Question

I am trying to make a Windows Phone App. I could not find any resources about updating the tiles like it is done in people app. Is the people app having special features because the it is in-build?

If not they should be joining all the profile pics and showing as a new tile image every time a an update happens. If this is what happening, how is it been done, from the coding perceptive?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you mean the People tile, then no, you can’t create a animated tile like that.

But generally you can create very custom tiles, and you can utilize the flip-functionality, and display two different tiles. If you run it as a background service, you can also update the image(s) every 30th minute.

I wrote a guide on how to create advanced tiles.