com/myglass to add friends"
However, when I go to that address I clearly see my app and a number of contacts (who aren't in G+) who also usually show up.
Has something changed to cause this behavior? For example, is the code listed in the starter-project no longer sufficient to register a share target for photos?
For example, I could imagine that suddenly the acceptTypes[] parameter was now mandatory. But I'd love to hear someone closer to the API weigh in, if possible.
Thanks!
AKA
I solved this by following Alain's comment's advice.
It's very easy to think that the "Contacts" page you see at https://glass.google.com/myglass is all there is.
But if you want your app to receive shared stuff, you have to go here: https://glass.google.com/myglass/share

What should you do if a required asset fails to load?

My program is in Flex but it doesn't really matter for the question I am asking. OK say I need to load an XML file for the application to work at all. If I capture an IOError while the xml file is loading, what logically should I do with that? The application needs it or the app is useless, so should I just keep re-trying on error, or should I notify the user to try again later? What would you do?
Thanks.
Ask the user what to do - Retry or Fail, with Fail meaning the app will close . If it makes sense, give the user a chance to browse to the resource.
It really depends on the nature of the file. If you know the file will exist at one time, it may make sense to wait for the file's creation (although this seems like a poor man's network model). However, in situations where an application is useless without a resource, I would fail unrecoverably and give meaningful error messages to the user, as well as log some debugging code to a file that the user could later submit for developer debugging.
Like GMail - do both. Notify the user when an error happens or a timeout is hit, and keep trying in the meantime.
Loading is taking longer than expected, retrying - please wait...
Notify the user that the XML is not available, and offer the user the possibility to retry loading the XML, locate another XML or quit the application.
I don't think you should really try to many times that the page has noticeable lag. It really depends on whether the file being accessed is controlled by a third party or not and whether it is usually failing for large chunks of time or just say a second.

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