Current Plans

With a majority of my functional list done I will be moving on to more maintenance work.  I will be stabilizing the current code, bug fixing, etc.  As well as focusing on creating more live tiles and tile counts.  As it stands now, here are my goals:

- Folders (yes I plan on doing folders, I just have not decided on a good design)
- Live tiles (polishing the people tile, calendar, etc.)
- Tile Counts (Twitter, Facebook, Email...probably K-9, etc.)

BETA Closed

The BETA phase of Metro UI is closed.  The two apps, currently BETA & Stable, will be changed to Free & Pro.  I will still be supporting the Free/Beta version but any major new features (drag n drop, folders, animated tiles, etc.) will be only added to the Pro version.  In simpler terms here is a break down of what updates to expect depending on the version you currently have:

BETA/Free

• Bug Fixes
• Live Tile Updates (Facebook Count, Twitter Count, etc.)

Stable/Pro

• Bug Fixes
• New features 
• Folders
• More live tile options (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
• Animated Tiles (People, Pictures, Calendar, etc.)
• Drag n Drop (if I ever figure out how to allow a GridView to do this)
• Custom Tile sizes (2x1, 1x2, etc.)  (again...if I ever figure out how to allow a GridView to do this)

As always I appreciate your patience.  I do work full time and I do have a life outside of work.  So even if updates slow down, rest assured I am not giving up on development.  I will post here once I feel all major development is done on the Pro version (v 1.*).

NOTE:

Drag n Drop and 2x1/1x2 Tiles may not get into METRO UI until v2.0.  Again please have patience.  I do plan on adding these features.  The constraints of my current design seem to make it impossible at the moment.  So it may take a major development effort (hence v 2.0).  In the mean time I may try to add a "priority" property of each tile that I can sort on.  That way you can at least re-order just not via Drag n Drop.

Themes

In the next few days I will begin rolling out themes for the Pro version of the Signal Strength Widget.  To start with I will be creating different colored skins.  As I get more time I will be developing true themes that have a....theme (sports, movies, music, etc).  Please leave any theme ideas in the comments or email them to me.

Update (9/1): Themes are getting close, the settings are setup, I just need to work on updating the UI once the theme is changed.

Signal Strength Widget Pro Version

Several people asked for configurable options.  I added that ability in a "Pro" version of the widget.  The following is a list of the configurable options and what they do:

• Show Background
• Displays/Hides a background image for the widget
• Show Operator
• Displays/Hides the operator name
• Show dBms
• Displays/Hides the numeric signal strength indicator
• Use Generic '3G' Indicator
• Instead of displaying the specific technology used (i.e. Ev for EvDo, U for UMTS, H for HSPA, etc) the widget will group all 3G technologies into a group and just display 3G.

Both widgets are still very much in beta so please be patient and send me any enhancements or issues that you find.