How to change background color of the Metro App tile

Question

Hi,

I created live tiles for my Metro app. But I couldn't able to figure out how to change the background color of the tiles. Currently , my live tiles were showing the content on black colored background. Please help me to understand how to get different background color for tiles. Also

Thanks,

Suresh

 

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Suresh

Answer 1

Hi Suresh,

Your tiles will use the background color of your application.  This is specified in your Manifest in the first Tab.

-Jeff

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Jeff Sanders (MSFT)

Answer 2

Thanks Jeff!

I have changed my tile background. The other issue I am facing since the beginning is sometimes the tiles were showing with content broken and sometimes blank tile as shown below:

This is happening only for my app, the rest of the default apps in Windows 8 works fine. Can you suggest me how to fix this.

Thanks,

Suresh

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Suresh

Answer 3

Hi Suresh,

I have seen this when you do not use the correct image size of have changed the XML inappropriately.

What are the parameters you are using for these values?

-Jeff

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Jeff Sanders (MSFT)

Answer 4

Hi Jeff,

Yes I used different sized images for tiles. what are the correct dimensions of the Image for Wide and short tiles?

I used the Templates TileTemplateType.TileWideImage,TileTemplateType.TileWideText01 and TileTemplateType.TileWideSmallImageAndText02.  I extracted Image element and text elements correctly from Template XMLs and updated.

Thanks, 

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Suresh

Answer 5

Suresh,

You can get the image sizes from the Simple and or Advanced Tile Samples.

-Jeff

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Jeff Sanders (MSFT)