Best practices for live hub tiles

Question

Hi,

I have an app that is using the notification property of a RadHubTile.  In this notification, I want to set a quantity retrieved from a local SQLite database.  The quantity will be dynamic.

What is the best way to update this notification?  A Background Task?  A simple timer?  or something else?

Thanks

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Cheri

Answer 1

Assuming this is in your app (and not the start screen tiles) then a background task would be inappropriate, but beyond that it will depend on the data. A timer is one possibility, but if you can trigger a notification when the item is changed rather than polling that will be better.

--Rob

Answer 2

Thank you Rob.  A background task seemed a bit overkill for my needs too.

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Cheri