CODEWITHSUNDEEP
uwpwin-universal-app
Briefkasten
Briefkasten

Reputation: 1994

bring uwp app in foreground

I found posts about how to detect if the app runs in foreground. Is it possible to bring my UWP app to the foreground (when it runs in the background) somehow? Maybe it's possible with a background task?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1683

Answers (1)

der_michael
der_michael

Reputation: 3381

This is how I got it to work for UWP running on Windows 10:

  1. In your manifest create a protocol declaration (insert Name and Display name meaningful to your app)

    As explained here: https://marcominerva.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/make-an-app-respond-to-url-requests-using-protocol-declaration/

Start creating a new Windows Store app. For our purpose, a Blank App is enough. Now, we need to open the Package.appxmanifest file, go to Declarations tab and add Protocol from the Available Declarations list. Then, we specify the URI schema we want to handle in the Name property:

  1. In App settings for the protocol change the Desired view to Use Half

  2. Use the Launcher to call your registered protocol whenever your app should come to the foreground

In the example below replace yourprotocolhere with the protocol you registered for your app.

await Windows.System.Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri("yourprotocolhere://"));

Upvotes: 3

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