Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow

Questions tagged [live-tile]

Live tiles are the entry point of Microsoft Metro apps, and can be updated with information to display to the user in an easily digestible format.

Live tiles represent Metro apps in the Start screen. They are the primary method through which the user will launch Metro apps, but they can also surface information and notifications directly through the tile itself, making it a dynamic representation of apps even when they are not running.

296 questions
1
vote
1 answer

Dynamic image assigned to live tile does not show?

I have a Windows Store app written in C# that works with photos. I want to show the last photo the user selected in the app in the medium size live tile (150 x 150). I am using the code below to do it. When I run the app I don't get any errors,…
Robert Oschler
  • 14,153
  • 18
  • 94
  • 227
1
vote
1 answer

When App Loses Focus, Do This

I have a method that I need to run when my app loses focus. Specifically, I need to update my live tile every time the user goes to the start menu. How can I trigger this method whenever the user either presses the back button or the start menu…
Evorlor
  • 7,263
  • 17
  • 70
  • 141
1
vote
4 answers

XML for TileSquare71x71IconWithBadge Template in Live tiles

Microsoft have a long list of great Live Tile templates, but no real guide on how to make them. I am trying to put together the XML for TileSquare71x71IconWithBadge, but the example XML is missing from that list for this one. What would that XML…
Evorlor
  • 7,263
  • 17
  • 70
  • 141
1
vote
2 answers

Read .xml File into XmlDocument

I have a live tile template such as: Text Field 1 (larger text) Text Field 2 …
Evorlor
  • 7,263
  • 17
  • 70
  • 141
1
vote
1 answer

How do you make live tiles for Windows Phone 8.1 Apps?

How do you make live tiles for Windows Phone 8.1 Apps? It is the best kept secret on the internet! I am trying to make a tile, which whenever the app is suspended, it updates the live tile with some text. I have read/watched roughly a dozen…
Evorlor
  • 7,263
  • 17
  • 70
  • 141
1
vote
1 answer

How does image scaling work in Windows Phone 8.1

I'm trying to work out how best to use the new scaling feature in Windows Phone Universal Apps I have an image in SVG format and I've created several different versions test.scale-100.png (100x100 pixels) test.scale-240.png (240x240 pixels) More to…
David Hayes
  • 7,402
  • 14
  • 50
  • 62
1
vote
1 answer

How do I remove the App name from my flipping live tile on Windows Phone?

I'm using this template TileWide310x150PeekImage03 from the documentation here. On the example image, the name of the App is not displayed on the image, but on my App the name of the app remains. This ruins the UI of my tile because the App name is…
Ben Johnson mk2
  • 101
  • 16
1
vote
1 answer

Template type mismatch while updating tile data

I'm trying to create and update a tile for my windows phone application. But when I try to implement code below (which is works good for msdn sample), it throws "An exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in Microsoft.Phone.ni.dll but…
T3sTR
  • 71
  • 8
1
vote
0 answers

Update Live Tile By setting poll URLs C#

I have developed an application on visual studio 2013 for windows 8.1 . I have % URLs for which i want to create live tiles . There is o function in app.xaml.cs where you can define poll URLs but i dont know how to do that. Can anyone help me…
Khushi
  • 49
  • 1
  • 3
  • 7
1
vote
1 answer

WP: How create a Live Tile like the one used by "Photos" app

I want to create a Live Tile that contains a moving image, like the Live Tile of "Photos" app. How can I do that? Does exist any library to do it?
Emanuele
  • 56
  • 6
1
vote
2 answers

Windows Phone 8.1 live tile background task

I have a Windows Phone 8 app that I recently upgraded to 8.1 Silverlight. I'd like to use the new tile templates. Right now I have a ScheduledTaskAgent that uses ShellTile. In order to use the new live tiles I changed the notification service to WNS…
Leon Cullens
  • 12,276
  • 10
  • 51
  • 85
1
vote
0 answers

background Agent works fine in local environment but failed after app submission to app store

I have an wp8 app using PeriodicTask background Agent. The task update the information of multiple live tiles, using POST Client to get title and image url from my server to update the live tile. Background agent works just fine in debugging and…
superwave
  • 180
  • 1
  • 8
1
vote
2 answers

Rendering a WriteableBitmap within Application_Deactivated event causes app to fail to re-activate after suspension

I am building a Windows Phone 8 version of an app that I already have for Windows Phone 7.1, which works perfectly. Inside the Application_Deactivated event (in App.xaml.cs) I attempt to update the secondary tile of my app, if pinned to the start…
Icarus
  • 139
  • 2
  • 13
1
vote
2 answers

Live Tiles updation starts after a day in Background Task.How to Start instantly

I have developed a windows 8 app which involves the Live tile being invoked through Background Task thus displaying certain RSS Feeds. However, when i install the app and right click on the tile, the button app bar does not have the button to turn…
YashVj
  • 63
  • 10
1
vote
0 answers

How to pull the latest RSS item from Facebook's public page feed?

I am trying to pull the latest item from my Facebook's page RSS feed. So far, I am able to find out the public RSS feed URL of a Facebook page's status update: https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=493782720637150&format=rss20 Is there a way…
Kunal Gupta
  • 449
  • 3
  • 22
1 2 3
…
19 20