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rockydant
rockydant

Reputation: 129

Windows 8 Live Tile Icon Background Color

I am developing a WPF application. My customers want to use it on Windows 8 and it's working correctly. But they are complaining me about the background color of the app's icon on Start Screen.

So can you please show me how to change it in Visual Studio or some tricks? I found some tuts on Google to customize it but using tools and I want to make it happen in Installer or Property of project...

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Upvotes: 4

Views: 6191

Answers (3)

KillAllYourSons
KillAllYourSons

Reputation: 71

There is a similar question and answer: UWP Tile Background Color Not Working by Kasper, but is not specific to Windows 8, for anyone looking for a UWP solution.

As the answer by Anobik states, set the colour in the app manifest page. However, as it was found by Kasper, the value must be set in HEX for it to work as expected.

Upvotes: 0

Anobik
Anobik

Reputation: 4899

Change app icon color from the App Manifest file.

Heres the app manifest portion where you can change in the image

App tile background

In My case the bacground color is #464646 you can change it to any thing you want and update to the users :)

Because of this reason it is always advised by Microsoft to use Transparent Png logo and a uniform background color for app tile.

Upvotes: 3

Eriawan Kusumawardhono
Eriawan Kusumawardhono

Reputation: 4896

That background colot of app's icon on Windows 8 is the default behavior of Windows 8. It will display the background color of the app's icon using the "dominant" color of the app's icon. If your icon has dominant color of brown, it will display brown background.

This is also the similar default behavior when hovering mouse on running application's icons on Windows 7's taskbar. To enhance the look, try change the application icon to use neutral colors or light colors instead of dark colors.

Or you can change the icon of your app to use single color's icon (such as white) on transparent background to reflect the flat theme icons of Windows Store apps in Windows 8, or use full rectangle icons as those games in Windows 8.

Example:

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Upvotes: 0

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