I am trying to implement live tiles in my Windows phone 8.1 application. I saw nice feature in default Photos application. When on tile displaying large picture, it starting to "float" inside tile. Can anyone tell me how to achive this effect? I have read all info in the internet, but nowhere can find anything about that.
Here is what i am talking about:
If you're using Silverlight app, you can get this exact behavior using CycleTileTemplate to show upto 9 images.
If you're using XAML app, you can use notification queue (by calling EnableNotificationQueue in your TileUpdater object) to queue up to 5 tile updates, each containing an image, so that they'll be shown one after another. However, the tile updates do not slide as the Photos app. Instead they flip to show different queued updates.
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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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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 would like to create a tile (not necessary a hub tile, it may be a grid box) for my application. On that tile I want to display a picture and give it a moving effect like the pictures hub. How can I achieve this? Please guide me
In Windows Phone 7.5, you can't. Perhaps in 7.8? or 8? But not in anything we have currently.
I am trying to make a Windows Phone App. I could not find any resources about updating the tiles like it is done in people app. Is the people app having special features because the it is in-build?
If not they should be joining all the profile pics and showing as a new tile image every time a an update happens. If this is what happening, how is it been done, from the coding perceptive?
Thanks in advance.
If you mean the People tile, then no, you can't create a animated tile like that.
But generally you can create very custom tiles, and you can utilize the flip-functionality, and display two different tiles. If you run it as a background service, you can also update the image(s) every 30th minute.
I wrote a guide on how to create advanced tiles.
How do you create a live tile? Do you have to create a special sort of XAML file or is it predefined and we just pass parameters or both?
You create an application which can be pinned to the start screen by the user. The image of the tile used is in your application. After that you can use the pushnotification system to update the picture of the tile.
it's not possible to create a tile which animates like the xbox live tile for example.