Launching msbandguru.com

I quietly launched msbandguru.com a few weeks back, a Microsoft Band site for News, Tips, and Developer Info.

At msbandguru.com I will be posting:

• Microsoft Band enabled apps for Android, iOS, and Windows.
• Microsoft Band Web Tiles
• Microsoft Band News
• Microsoft Band Developer Guidelines
• Training with the Microsoft Band

If you have a Microsoft Band app, articles, website, developer article, or anything Microsoft Band related, get in touch with me.

You can also reach out to me on twitter at: @msbandguru

For development articles and blog posts about training with the Microsoft Band I will look at either cross posting here so readers less interested in Band news and apps can just pickup my posts about dev and fitness that they are used to finding here.

Check msbandguru.com out if you want to find out more about the Microsoft Band.

DroolFactory WebTile for Microsoft Band

DroolFactory WebTile

I have been working on the Microsoft Band SDK team for the past year or so. As part of that we just delivered WebTiles which allow you to display web content on the Microsoft Band without any programming.

A WebTile is a specially formatted zip file with a manifest and icons that contain the resources required by the Microsoft Health app to sync web content to a WebTile on the Microsoft Band.

You can find out more and create a webtile here: http://developer.microsoftband.com/WebTile

As an example, here is a webtile that has the ATOM feed for this blog: http://1drv.ms/1K8x8Pc

The above link will work from a Windows Phone, iPhone, or Android Phone with Microsoft Health installed.

Acknowledgements

Icon from: Bulldog by Randall Barriga from the Noun Project