I am trying to use a live tile layout similar to the official Windows Phone 8 "Calendar" app for my app's live tile and I am also trying to update the lock screen notification. I was originally planning on using the Iconic tile template because it seems to be the most straightforward means to display text, but realized that it does not display any text unless the user uses the wide tile size. The other option seems to be flip tile, but I want the text to be displayed on the front of the tile, not on the flip side. I considered using the cycle tile template and generate the image to show for various tile sizes, but seems like I can't update the lock screen notification if I use that. Does anyone know how I can display text on a medium sized tile and also have the same text appear on the lock screen notification?
It does not use a publicly available tile template. You would have to recreate the template using an image, for example as in http://blog.anthonybaker.me/2013/05/wp8-tip-creating-live-tiles-with.html
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I would like to create a webpage that displays one image at a time with shapes and annotations shown over it. Each image should have a unique URL address in the address bar.
I have a set of images as PNGs. For each image there is a set of shapes (rectangles, polylines - as pairs of x,y coordinates in pixels) and annotations (location on the image x, y in pixels and a short text as string) to be displayed over it.
When user loads the unique url for an image they should see it with shapes displayed on top of it and annotation markers shown as circles. When user presses a button labeled „next“ the page loads the next PNG with its corresponding shapes and annotations. User can click on an annotation marker and a text balloon should open to show the text for the annotation.
How to approach developing this? I am asking since I don’t have an overview of web app frameworks or the current best practices for databases and graphic formats for online content.
I have experience in programming - Python, datascience, Procedural geometry, Unity for game development (C#), Lua - but not for the web.
I can do a WebGL app using Unity to do what i want and link it to a MySQL database but it feels like shooting a fly with bazooka. Maybe there is an easier, simpler way. Any advice or tips would be appreciated.
The best tip, I think, is in one of the tags of your question: canvas.
Images can be drawn onto it, as well as shapes. To handle your markers you could compare the coordinates of a click on the canvas to the coordinates of your markers (see this post for further info on getting the click coordinates). The annotation balloons could be realised by hiding or showing a simple <div> on click.
As for web app frameworks, depending on how fancy it should be you could do it "by hand" in native html and css, or use something with nice predefined components, like Bootstrap.
Depending on where you will be hosting this webpage, you will, or will not have to worry about the backend/server. There are numerous hosting providers available that provide user-friendly admin panels.
How do I create 150x150 square live tile with image collection in Windows Phone 8.1? There seem to be no template defined however few apps like People have it.
All the tile templates available are listed here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh761491.aspx
Built-in native apps, such as the People hub or Cortana, have access to special live tile templates. As far as I know, there is no way for third-party developers to use them.
I am trying to create a Live Tile with a different layout that the ones defined in the tile template catalog. Specifically, I want text to appear on top of an image for the 150x150 tile. Is there a way to do this for a Windows 8.1 app? I do not see this template for that size. Thanks
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh761491.aspx
if you want to create a custom live tile you have to create image and use it as a background for your live tile.
Take a look at this post: http://spasol.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/creating-custom-live-tiles-for-windows-phone/ the Update Live Tile with custom parameters section.
Additionally If you need to update your live tile using background task you need to use http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/windows.ui.xaml.media.imaging.xamlrenderingbackgroundtask.aspx
How to create Tiles like UI within our app. If I use a button with image, its showing with borders. If I create a secondary tile, then the tile is getting created on the start screen.
Is there any way to create UI which looks similar to Tiles?
Thanks.
You can use Hub Tile from Windows Phone Toolkit. If you want many tiles in your apps, all arranged like in the start screen of Windows Phone device, then you should use Wrap Panel as container for those Hub Tiles. You can also create Tile like UI control as demonstrated very well by #Xin here
I was curious if it's possible to determine, in Windows Phone 8, where in the area of a Live Tile was a tap made. So if a Live-Tile is tapped in the lower right, would we be able to somehow determine this when it passes it's function to the app? Such as maybe x,y pos, or color, offset, any info at all?
The only information the OS gives you about the tile that was tapped is the URL that is associated to it. While it allows you to guess which tile was tapped, it doesn't give any relevant information about how the tile was tapped.
One workaround could be to use small tiles. You can simulate one medium tile by creating 4 small tiles, and you will be able to know which one of the four was tapped.