Windows 10: Ally Bank updates their Windows Phone app as a UWP Windows 10 application

Last couple of months there have been many articles published in regards to many of the premier and large banks killing their Windows Phone application to move and build new features for iOS and Android.

Today we are bringing some positive news for Windows Phone users with one of their long serving banking application Ally Bank has pushed out a new update for its existing Windows Phone application.

The latest update bumps the Windows Phone app to a Universal Windows Application for both Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile. The update also comes with some great new features which now are available for Ally Bank users both on their Windows 10 desktops and Windows 10 Mobile.

Ally Bank already supports most of the banking features like Deposit of checks via the new Ally eCheck Deposit option, transferring money between Ally Bank and accounts with other banks.

The customers also have the option to check their transaction history along with scheduling payments, paying bills and reviewing the payment history. The bank also offers users with option to search nearby ATMs.

Like most other bank, Ally bank also offers its customers investing options by letting them trade in stocks directly from their mobile device. The customers can also view their investments with streaming quotes and can also use charting tools to have a technical analysis of the stocks they have invested in.

The transactions done via online banking are encrypted with secure technology to protect the bank accounts of users from any fraudulent transactions or online fishing. The bank also provide users with security codes which act as an additional layer of protection when logging in from any other desktop which is not recognized by the system.

As reported the latest update to the Ally Bank converts the Windows Phone application to a full UWP app and is available for download on both Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile from the Microsoft Store.

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Just curious if anyone knows if an Ally Bank Mobile App is in progress for Windows 8 devices. This is pretty annoying and the ONLY downfall of the windows phone IMO.

 

[UWP] all UWP application windows are not displayed anymore after a lot of start/kill of any UWP application

Hello,

This issue seems linked to the Windows Anniversary Update (build 10.0.14393,
also reproduced on build 14905.rs_prerelease.160811-1739) and the new UWP lifecycle introduced with it, since this issue was not there before.

The test scenario is simple:

1. start any UWP application (in my example the windows calc.exe, the default Windows 10 calculator application)

2. wait 0.5 second

3. kill the same UWP application

4. repeat the 1-2-3 steps 5000 times

This scenario is basically reproducing an automated test environment.

The expected result is that the tested application will always be displayed correctly.

The actual result is that the tested application is not displayed anymore after a various number of loops (between 200 and 800). It looks like it is running in the background since the process can be seen in the task manager.

When the UWP application window can't be displayed, the scope of the issue is much more important: no UWP content can be displayed anymore (Edge browser or Windows settings, etc).

The way to recover from this is to log out from the user session and log in again.

Here is a python script to reproduce the issue:

Is it a known issue ? Any way to work around this (this is blocking our UWP automated testing environment)?

BR

Jean-Marc