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.
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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.
I am developing an App which needs to capture an event when the user takes a photo. But I don't want to use the photo task within my app, I mean, this app runs in background and when the user decides to use the camera and takes a photo, then the app shows a toast and uses the Stream to save the photo to the local storage.
I would like to know if doing this is possible and, if so, how could I do it.
Thank you in advance.
No, you can't but when your application is use for update picture or other things about picture, your application can be found in --> Photo --> application (item of pivot)
I want create AeroGlass effect in my application (not whole system) but it seem Microsoft was drop this feature from windows 8, so, I have to create it my own.
To create this effect, I'm going to get a rectangle of image below the window of my application and apply gauss blur on it and finaly draw to my windows. But how can I get image below the windows?
I wanted to ask what is the best way to show a group of thumbnails in wp7 app? Should I use stacks or lists or should i bind them to the content panel grid directly. I wanted to show 2 columns of thumbnails.
I feel you, you should use the
Wrappanel
embedded in listbox's itemtemplate.
Which gives the View like Picture hub in WP7.
For more information on how to create use this link
Check for Wp7 Image listing.
or use this link to how to create the same
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.