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KeyRing Pro is out!

Sonntag, November 23rd, 2014

Finally, the extended Pro version of my 2,5 years old KeyRing app for Windows Phone is out! An extensive beta test revealed last-minute problems and leaded to the final release. Hereby I want to thank all the beta testers and especially CapoFantasma97 for the help with the italian translation.
If you’re curious, KeyRing is a password manager for Windows Phone that doesn’t need a data connection. The secret data you enter into KeyRing will not leave your phone. No other app will be able to access the data, that’s guaranteed by the OS.
This safety comes with a price. No backup to the cloud, as other password managers do. No synchronization to other devices. But you’re sure where your passwords are read!
Nevertheless, there are situations, when the data in the phone might get in danger: You reset your phone, or you migrate to a new phone. That’s when you wish you had a backup you could restore.
KeyRing Pro solves this dilemma by allowing to create a backup file into a user-selectable folder on the phone. The file is encrypted and can be copied to a PC via USB and then maybe to another phone.

KeyRing

http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=1d031e0b-6ee9-471b-927e-54c859e5a4b4Get it from Microsoft

KeyRing Pro

http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=c5ddfbf9-315b-4f2b-aaf3-101a42d21848Get it from Microsoft

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How DVLUP helped evolving KeyRing

Freitag, November 7th, 2014

My WindowsPhone app KeyRing (http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=1d031e0b-6ee9-471b-927e-54c859e5a4b4) has a batch of built-in features inspired by DVLUP (http://www.dvlup.com). DVLUP is a developer program by Microsoft for Windows Store and Windows Phone app developers.

Most of the special  features in KeyRing resulted from DVLUP challenges:

* The review reminders: KeyRing ask the user to complete a store review after the fifth app start. The code library to implement this behavior was delivered for a DVLUP challenge.

* The multi-language feature: Most DVLUP challenges require an app available in the US store. As my home market is Germany, that requires a multi-language feature. I analyzed market data and decided to support additional languages like Italian and Spanish. For the convenience of multi-lingual users I implemented a language-switching mechanism, that enables the user to select an app language independent of the phone’s UI language.

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* WP UI standards support: The DVLUP challenges require support of all sizes of live tiles and other WP standard features, so implementing these is mandatory to taking part.

* For a challenge on the late Nokia Developer Wiki I implemented some NFC communication features and won a price in the NFC category.

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* The (ir)regular update challenges inspired me to refresh the user’s app experience with bug fixes or new features quite often.

* Quality challenges: one very inspiring kind of challenge are the Quality challenges, requiring the app the get lots of user reviews with maximum rating. Keeping the user happy is very rewarding in DVLUP!

 

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