I need to customize the live tiles in windows phone 8. I need to edit its template according to my requirement. I need to put image and text on live tile according to my requirement. But I am not getting how I can do it?
Microsoft gives no room for customization in windows phone live tile. We need to use one of 3 provided templates: Flip Tile Template, Cycle Tile Template, or Iconic Tile Template. Each of them provides space where we can put image and text, but we can't alter the layout.
Possible, but not very convenient workaround is to put all customization in the image. Then you can use that image as background image for Flip Tile. If you don't provide anything for backside of the Tile, it won't flip, hence showing only your customized image.
Reference : http://developer.nokia.com/community/wiki/Live_Tile_Templates_in_Windows_Phone_8
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Currently I'm trying to create a Live Tile where it pulls data from a JSON link, run some code to filter it and spits out the data on the FRONT side of the tile.
From Windows Phone 8's Flip Tile specification, only the back side of the tile can have text. I'd like to enable it for the front side so the user doesn't have to wait for the tile to flip. From what I understand, this can be achieved by converting my text to an image, and then set it as a BackgroundImage for my tile.
Windows Phone 7 had a tool called Ree7 which enables that, but I'd like to enable it for Windows Phone 8, medium and large tiles.
Additionally, it would be great if my tiles don't flip and remain on its front side.
Having extra images such as app icon on the tile would be an additional plus.
Can someone please point me to the right direction to proceed here? Using a pre-built tool (like a Ree7 for WP8) seems like the best way here.
see if this tool could be useful.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shintak/archive/2013/01/01/10418997.aspx
he hasn't provided the source, but you could possibly contact the blogger to get it.
http://www.telerik.com/products/windows-phone/overview/all-controls/livetilehelper.aspx
I believe I found the answer to my question. However, if there are better, free alternatives that do not distort the text too much (such as Lawrence Gripper's old BBC News Mobile app, where text is extremely legible with little distortion), please do share it here.
Thanks!
i have recently started to develop apps for Windows Phone 8 after Windows Phone 7, the problem is with creating tiles, i am trying to use the simplest type (iconic tiles) just like we used to do in Windows Phone 7 opened the images from the assets and edited them from there, and modified the app manifest to select the images, but the tile is still showing white blank, i have searched deeply but there does not seem to be any tutorial about this
Make sure you are setting your images to Build Type of Content and that they are actually being included in your xap.
For a complete discussion about Tiles start: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/hh202948(v=vs.105).aspx
Iconic Tiles cannot be colored. They are monochromatic. That is why you got blank white image. The only shape on transparent background is used by Windows Phone to show such kind of tiles.
To get colored Tile you have to use Flip Template for it.
I want to place some tiles in my Homepage, they are categories, user could click any of them to navigate to the proper page, and if user click the tile longer, he could pin the tile as secondary tile to the phone page. The number of tiles may changed in the future, so I don't want to put fix number of rectangles in the xaml, anybody can help?
You can use the HubTile control in the free WP Toolkit. A guide can be found here: Windows Phone HubTile in depth
I use these in some apps and they are great. They do not give you the functionality to pin to the Start screen though. But you should be able to simply use the same data to create a hub tile and a Start screen secondary tile at the same time.
If you are willing to pay some bucks you could try the TreeMap control which is inside the Syncfusion Essential Fusion for Windows Phone.
I am developing an app which shows image and I want to provide important relevant information on the same image. Essentially, I want to create a flipping tile inside an app and later pin it to the start. Is it possible to have one?
Radcontrols Hubtile or Coding4Fun toolkit Hubtile is what you are looking for.
About creating secondary tiles on windows phone check this article.
In windows 8 when we build our application and check it in simulator then tiles are created in default shape of square , I want to have a rectangle tile for my application like the "video" tile on the start page . Is there a way i can manage this
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It just takes a few steps to do this:
Add a 310x150 pixel image to your project
Open your app's "Package.appxmanifest"
In the "Tile" section, set the "Wide logo" to point that image
The app will then use the wide tile by default when first installed, but keep in mind that the user can ultimately decide whether the wide or square tile is shown. (You can't control the choice programmatically - except I suppose by not offering a wide tile at all.)
For more, see:
Quickstart: Creating a default tile using the Microsoft Visual Studio manifest editor
Choosing your app images
DefaultTile