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
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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. :)
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.
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 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.
Xbox Live tile animation in Windows Phone is alot more dynamic than all the tile animations I was able to produce.
Is it possible to mimic that animation somehow in my live tile?
You can't have animated live tiles to that degree, only first-party applications have access to this functionality at the moment.
http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/Blog/BlogEntry=000554/BlogEntry.aspx
The only animation you get on the main desktop is the background / foreground tile flip animation, but that again is controlled by the OS.
This makes some measure of sense, otherwise the number of animated live tiles from third-party apps could fast degrade your battery.
In the Microsoft Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit 7.1 (http://silverlight.codeplex.com/) has a control called HubTitle, thats allow some additional (and very cool) tiles templates...