EDIT : For a first step, a "3D touch like" could be nice. Something like : long press on a tile, on one of the corners, a little "...", tap on it, a list of actions appear (kinda like the photos app when you hold your finger on an image), and "Send a text", "Open", "Customize the tile", "disable tile animation"...
yea i like it like this to be a livetile show what it does but with a button up there you could make it bigger like folders see what you can changed/do then minimize again intresting i hope they will see your idea and try to bring it forward to all of us when they finish with their problems :3
I like it. Very often i try to interact with live tiles, before to realize that i cannot!
The example is pretty redundant. Just hit the volume keys to bring up music controls.
Interactive live tiles should be just that. Interacting with the tile itself, like scrolling through info or whatever, not actually opening up the app in a little window. That's something different.
Interesting and fresh, but there can be problems in implementation. Considering that a lot of apps now take some time to start, that start time will still be present in being able to access app features just by maximizing the tile - unless all those tiles are actively running in the task-switcher level "background" which then translates to more power requirement (shorter battery life). More RAM and multi-tasking capabilities will be required as well.
Imagine expanding the tile and then comes the dreaded "Loading..." or his brother "Resuming...".
This is not just for music. Can be good for every other apps.
OK. But one thing. How does the kind of interactivity that we see in the Notifications take place (on W10M). For example, I get a message on Readit. I get a notification. I can reply to the message directly from the Notifications Center without opening the Readit app. I think the same is the case with SMS. It would be very convenient if it would be possible to have exactly the same functionality on Live Tiles. Take the email app for example. It would be cool if it were possible to reply to emails directly from the live tile. Same for Twitter etc...etc...Is this also not possible technically?
Technically, hardware capability is the only limitation.
In my opinion, being able to do quick simple tasks through the notification center is sufficient; implementing this feature in Live Tiles might be redundant - why not open the app itself and be able to "fully" do what you want in the entire space of the screen rather than in a confined space within a "Tile" since it's the same functionality anyway? Being able to reply to SMS through the notification/action center is a step in the right direction; let's hope that Microsoft will enable this feature for all other similar apps.
Again, the idea is neat and interesting - gives the user experience a fresh feel, giving depth to the definition of "live" in "live tile". Maybe a little demo video would enlighten us more on the idea and how it could look like. :smile: