Application

On the Application tab, you can set the app’s name and description, default language, its minimum width (PC only), whether to prevent installation to SD cards (phone only), and notification settings (if your app supports them). Notifications are covered in Chapter 24, “Thinking Outside the App: Live Tiles, Notifications, and the Lock Screen.” You can even restrict the preferred orientations of your app if you’d rather not have it automatically rotate to all four of them:

Landscape (horizontal)

Landscape-flipped (horizontal but upside down)

Portrait (vertical, with the bottom of the screen on the left)

Portrait-flipped (vertical, with the bottom of the screen on the right)

Disabling the flipped orientations would be an odd ...

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