Question

I am trying to create a flip button that shows changing content on every alternate flip. UI looks something like this:

On every alternate flip the text will change in place of sample text 1, 2,3 and 4

I am trying to use Hub tile provided in windows phone control toolkit but facing issue that how can i show the text in the given format and change it on flip.

Text i will be getting from web service.

How can i achieve this or is there any work around for this?

Answer 1

For start screen tiles, you can only have a single front and a single back to a tile between executions of your app.

The only exception is that they can change on runs of a background agent, but this only occurs around every half hour (depending on how often your phone decides to run them) and there is a hard limit on the number of apps that can have background agents enabled at a time.

For in-app tiles, your best bet is to update the tile based on a timer.

You will need to programmatically build up an image, save it to Isolated Storage and assign it to the BackBackgroundImage to do any special formatting on the tile back.