Live TilesYvan Ngneunmeu, Cameroon Microsoft Student Partners Lead

Yvan.Ngneunmeu@studentpartner.com

1. What you can do with Tiles

A Tile is an image that represents your app on the Start screen. All apps have at least one Tile, known as the default Tile, which displays on the Start screen when a customer pins your app from the App list.

What you can do with tiles

There are several things you can do with Tiles:

Support multiple sizes, customizable by your customer. Choose from one of three visual templates to help your

app stand out. Offer a variety of secondary Tiles. Control which page your customers land on when

clicking on your secondary Tiles.

What you can do with tiles

You also have a choice of how often, if at all, your Tile updates:

Never, by using a static Tile that is easily set up through Visual Studio.

Programmatically, by using immediate or scheduled local notifications.

Programmatically, by using a cloud service with push notifications.

1. Tile Template

Windows Phone 8 supports three Tile templates: flip, iconic, and cycle.It's important to carefully choose a template for your default Tile, because the template for default Tiles can't be programmatically changed using code later on.You'll have to submit an update to your app if you want to change your default Tile to a new template. Secondary Tiles, however, can be dynamically created on the fly from code using any template you want.

Tile Template

Flip template

Tile Template

Iconic template

Tile Template

Cycle template

3. Tile sizes and resolutions

Windows Phone 8 supports three Tile sizes: small, medium, and wide.

Flip and Cycle Iconic

Small 159 × 159 pixels 110 × 110 pixels

Medium 336 × 336 pixels 202 × 202 pixels

Wide 691 × 336 pixels N/A

4. More with Tiles

Learn more with MSDN:

Designing your Tile Tile properties Windows Phone OS 7.1 Tiles Enabling Windows Phone 8 Tiles in Windows Phone OS

7.1 apps Creating and updating Tiles

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