WP7 Live Tile/Tiles Poll

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What is your top feature?

Scheduled Recordings
13
45%
Recent Movies
0
No votes
Recent Recorded TV
9
31%
Remote Shortcut
2
7%
PC shortcut
1
3%
Recorded TV Shortcut
4
14%
 
Total votes: 29

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WP7 Live Tile/Tiles Poll

#1

Post by Motz » Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:18 pm

What would be the 2 things you would like to see in live tiles if you had to pick one?
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#2

Post by STC » Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:28 pm

*jealous*

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#3

Post by newfiend » Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:36 pm

Upcoming recordings / recent recordings.. Just got the new Lumia 920, the ability to have the larger tile available in wp8 could give the ability to display much more info..

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Post by STC » Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:40 pm

So you can't vote through Board Express or Tapatalk eh?
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#5

Post by Embiggens » Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:05 pm

How would those shortcut options work in the context of a live tile? Do you mean, for example, when the tile is flipped one way, it would be a shortcut to the remote, and when it is flipped the other way it would take you to the main menu?

I'll probably vote for the recording info options in any case, just curious though.

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#6

Post by Motz » Wed Nov 14, 2012 7:37 pm

I think the shortcuts are just tiles... i guess i should have put live tiles/tiles.
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#7

Post by Embiggens » Wed Nov 14, 2012 7:44 pm

Ok I guess I should have figured that out.

Think about my idea though, I think people would really like an app that's tricky just to open. It would be pretty groundbreaking.

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#8

Post by jeffhesser » Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:27 pm

random/changing tv show art of the upcoming (or recent) recordings would be cool.

For the wide one - if you could set two or three channels to show the next hour or two in a guide style view that might be pretty awesome.

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Post by newfiend » Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:38 am

STC wrote:So you can't vote through Board Express or Tapatalk eh?
Sorry there is little we can do to fix that :(
Yeah the Poll doesn't work via Board Express Pro on WP.. Sorry for the "post vote" but it was all I could do at the time.. I did vote though through the poll via the Desktop PC..
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#10

Post by Motz » Tue Nov 20, 2012 5:24 pm

The people have spoken I think. I have a new weekend project :)
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#11

Post by newfiend » Thu Nov 22, 2012 2:19 am

Don't know if you guys know or not but the guys on HD Nation plugged the Ceton App once again.. Robert just loves it.. But I do too.. ;)
How are the live Tiles coming Motz? I am actually looking forward to this feature a lot.
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Post by Motz » Thu Nov 22, 2012 1:57 pm

YAY! i just took a view of their latest episode. Makes me feel good to have so much support from them :)

Will be working on it this weekend. Most of the code is already written since I did live tiles for the DMZ app about a year ago, so the code shouldn't take too long. Hoping to do it this weekend, I'll take a video monday or tuesday and post here.
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#13

Post by Motz » Sun Nov 25, 2012 1:31 am

Some images for you guys:
So basically you can turn on all 3 settings if you want and pick a PC. It will pull every 3 hours from the categories you have on, and then the data that is displayed is random every 30 minutes.... So throughout 3 hours you get 6 different things displayed.

Settings:
Live Tile Settings.PNG
Recent Recording:
Recent Recording.PNG
Scheduled:
Scheduled Live Tile.PNG
Movies:
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Post by newfiend » Sun Nov 25, 2012 2:05 am

Nice!!. Me likey.. Love the Movie artwork.. Any chance you can enable that for the Scheduled and Recording as well? Will you be able to support the Large Tile size in WP8 to add additional info? I really like the ability in WP8 to choose the tile size depending on the app..
Nice work Motz =)

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Post by Motz » Sun Nov 25, 2012 5:34 am

We need to enable images on scheduled and recording on the server side, and once we do I can update it.

As for large tiles I will trying to implement this:
http://www.techtronic.us/technology/use ... s-phone-7/

It is the same content, just more size basically.
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#16

Post by newfiend » Mon Nov 26, 2012 6:20 pm

Awesome. Can't wait.. ETA on update?? =) no pressure...haha

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Post by Motz » Mon Nov 26, 2012 9:33 pm

We have a few other things going on that will require me to update some items, so I don't think I will submit until first week in december or so. I want to test it really good and I also need to test against WP8 as well and ensure nothing odd is going on there. Hopefully a Christmas present to our WP users :)
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#18

Post by newfiend » Mon Nov 26, 2012 10:38 pm

Awesome!! .. Let me know if you want a WP8 Beta Tester =)

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Post by Motz » Tue Nov 27, 2012 12:34 am

Yeah most likely will do a beta again of it. Maybe next week if I can get through some of this win 8 app this week.
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Post by newfiend » Tue Nov 27, 2012 1:23 pm

Cool.. I ordered the wife a surface tablet for Xmas.. So I have that to test with as well if you like. I know you had asked me before about it and at that time I didn't have any w8 machines but I have one PC, one tablet and the phone if you need help let me know. Thanks Motz..
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