Change tile navigation after tile update on Windows Phone

Question

I'm sending a tile update to my app users. After the tile update I would like to automatically direct the user to the new updated page once he clicks the new tile. Is there any way I can achieve this?

I can't pull the server anymore because it's a fire & forget mechanism.

With toast notifications I can use the following message in my notification:

<wp:Param>/Views/MyPage.xaml</wp:Param>

But that doesn't seem to work with my FlipTile update.

That's an interesting question. Still, you have no guarantee of delivery when using notifications. Therefore, is it really safe for your app to rely on a "fire & forget mechanism", even if you're able to solve the tile issue? — Kevin Gosse, May 29 '13 at 11:45
That's a risk I have to take I suppose. The app isn't for consumers but more a private app in house. I'd rather be fixing this problem than worrying about the 1% change of a failed push notification :) — Kevin Cloet, May 29 '13 at 11:48

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 29 '13 at 16:28

Im not quite sure if this is what you are looking for, but can you just replace the Tile once the app is loaded? Somewhat like this:

/// <summary>
/// Creates or replaces a tile with a Title and a parameter
/// </summary>
public void replaceTile()
{
//ShellTile TileToFind = ShellTile.ActiveTiles.First();

string tileTitle = "Title of the Tile";


//You might want to use your Parameter from the toast here as the PageName
ShellTile TileToFind = FindTile( "/PageName.xaml?parameter" );

StandardTileData NewTileData = new StandardTileData
{
    Title = tileTitle,
    BackgroundImage = new Uri( "/Resources/tile_icon.png", UriKind.Relative ),
    Count = 0,
    BackTitle = "",
    //BackBackgroundImage = new Uri("/Resources/appicon_large.png", UriKind.Relative),
    BackBackgroundImage = new Uri( "", UriKind.Relative ),
    BackContent = ""
};

// Application should always be found, since it is always the first tile (even if not on homescreen)
if ( TileToFind == null )
{


    // Update the Application Tile with the NewTileData
    //TileToFind.Update( NewTileData );


    //Or replace an existing (second) tile with the new, updated Tile
    //ShellTile alreadyExistingTile = FindTile( "/PageName.xaml?parameter" );

    //if ( alreadyExistingTile != null )
    //{
    //  alreadyExistingTile.Delete();
    //}

    ShellTile.Create( new Uri( "/PageName.xaml?parameter=" + newParameter, UriKind.Relative ), NewTileData );
}
else
{
    TileToFind.Update( NewTileData );
}}

Nope that's not what I'm looking for. I need to change the NavigationUri via a tile push notification. So even when the app is not running the NavigationUri can be changed. — Kevin Cloet, May 29 '13 at 16:56

Change tile navigation after tile update on Windows Phone

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