I want to create a custom live tile. I just need to display a number with large digits (1 to 4 digits) in the center of the tile, no icon, no text or anything else and it should be possible to update the tile also.
I have tried the default tile, but it displays the number at the up-right corner with small font and cannot pass number 99.Any ideas? (programming in Visual Basic)
I wrote a guide, how to render your own tiles even with transparency, but beware of the memory consumption in background agent. Typically you should render at max only one tile:
Pro Live Tiles for Windows Phone
http://suchan.cz/?p=110
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I wanted to customize my start menu such that some of my tiles are large. But I have noticed that windows allows only small and medium sizes for certain tiles.
I wanted to make a tile large in size, so is there any way to tweak windows to allow me to choose my tile size of my own choice??
Please help?
If the application is not UWP and is a classic desktop application, only the small and medium options are available. Only the medium tile option is required for any app, and windows takes the app icon for that tile size. For the 'small' size it just scales the medium size image.
But when it comes to UWP apps, it is the developer's choice on which sizes to support for their apps according to the Microsoft Docs
To enable wide and large tile sizes, you need to provide the Wide310x150Logo and Square310x310Logo. Also, if possible, you should provide the Square71x71Logo for the small tile size (otherwise we will downsize your required Square150x150Logo for the small tile).
So there isn't much that you can change from your side apart from the available options it seems.
i am building windows store app. I am using windows 8 and WPF with visual studio .net 2012.
UI of this application should be scalable to different screens. I have created a page where the controls (buttons, images, texts) fits correctly when running the app on simulator with resolution 1920 x 1080 for 10.6" screens. The problem is that when i change resolution, controls do not behave correctly
when resolution or screen sizes are increased (ex. 1920 x 1080 for 23" screens) empty spaces are created on the page;
when resolution or screen sizes are decreased (ex. 1024 x 768 for 10.6" screens) controls sizes are increased too and some of them are not visible in UI because they are displayed too far in bottom.
Is there a way to build "scalable" store app which are independent of screen sizes or resolution? Control sizes and font sizes should increase and decrease when resolution change or from one screen to another but all of them should fit in the space and shouldn't create empty areas.
Any help would be very appreciated.
thank you
This MSDN article discusses the guidelines for scaling to screens.
it touches on Screen size, Screen resolution, and Aspect ratio. It provides a table which shows best practices recommended for apps that use scale-to-fit functionality and it touches on adaptive layout. there is a reference to [Guidelines for layouts] at the end of the article as well.
Hope this helps!
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh780612.aspx
joelcitizen
I am using a horizontal long bar in my application.
The size of screen varies upon the devices, so maintaining a size in resources is not a good practice.
Is it possible to repeat the image in horizontal axis in wp7.
There is no repeat behavior in Silverlight's XAML (unlike WPF which supports it).
It is not recommanded to follow this way on the phone. You should create a larger image which includes the tiled effect at design time. You app will run faster because it will reduce the amount of work your app needs to do.
Currently Windows Phone 7 only supports 480 x 800 screen resolutions, although this will change in Windows Phone 8. Why not just resize the background? If you really want, you could create a repeating background image in an image editor, set it as the background image, and set stretch to none.
I saw some apps like twitter having recent tweets on Live Tiles. The Tiles are rectangle and occupy whole space and not square like all other apps. How to change or create the rectangle Live tiles..? Any idea?
It is currently not possible to have the rectangle tile. With version 7.8 and 8 apps will have the ability to have multiple size tiles. With 7.5 we are limited to just the square tile. With the square tile you can put into on the back tile. To update the tile see the Tile Overview sample on msdn. You can download the complete sample here.
it is not possible.
at the moment in 7.5, only native app from microsoft such as Calendar and Pictures have rectangle tile.
therefore your existing tile can only be a square.
you would have to wait for 7.8 or 8.0 for possibility of doing so.
Which would be the best size for different WP7 controls(like listview items, buttons etc) in order to be "finger friendly"? Is any resource that handle this problem?
According to the UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone 7 v2.0:
Touch targets should not be smaller than 9 mm or 34 pixels square and
provide at least 2 mm or 8 pixels between touchable controls. In excep-
tional cases, controls can be smaller but never more than 7 mm or 26
pixels square. The on-screen keyboard and hyperlinks in Windows Phone®
Internet Explorer® are an exception because they have differently sized hit
targets.