I am building a windows store app. I want the tile of that app at a specific location of my start screen. Is there any API to code the position of my tile on start screen?
Thanks in advance!!
No. You can't control where the tile goes - that is up to the user to determine. The central pillar of the Windows 8 environment design philosophy is that the user is in control.
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I am developing application for Windows Phone 8.1.
I have developed live tile for my app. I am trying to find a way to configure live tile change animation. By default I see kind of Flip animation. It looks a little annoying. I do want to change it.
So, how to configure live tile change animation?
You can't change it, which in my eyes is the best choice for a consistent user experience and performance of the start screen.
Is there any way in the new windows 8 / windows phone 8 api to dynamically resize the tile ?
Given that we have an app displaying messages on it's tile,
When we have no important message,
Our tile can be small, like an icon
Given that we have an app displaying messages on it's tile,
When we have some important message,
Resize the tile to fit that important message.
You got the idea, how to do it ?
In Windows 8, developers cannot control the size of the tile. It is entirely up to the user.
Same story with the Windows Phone 8, seems there won't be any way to programmatically change the size of your tile. I would recommend to show special alert icon or badge as part of tile image in this case. You can also show toast message to notify user.
Before windows 8, if application want to non-intrusively inform user that something happens, it displays tray icon, maybe animated. For example, if e-mail application finds a new e-mail, it displays a new tray icon (outlook) or animate it's own icon in tray (all other e-mail clients).
With new Windows 8 Metro UI it's a new screen with tiles that supposed to be a main thing user will use to launch and switch apps. Where is no tray area in this mode, but many other things - charms area, something like status area that displays clock and battery usage etc.
According to Microsoft Metro UI design guides - what is the new place for poor e-mail app notification icon?
I think what you want is a notification. There are three kinds of notifications: a tile update, a badge update on the tile or a "toast" in the upper right corner of the screen (when in another application). The various options for these types of notifications are listed here.
The new place to let someone know your app has updated information is the tile itself.
These are called "Live Tiles" because they're intended to be dynamic, and change as new data becomes available.
http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-feature-focus-tiles-143175
Are we only going to be able to create full screen Metro-style applications?
Yes:
Metro style apps are full screen apps tailored to your users' needs, tailored to the device they run on, tailored for touch interaction, and tailored to the Windows user interface.
Otherwise, as John Gardner points out, your app would not be a Metro-style app: if it exists on the desktop, it is by definition a desktop app.
But that's kindof the point of Metro.
You don't always have fullscreen either, because depending on screen size, you can have 2 applications visible.
If you want to use the desktop, you fall back into the standard windows desktop and use standard desktop applicatoins.
Yes but you can re-size your app by using Snap Feature.
I don't know exactly what are your requirements but better look at this and this video
In a Silverlight 4 out of browser app (oob) is there any way to programatically move the main window after the application start-up event.
The reason / Use case: A user selects an option on a silverlight desktop gadget app, the apps window grows to accomodate extra details. If the app started very near the right of the screen the details are obscured/ fall off the edge of the screen and the user needs to drag the window to the left. When the window returns to its smaller state it is now positioned to far left so the user needs to drag the window right again. It would be convention for the app to move itself back and forth automatically to accomodate the details.
Thanks.
Avida - yes you can move the MainWindow using Top/Left properties as long as WindowsStartupPosition is Manual
I will leave the answer below to show my shame... sorry I did not read the question properly.
If you mean the position within the web page, yes you can.
Silverlight can execute Javascript on the hosting page to change attributes (including the size or position of the Silverlight plugin itself).
I have used this feature to resize a Silverlight 3 application to fit its content, enabling use of the browser scrollbars to move down a large app (not needed nowadays with full mousewheel support, but the principle is the same).