Hi resolution background doesn\t display well

Question

Hi,

My windows phone app has a black and red gradient background. It appears fine in Photoshop but when I add it as my background for my Samsung Focus, the gradient appears at a low resolution and I can see lines that differentiate where the colors change. Is this a limitation of the phone? I've seen wp7 apps out there using gradient backgrounds and they seem fine.

Thanks

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rvenable

Answer 1

Hello Rvenable,

Bydefault windows phone 7 app runs on 16-bit colour. You we can also use 32-bit color to get better color effect binding in gradient brush or image resources to set BitsPerPixel attributes inside the App tag of WMAppManifest.xml see below.

<App xmlns=”" BitsPerPixel=”32"...>

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff769509(v=VS.92).aspx

Hope it helps

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Answer 2

Thanks WmDev. Works fine.

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rvenable