Give the user access to more than 4-5 Action Center buttons by having it be a horizontal scrolling panel.

[DrewNaylor]

I really don't like Windows 10 Mobile's dropdown, so having the rest of the buttons that aren't at the top of the list and also aren't completely hidden be on a horizontally-scrolling panel is a good solution to showing more than the max amount in WP8.1 (almost put "8.x" and forgot that Action Center was added in 8.1, which shows how important it was).

The buttons that appear at the top of the Action Center will be configurable, and I think one way to do that will be to have a vertical list the user can click and drag items up or down on, kinda like the Windows 10 one but only vertical.

Note: This is similar to how Ubuntu Touch/UBPorts has the notification area action tabs in that the tabs scroll horizontally. Those aren't buttons, though.

[TheMobilizer]

Posting this here since this is related to the action center :

• Another idea to borrow from Windows 10 Mobile would be to take the user to the settings page when a button is long pressed in the action center. For example , long pressing the bluetooth action center button would open bluetooth settings.
• In windows phone 8.x , if a notification was cleared , it would clear all notifications from that source . For example , If there are three text messages and you clear one of them from notifications center by swiping right on that particular message , all text message notifications would be cleared. This should not happen . Instead , only the notification which the user intended to clear should be cleared and not all the notifications from the source.
  What do you think ?
  PS: Do you have some other way to get in touch ? Because asking quick , dumb questions about c# seems inappropriate here (if you are okay with answering those).

[DrewNaylor]

Didn't know 8.1 lacked the Settings long-press thing, that'll be another 10 feature to add. Kinda forgot about dismissing one notification getting rid of all of them from the app, so restricting it to clearing only the specific one will also be implemented even though that's again a 10 feature.

If you have a Twitter account, you can message me at DrewTNaylor. I'll have to follow you first since my direct messages are limited to people I'm following, though.

[TheMobilizer]

Unfortunately, I don't have twitter. But no worries I'll figure it out myself ( I'm just lazy and should probably just google better :-) ).

[DrewNaylor]

Ah, that's alright. There's a lot of good info out there on places like MSDN/Microsoft Docs, and Avalonia itself has a documentation site now (the old one seems to be down, which messes with search results so the best way to get to it is by going to their website and clicking "documentation" at the top). Sometimes Avalonia's source code for things like styles for their Fluent theme can be really helpful, too. That's where I found out about the properties textboxes use to change the border since their IntelliSense stuff isn't the best yet.