[UWP]Photos and Albums Windows 10

Question

Hi to everyone!
I am working on UWP project for Windows 10.
Is there any methods to get photo albums entity from the "Photos" app?
It is easy to get photos from KnownFolders, but how to get albums. "Photos" app can easily create albums with different photos from different KnownFolders.
How to get albums?
Thanks to everyone for any help.

Answer 1

Hello Ruslan Grashyn,

I've checked the image class and it does not contain the album property. So I checked the Photo app. It seems the album is created based on the app itself. Looks like it is defined by photo app. If you want to do the same on your app you may need to define it yourself. For example, define your own property.

Best regards,

Barry

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Answer 2

Hi Barry.
Thank you for your reply.
But the main point of my app is working with Photos app content.
I should be able to create my albums and Photos app should identify it like it was created by Photos app.
Or vise versa... But it seems to be unreal. Maybe we can sync new albums to this app via Live ID API?

Answer 3

@Ruslan Grashyn,

I'm not familiar with this SDK, not so sure whether you can use it in UWP app. But I can see the following reference which is for desktop app:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh243648.aspx

Maybe in UWP we can use HttpClient to request some data back to our application. I think you can give it a try.

Best regards,

Barry

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