Windows Phone 8: Live Tiles and Lock Screen
Published on Friday, January 25, 2013 9:30:00 AM UTC in Programming
The most prominent change in Windows Phone 8 (and 7.8 for that matter), because it's immediately visible to everyone at first glance, is the redesigned start screen with the new sizes for live tiles. In Windows Phone 7, the only option we had were square-sized tiles. Yes, phones had large landscape tiles too (for example for the pictures app), however these were not accessible to third-party developers. With Windows Phone 8, we now have three available sizes for tiles at hand, and we also can choose between multiple templates to get different looks more easily. Best of all, as we will see in this article you can even make use of a lot of the new tile features even if your app does not target Windows Phone 8 or 7.8, but only 7.1. Another feature that is tightly related to tiles (even though it may not seem like that at first) is the new lock screen notification options that we will look at in the second half of this article. Read the full article on SilverlightShow:
http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Windows-Phone-8-Live-Tiles-and-Lock-Screen.aspx
Tags: Windows Phone · Windows Phone 8