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Transparent tile but color icon for the Windows Store

I want to have a transparent square tile for my application, but in the store it should have a green background behind the same icon. Is there any way to achieve this? In 8.1, we had (still) a 300x300 “application bar icon” that is used for the store, which I suppose, but now it seems to use the image from Package.appxmanifest, and even if I explicitly set the opaque image to “ Store logo, it’s not working.

The question is that everyone has the opportunity to have a transparent tile for the initial screen, but the solid color icon in the Repository?

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Yes, the “application bar icon” is only used on Windows Phone 8.1 or earlier, and in practice, UWP uses the environment to view applications in the store. StoreLogo is actually a small icon and is used in the respective scenarios (as you already mentioned).

A possible workaround might be the following:

  • use the solid color icon as the default tile to use in the vault, and
  • refresh the tile with another transparent image after starting the application (just do not specify the expiration date).

ps Some applications also use this approach to provide users with a choice whether they prefer to use the corporate color on the tile or use the color accent system.

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When I create a UWP application in Visual Studio, a unique file is created for the Windows Store logo: StoreLogo.png. Can't you just change this file to opaque? enter image description here

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