Improving our application tile
One of the principles of the Windows Store style apps is to invest in a great tile. As the entry point to our applications and the main point of interaction with the Windows 8 UI, it is obviously extremely important.
A tile is the main interface of our application in the Windows 8 UI, which can provide a much more engaging experience than a traditional icon, as it is much more personal. We can update it while our app is not running, thereby keeping it alive.
We will dedicate this recipe to improving our application's main tile.
Getting ready
We will implement this recipe on the application we have been developing, but we could apply what we are going to do to any Windows Store app.
How to do it...
Here we are going to ...
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