Background on WP7 icon

Question

I have created an icon for my WP7 application. The icon got a transparent background and the theme on my WP7 device is set to the blue theme. When deployed to the device my icon got a dark gray background instead of the blue from the theme.

Any ideas how to adopt the theme background color as background to the application icon?

Answer 1

Icons used for tiles support transparency but those used in the application list don't - disappointingly.

Answer 2

Microsoft hidden the support for it. It requires the use of the namespace "http://dbPreProvisioning", and the TemplateType2 which both aren't available to developers.

Try for example, to use the following IconPath:

<IconPath IsRelative="false" IsResource="true">res://StartMenu!AppIconSettings.png</IconPath>

Here you can see the icon is the same as the Settings icon above, but the transparency isn't applied.

There's also a "UsePlatformTheme" property in the native Microsoft version

<Provisioning
    xmlns="http://dbPreProvisioning"
    RuntimeType="Native"
    Title="Settings"
    Version="1.0"
    Genre=""
    ProductID="{5B04B775-356B-4AA0-AAF8-6491FFEA5601}"
    UsePlatformTheme="true"
    SingleInstanceHost="true">

    <IconPath xmlns="">res://StartMenu!AppIconSettings.png</IconPath>

    ...snip...