Thursday, November 22, 2012

Tile Genie limitations

The bug for the website launch is fixed as I posted earlier today, but I want to inform everyone of the software limitations.

Website Launch:
Due to security reasons, Windows does not allow a tile to launch another app. Therefore we are not able to launch Internet Explorer directly. The only way that we are able to launch a website is to open our app, and launch a website (essentially a hyperlink that we embed on launch when clicking on your custom tiles). If we could make this more direct, we would. This is not so we can make money on ads -in fact may have the opposite effect and limit ad revenue due to the short duration of the impression.

Photo formats:
Windows only allows .jpg and .png files for tiles. We have disabled the ability to select .bmp files. We hope to allow these in the future.

Camera setting for some portrait photos:
Some cameras we have found do not actually rotate photos. they have the photo in landscape mode permanently, but tell windows to show it rotated. This makes the photo experience act very bizarre in our app. We are currently working on fixing this scenario and will hopefully have this fixed soon.

2 comments:

  1. VOmo puedo descargar esta app para mi w8

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  2. I'm not jut getting a splash but an entire frame that loads and stays. I wouldn't mind if I just saw a splash screen. You can't get your app to close once the shortcut is loaded?

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