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Oleg Golovkov
Oleg Golovkov

Reputation: 706

Periodic tile update

I'm developing an application, that allows using dictionaries (e.g. English-German). I want to enable periodic tile updates for my application at start screen. I want to show random word with translation from random dictionary, so all I want to do is just show 2 strings (I found an appropriate template for it). I can show the notification once using TileUpdateManager.CreateTileUpdaterForApplication().AddToSchedule() but I want it to happen say every minute. I only found examples that use TileUpdateManager.CreateTileUpdaterForApplication().StartPeriodicUpdate() method and they all use some web address. Is there any way to make it happen using just my local strings without accessing cloud or something?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1106

Answers (1)

Krishna
Krishna

Reputation: 3007

For showing periodic tile updates periodically when your app is not running you need to provide a URL that will be requested every once in a while (I don't think you can set it to as frequent as 1 minute though - I think the least is 15 minutes.).

If your app is in the foreground, you can simply run a timer and show an update every minute.

You could use push notifications, but again - that's more complex than just providing a URL that returns the XML for a tile update.

In case you want to look at the possibilities: http://blog.equinoxe-consulting.net/blog/bard-rsquo-s-tile-i-introduction-and-local-tiles-and-badges

Upvotes: 3

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