is it possible to have the tiles blink when we receive a new email, text, missed call or voicemail. ??
I guess since tiles can be animated I wouldn't see why not. I would like to be able to combine some email notifications into one tile. I have 4 separate email tiles on my main screen as it is.
i think it would be nice to have that, one email tile but encorporate all the emails through that one tile, and having the blinking tile to notify us when something does arrive..
Tempest790 said:
I guess since tiles can be animated I wouldn't see why not. I would like to be able to combine some email notifications into one tile. I have 4 separate email tiles on my main screen as it is.
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Can they? I believe the 3rd party tiles are just images pulled from a website.
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Does anyone know if there is a tweak that allows push notifications to android OS? I'm coming from an iphone and has been spoiled by that. I'm a bit of a facebook addict and I like being notified instantly kind of like what handcent does for sms.
Yea, they are at the top of your screen and pop up for every incoming anything. They are unobtrusive (unlike the iPhone). You swipe down from the notification bar at the top of the screen to read/respond to them. You can enable notifications for Facebook in the Facebook app.
Nagrom Nniuq said:
Yea, they are at the top of your screen and pop up for every incoming anything. They are unobtrusive (unlike the iPhone). You swipe down from the notification bar at the top of the screen to read/respond to them. You can enable notifications for Facebook in the Facebook app.
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Thanks mate
Does anyone know or have a list of some sort of current 3rd party apps that support the live tile function? Right now I know of only one, Weatherbug. I hope that twitter and Facebook add this function.
Although I did see a WP7 commerical with a samsung focus that highlighted a Twitter app (looked like the official twitter app) that had the number of new tweets show up on the tile.....maybe its a soon to be added feature.
I think that many developers is waiting until they get a better way of managing the live tiles, with animations and such as seen in the "native" tiles.
AP Mobile news app sort of has a live tile.
Sir. Haxalot said:
I think that many developers is waiting until they get a better way of managing the live tiles, with animations and such as seen in the "native" tiles.
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Solo devs will need a lowcost/free way to provide the needed services to make a live tile. Also, it's rather new to most people, so we'll probably see more live tiles in future generations.
Has there been any other new apps with live tiles?
So far I see
Weather Bug
The Weather Channel
GReadie (doesn't work for me)
HTC HUB (doesn't work for me)
Beezz (Doesn't work for me)
Flixter
just remember though... at the time of testing each app, a few different servers are involved and one could of been down and you should try again.
for example beezz goes from your phone to MS servers to beezz, to twitter. so if one link is stuffed, live tile is gone.
Would be great to have an active tile with spot gold/silver pricing. Thx.
What are you requesting? I am moving this to general for the time being.
~~Tito~~
Thanks Tito.
Am requesting an app that allows for an active tile where on the tile is text of the price of gold and silver. Due to being an active tile means you could set it to update said price every 10 minutes, minute, 10 seconds, etc. This way the tile shows you pricing updated at user set intervales.
Where would the feed come from?
Phone Titan said:
Where would the feed come from?
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There are many feeds/sources available from the Internet.
www.kitconet.com
www.livecharts.co.uk/MarketCharts/gold.php
www.stockmaster.in/gold.html
There is a taskbar version if you need to see more code
www.kitco.com/kcastwindows/
And MANY others.
There is also a Windows Sidebar app that shows gold and silver pricing if you need to see how they integrate the feed.
So the app could hook into various feeds (or just one like the Windows Sidebar). These are generally very stable financial feeds of course.
See attached sidebar app.
Hey everyone!
Now that most of you have tasted mango.. do you guys felt any difference about push notifications?
I didn't have any app with broken push, and everything is working fine BUT live tiles.
Sometimes I open the app, see the news and when I come back to home screen, the tile still there with the number of notifications that it has before.
I had the same problem with NoDo and thought it was going to be solved with Mango.
I'm not a developer so I don't know. I didn't read that everyone would need to adapt their apps to the new mango push system. Just read that push would work properly.
So.. developers will need to modify their apps to mango push?
Btw, does anybody knows if with mango will be allowed custom sounds to push notifications? It sucks to hear the same ring to every push you have. It's ok when the app doesnt include the sound, use a default one. But it's great to have different sounds to every app you have.
Thank you guys.
I am not aware of a new Mango push notification system. Though maybe I missed something.
I thought the major change for Mango was that Background Agents would allow applications in the background to update tiles and show toast messages. This means developers can do live tiles without having to have a web server setup and without using the actual push notification system.
Nop!
The whole push system would be revamped, as far as I know. And this should solve all push notifications problems, and turn it reliable.
Now I'm at mango and didn't miss a single push. But Live Tiles still with problems.
I know that this is a beta. Just sharing my problem.
Re Notification in general...
Mango has much improved the notification system with tile flipping. I still would like to see a central place for ALL notifications (not just social) but it's a good start.
I had lots of issues with tiles not updating correctly and still showing data even though they should have been dismissed already. I can't even count how many times I deleted the related keys in the registry. Now with Mango everything works like a charm. Toast, live tiles, dismissing. I even have more live tiles pinned to the start screen than with NoDo. It sometimes just takes larger amount of time before a live tile becomes updated. But I since this seems to be app specific, I guess they just use a longer update frequency there.
If I use a third party email app, is there any way to get notifications? For example, the Asus Cover App has an email icon on the clock screen but I never see notifications there. I am guessing that is somehow tied to the default email app which I don't use. I'm using AquaMail and I have looked there for any kind of setting to achieve that but have not found anything.
Thought I'd bring this up to the top one more time. Does anyone know if this can be done?
I'm not using the built in email app. However, I would like notifications to show on the clock with the circle app. I'm using AquaMail, and it DOES give me notifications, but they do not show under the email icon in the circle app. Can this be done, or no?