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.
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I want to implement a swipeable card (left and right swipe) in a Windows Phone app. Is there any built in control for making a card and moving it?
If there is no built in control for it then what is the best approach to build a card like below and animate the movement of it?
Note: I am not asking help about detecting and processing of the swipe gesture.
figure showing the card
How about trying Carousel control though its available for Windows 10 for windows phone 8.1 you can refrence these two tutorials
Tutorial 1
Tutorial 2
Carousel control is one good example of what you want to achieve.
Also , I think you can do such a thing by changing some Pivot & PivotItem styles.It could be more customized than Carousel control but you need to take more effort on that.
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
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!
Can we use secondary Live tiles inside the windows phone application, or secondary tiles will always appear on the home screen?
Live Tiles are displayed on the home screen. However you can simulate Live Tiles within your own app by creating your own control or using the HubTile from the Windows Phone Toolkit.
this is something i have figured out.
Live tiles are Shell Controls, means they will only appear at your Shell/HomeScreen(where all tiles are shown) and these cant be treated as UI Controls inside your app. However you can create their replicas as UI/XAML controls very easily and use them inside your application.
Here is the link for sample code on how to create custom tiles as XAML control inside your application
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wpapps/Windows-Phone-XAML-Create-3707b497
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.