Here's how to make our app a transparent Live tile and show up in your Notification center

WPCentral App Windows Phone 8.1

Before today nosotros updated our official Windows Telephone app to version 4.4.18.8. Yous'll find a lot of things in there that y'all'll similar if you're on Windows Phone viii.one. We've stock-still our app to expect great on your Start screen with its very own transparent Alive tile. You'll also exist able to pick upwards our notifications in the new Notification center. Bonus, all features in bachelor to paid users is now bachelor to those in the costless version of the app. Before you get on with your weekend nosotros just wanted to make certain yous all had the transparent Live tile and Notification eye working for our app. Here'due south how if you're not sure.

Transparent Live tile for Windows Phone Key

WPC Transparent Tile

In our app go to settings > Live tile > turn on Live tile

If yous desire to get extra fancy hop into the alive tile settings over again and click configure Live tile. This is where you can select between two unlike Alive tile styles for your Showtime screen. They are:

Iconic tile – Use the Iconic template from Microsoft, this ane sided tile shows the number of articles unread in all modes. When wide, the tile iii newest posts are displayed. This is a reliable tile as information technology follows Microsoft's SDK strictly.

WPCentral Flip Tile – Our custom tile template, shows the unread article count on the forepart of the tile and the latest headline and film on the rear. The wide tiles shows the meridian headline son the rear. Retention limitations tin can cause this tile to incorrectly render at times.

Whether or not you lot select the Iconic Tile or WPCentral Flip tile make certain you lot select the colour 'accent' if you want that transparent Live tile! Now for those notifications up meridian.

Manufactures in the Notification center

WPC Notifications

In our app go to settings > Live tile > turn on toast notifications

If yous want to meet united states of america popping up in the Notification center make sure you enable toast notifications for our app. This way anytime an article pops upwards you tin catch it in the Notification middle. Don't forget y'all can be a pro and manage the notification settings for any app, including ours, past going to your phone'southward settings > notifications + actions > tap the app. Here you can tell Windows Phone 8.1 whether or not you want those toast notifications to stay in the activity middle, change the audio and more than.

Enjoy using the official Windows Phone Central app with both transparent Live tiles and in your Notification center. Have whatsoever questions? Enquire below, though if they're technical you might desire to save them for Jay (@JayTBennett). Bask!

Download our app from the Windows Phone Store.

P.South. Before y'all ask, I don't remember where I plant that prototype I'yard using every bit the Get-go background above. I call back it was somewhere in this thread from the forums. Try those OneDrive links!

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