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Resizing the HubTile Control

One common task is to make the HubTile larger, to provide better proportions on a single page. The original HubTile is modelled after the live tiles on the Windows Phone 7 start screen, so it was set at a size of 173x173. This works fine on the start screen, but on a single page inside your app it will feel a little awkward with the blank space on the right hand side.

In Blend, right click on the AvatarListView in the Objects and Timeline panel. Edit Additional Template - Edit Generated Items (ItemTemplate) - Edit a Copy. Give your template a name (AvatarItemTemplate) and accept the default to define it in the current document.

Next, right click on the HubTile element in the Objects and Timeline panel and choose Edit Template - Edit a copy and name it AvatarHubTileStyle.

This will create a new control template based on the original HubTile. Your AvatarHubTileStyle will contain a number of elements as shown in the picture below.

If you click on the TitlePanel element, you see that the magic of the HubTile is really just made up of three different elements a Border, BackPanel (a Grid) and an Image (inside a Border). Animations are used to move and flip these elements to give them the "Live Tile" feel.

Now that you have your own version of the HubTile to play with, you are only limited by your imagination as to how you want it to be rendered.


Posted: Jun 27 2012, 20:02 by CameronM | Comments (0) RSS comment feed |
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Filed under: Windows Phone 7 | WP7