Windows 8 - Custom Live Tile

Question

We are developing an app for Windows 8 in C#.

Our app involves drawings the user creates, and we'd like to incorporate their drawings into the live tile.

I have found examples of setting text and pictures as your app's live tile. Is there a way to do custom stuff to render lines, etc.?

Or is the only way to do what we need by rendering a PNG out to our app's AppData directory?

Answer 1

You will need to render a PNG or JPG into the apps data directory. The live tile has a fixed number of pre-defined templates and outside of that all you can do is pick the template with a full-tile image and supply your own image.