Band Pro - a Windows Phone app for customizing for your Microsoft Band

Band Pro

We take seen an explosion of Microsoft Band Apps landing in the Windows Phone Store and Band Pro is ane of the latest to join the genre of apps.

The app will let you customize the Band'due south wallpaper and insert an prototype icon into the mix. Band Pro comes pre-loaded with a scattering of wallpapers and icons to cull from as well every bit the power to use your own images. It makes a nice impression and overall, Band Pro has the potential of being a quality improver to the Windows Phone collection of Ring apps.

Band Pro'southward interface is centered effectually, for the near part, one screen. Along the lesser of this screen you will find options to view the Near screen, the Help screen, synchronize your wallpaper, charge per unit the app in the Windows Phone Store and like the app's Facebook page.

Band Pro

Middle screen you will find a preview of your wallpaper. Higher up the preview prototype volition exist your choices of wallpapers and icons and below the preview image are two control buttons to add round tiles or icons to the epitome.

Navigation isn't the cleanest with Band Pro and involves a serial of taps to toggle betwixt customizing your wallpaper and the round tiles, also as deleting the circular tiles. If you tap on the wallpaper, yous volition be able to choose one of the several pre-loaded wallpapers or one of your ain images.

Pre-loaded wallpapers includes a series photographs, solid colors and abstracts. If you choose your ain epitome, a crop window volition appear on the epitome that y'all can position over the portion of your image you want to use. Once in position, double tap the crop frame to transport information technology to the preview paradigm.

Simply remember with full images, you lack the ability to reduce the image size to fit the crop expanse. To use the total image, yous'll need to resize the paradigm to 310 x 102 pixels with a photograph editor before selecting it in Band Pro.

Band Pro cropping image

Band Pro has support for ii circular tiles and when you start launch the app, yous'll see ii already in identify. To edit the round tile image, but tap on the tile to pull up a collection of pre-loaded images that currently includes the logos from the major sports leagues (NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL). You lot also accept the ability to employ a portion of an image from your Windows Phone Pictures Hub.

If yous just want one tile or no tiles, double tap on the round tile yous want deleted. You can reposition the tiles by touch and if you ever want to restore a tile y'all deleted, tap the + button below the preview paradigm. Tapping the + button will ship you to your Windows Phone Pictures Hub and if you want a sports logo, just striking the back push button, select the logo and information technology volition be added to your wallpaper creation.

When the dust settles and you have your wallpaper ready to go, you can save the wallpaper for time to come apply (it volition be stored under the Save tab on the wallpaper carte du jour) and send information technology to your Microsoft Band.

Overall Impression

While I liked Band Pro, I as well see it equally a piece of work in progress that has a lot of potential. While information technology has a nice pick of wallpapers and gives you the ability to utilise your ain images, the interface is a little cumbersome and the round tile images are a lilliputian limited.

It is our agreement that more images are in the works for Ring Pro, which will assistance the app'south appeal. And while y'all do get used to all the tapping effectually to build a wallpaper, the interface could be more than fluid, specially with the round tiles.

The but other issue that some may have with Band Pro is the lack of a trial version. It would take been squeamish to have seen a fourth dimension express trial or maybe a trial version where you couldn't relieve wallpapers available to permit Band owners attempt things out before buying. Maybe even put advertizement-support on the trial version to make that option available.

While the overall feel is one of a piece of work in progress, Band Pro lays a nice foundation for a customization app for the Microsoft Band. If you give Band Pro a attempt allow u.s. know what you lot recall in the comments below. You can also head over to this Windows Fundamental Forums Word and chat it up with the developer.

Download Band Pro for Windows Telephone ($1.29)

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