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Hard time creating a Microsoft Band tile icon

It says in the Microsoft Band SDK Documentation about using a WriteableBitmap to create a tile icon, but how do I get it to point to the existing image I made for the Tile?

Solution

  • If your Windows Phone app has an asset named "Assets/Icon1.png", then that asset can be made into a BandIcon by something like:

    using Microsoft.Band;
using Microsoft.Band.Tiles;
using Microsoft.Band.Tiles.Pages;
using Windows.Storage;
using Windows.Storage.Streams;
using Windows.UI;
using Windows.UI.Xaml;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Media.Imaging;

    ...

    StorageFile imageFile = await StorageFile.GetFileFromApplicationUriAsync(new Uri("ms-appx:///Assets/Icon1.png"));
using (IRandomAccessStream fileStream = await imageFile.OpenAsync(FileAccessMode.Read)
{
    WriteableBitmap bitmap = new WriteableBitmap(1,1);
    await bitmap.SetSourceAsync(fileStream);
    return bitmap.ToBandIcon();
}