Microsoft has changed the tile sizes and margins for Windows 10 Mobile compared to Windows Phone 8.1. Does anyone know the exact measurements for margins (top, left & right, between tiles) edge length of different tile sizes and also the icon sizes within those tiles dependig on the screen resolution?
With Universal Windows 10 Platform Microsoft really helps developers with creating and designing Universal Windows Apps.
I can advise two great sources to answer your question (and not only because below you can find many interesting hints how to design your app).
Official UWP app design guidelines (PDF):
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=626098
Design & UI page:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/design
I think that with these you can create crafted to perfection. :)
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Just getting into Windows Phone 8.1 development.
I quite like it but I am struggling getting accurate development info.
I am working with the Page.BottomAppBar.
I want to use an png image I have created as one of the buttons.
Does this image I created have to be:
A certain size
A certain format
A certain choice of colors i.e. i can use multiple colors and not just black and white
I am looking to create a 'Login' button you see.
thanks
Please, check the official Microsoft guidelines for app bars for Windows store and guidelines for windows phone. Guidelines cover icons, sizes and formats. It's better to follow them in designing visual style of your app.
Hey I am looking to make a windows 8 phone app that has a tile look and feel. I am not interested in making it pined to the start screen. I want an app that has it's own functionality in the tiles. Does anyone know how to make that layout - could someone point me in the right direction?
microsoft.phone.controls.toolkit dll supports a control named hubtile.
"The latest version of Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit provides Windows Phone HubTile control. This control can make your application stylish by adding animated tiles in it. HubTile can consist of an image, title, message or a notification. In this example we will represent HubTile in two different ways, Static HubTile and Dynamic HubTile".
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What are the parallel (equivalent) tiles of FlipTile, IconicTyle, CycleTile from WP8 in Windows 8?
There are a lot in Windows 8 and they seem static.
Thanks!!!
There are no direct parallels with the Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 tile templates.
While Windows Phone uses a "flip" to show multiple pieces of information on a single tile, Windows 8 uses a "peep" or slide animation to move between multiple tile faces. You should use whichever of the peek templates is most appropriate to the data you wish to display on the tile.
There is no direct equivalent of the WP8 IconicTileTemplate.
The nearest similar templates are TileSquareBlock or TileWideBlockAndText0X as these allow a large number to be displayed, but no icon.
The nearest thing Windows8 has to the CycleTileTemplate is TileWideImageCollection as that is the Win8 way of showing multiple images.
For Ref: List of Win8 Tile templates
I have application Using WP7.x SDK. I am not using any Window Phone 8 feature.
My App's XAML Pages are fitting perfectly on WVGA and WXGA but on 720P on top of screen there is some blank space. How can i fix this problem (I don't want to create seprate build for Window Phone 8).Please advise.
Unfortunately, this is not possible. The WP7 apps running on WP8 devices are constrained in a 480x800 container.
To take advantage of the 720p screen, you'll have to build a WP8 version of your app.
At least graphically this is possible. You can handle WP7 XNA inputs and graphics right: look my awnswer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23457119/766304
Second thing that you have to do is render your Silverlight / XAML UI with XNA. More information about that from here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh221583.aspx
All of that is tested and works well but this will manipulate only rendering and not XAML input side, input fixing could be possible or not. Still difrense between those two aspect ratios is so small that result can be good enought.
I am familiar with the standard application icon images that come with the Windows Phone sdk, but I would like to use some of these images as demonstrated on the standard start screen, with the 173x173 dimensions for the application tiles. I've tried resizing these, but they are so blurry they aren't worth using. Is there a place to download the same (or similiar) images that come with SDK except in a larger size?
Also have a look at the Icons8 icon pack, they only ask for a link to their site or $199 without a link
Have a look at Metro Studio by Syncfusion. I use it in all my applications and its free.