Show Bluetooth settings Windows Phone 8.1

Question

Hi,

In Windows Phone 8 Silverlight you could show the Bluetooth settings with this:

private void showBluetoothSettings()
        {
            ConnectionSettingsTask connectionSettingsTask = new ConnectionSettingsTask();
            connectionSettingsTask.ConnectionSettingsType = ConnectionSettingsType.Bluetooth;
            connectionSettingsTask.Show(); 
        }

However, this doesn't work in 8.1 - Is there a way of doing this in Windows Phone 8.1 runtime?

Answer 1

Hi,

The easiest way to launch Bluetooth settings app is by calling LaunchUriAsync(Uri) passing in the URI that use the scheme associated with the Bluetooth app ("ms-settings-bluetooth:")...

Xaml :

<Button Content="Bluetooth Settings" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="135,275,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Tapped="showBluetoothSettings"/>

Code Behind :

async void showBluetoothSettings(object sender, TappedRoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            await Windows.System.Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri("ms-settings-bluetooth:"));
        } 

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Answer 2

Brilliant, thanks Christian! That's just what I was looking for!