Universal Windows Platform About Page

Create an awesome About Page for your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app in just a few minutes.

Inspired by the android about page created by medyo

This library allows to generate beautiful About Pages for your UWP app with less effort, it's fully customizable and supports custom actions.

Code Behind

 var aboutControl = new AboutControl()
  .SetImage("ms-appx:///Assets/goedware_logo.jpg", 100)
  .SetDescription("Write here something about your app and/or company")
  .AddVersion()
  .AddEmail("test@mail.com", "My app support")
  .AddWebsite("http://www.goedware.com")
  .AddWindowsStore("familyName")
  .AddTwitter("GoedWare")
  .AddFacebook("GoedWare")
  .AddGitHub("GoedWare")
  .AddInstagram("GoedWare")
  .AddYouTube("UCvJiYiBUbw4tmpRSZT2r1Hw")
  .AddPlayStore("com.whatsapp");

XAML

<about:AboutControl
   ImageSource="Assets/goedware_logo.jpg" 
   ImageHorizontalAlignment="Center"
   ImageVerticalAlignment="Center"
   ImageHeight="100"
   ImageWidth="100" 
   ImageStretch="Uniform"
   Description="This is a sample text description"
   DescriptionAlignment="Center">
   <about:AboutControl.Items>
    <items:VersionItem/>
    <items:EmailItem Subject="Windows Store app"
     AddDeviceAndDebugInformation="True"
     Value="info@windows.com"/>
    <items:WebsiteItem Value="http://www.goedware.com"/>
    <items:WindowsStoreItem/>
    <items:TwitterItem Value="GoedWare"/>
    <items:InstagramItem Value="GoedWare"/>
    <items:YouTubeItem Value="UCvJiYiBUbw4tmpRSZT2r1Hw"/>
    <items:FacebookItem Value="GoedWare"/>
    <items:GitHubItem Value="GoedWare"/>
    <items:PlayStoreItem Value="com.whatsapp"/>
   </about:AboutControl.Items>
</about:AboutControl>

Setup

Grab the latest version from NuGet

PM Install-Package GoedWare.Controls.About

Usage

1. Add Description

SetDescription(string)

<about:AboutControl
   Description="This is a sample text description"
   DescriptionAlignment="Center">
</about:AboutControl>

2. Add Image

SetImage(string)
SetImage(Stream)

<about:AboutControl
   ImageSource="Assets/goedware_logo.jpg" 
   ImageHorizontalAlignment="Center"
   ImageVerticalAlignment="Center"
   ImageHeight="100"
   ImageWidth="100" 
   ImageStretch="Uniform"
</about:AboutControl>

3. Add predefined Social network

The library has already some predefined social networks like :

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram
• GitHub
• Windows Store
• Youtube
• PlayStore

AddFacebook(string account)
AddTwitter(string account)
AddYoutube(string channel)
AddPlayStore(string packageName)
AddInstagram(string account)
AddGitHub(string account)
AddWindowsStore(string familyName)

<about:AboutControl>
   <about:AboutControl.Items>
    <items:WindowsStoreItem/>
    <items:TwitterItem Value="GoedWare"/>
    <items:InstagramItem Value="GoedWare"/>
    <items:YouTubeItem Value="UCvJiYiBUbw4tmpRSZT2r1Hw"/>
    <items:FacebookItem Value="GoedWare"/>
    <items:GitHubItem Value="GoedWare"/>
    <items:PlayStoreItem Value="com.whatsapp"/>
   </about:AboutControl.Items>
</about:AboutControl>

4. Add App Package Version

Format: Version Major.Minor.Build

Example: Version 1.2.6

AddVersion()

<about:AboutControl>
   <about:AboutControl.Items>
    <items:VersionItem/>
   </about:AboutControl.Items>
</about:AboutControl>

5. Add Website

Browse to specified url

AddWebsite(string url)

<about:AboutControl>
   <about:AboutControl.Items>
    <items:WebsiteItem Value="http://www.goedware.com"/>
   </about:AboutControl.Items>
</about:AboutControl>

6. Add E-mail

Open mail app to send mail to specified address and optional include device and debug information to message body

AddEmail(string address, string subject, bool addDeviceAndDebugInformation)

<about:AboutControl>
   <about:AboutControl.Items>
    <items:EmailItem Subject="Windows Store app"
     AddDeviceAndDebugInformation="True"
     Value="info@windows.com"/>
   </about:AboutControl.Items>
</about:AboutControl>

7. Add Custom Item

var customItem = new AboutItem()
{
  Title = "Custom about item",
  Foreground = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.BlueViolet),
  Value = "This is a custom about item",
  Icon = new SymbolIcon(Symbol.World),
  Action = async aboutItem =>
  {
    var dialog = new MessageDialog(aboutItem.Value);
    await dialog.ShowAsync();
  }
};

aboutControl.AddItem(customItem);

<about:AboutControl>
   <about:AboutControl.Items>
    <items:AboutItem Title="Custom about item"
      Value="This is a custom about item">
     <items:AboutItem.Icon>
      <SymbolIcon Symbol="World"/>
     </items:AboutItem.Icon>
    </items:AboutItem>
   </about:AboutControl.Items>
</about:AboutControl>

8. Available attributes for AboutItem Class

| Function | Description | | ------------- |:-------------:| -----:| | string Title | Set title of the item| | Brush Foreground | Set foreground color of the icon| | IconElement Icon | Set icon of the item| | string Data | Set data for path icon of the item| | string Value | Set Item value like Facebook ID| | Action Action | Set the action of the item that should be invoked on selection|

Choose Data if you have a vector path and use Icon if you want to use a SymbolIcon, PathIcon, BitmapIcon or FontIcon.

9. Customization

Customize the about items to your own style by overriding the default templates & styles:

• AboutItemTemplate: Override to change the default design templatee of the about items
• AboutItemContainerStyle: Override to change the default container style of the about items

Translations

The library does supports the following languages :

• English (default)
• Dutch (by goedware)
• German (by goedware)
• French (by goedware)
• Italian (by goedware)
• Spanish (by goedware)

Please make a Pull request to add a new language.

Sample Project

sample

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 C. Goedegebuure

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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SOFTWARE.