Tiles are nothing but linking an application to the Home Screen with some options to update the status. Here have 2 types of Tile development available.
Application Tile
This type is used when the application is pinned to the Start screen by the user for easy accessing with the application Icon in the application list. Clicking on the tile will navigate directly to the application for easy accessibility.
Secondly Tile
This type is basically created programmatically by the application based on the user interaction. This type of Tile will be used to navigate to the application and can be create only one instance.