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Mark Szabo
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Aug 10, 2019

How to customize Start Menu tiles?

I know that with the PWA appx package generator (using Visual Studio) you can customize how the tile should look like in the Start Menu. Now that Edge (Chromium) supports one-click PWA installation...
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Mark Szabo
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johnjansen sure: https://aka.ms/carwash

Please keep in mind that you'll need to sign in with a Microsoft corp account (@microsoft.com) or else the app won't be displayed.

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johnjansen
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Aug 22, 2019

Mark Szabo it looks like you are explicitly using the circle icon for your tile as described in the manifest.json file. What I think you want to do is grab the icon files from the previous PWA and put them in your images folder and then put that new image into the manifest file. Does that make sense? I may not be describing it well...

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    Mark Szabo
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    Aug 22, 2019

    johnjansen yeah, it absolutelly makes sense, the issue is that it will change on Android and iOS as well, where the circle icon is the one the users expect. So I'm searching for a way to modify only the windows tile's appearance.

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      Graymatter
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      Jan 05, 2020

      Mark Szabo I have the same issue and requirement.  Have you found a solution?

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        Mark Szabo
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        Jan 06, 2020

        Graymatter no, as far as I understand this is not possible. You can have a nice Android design OR a nice Start menu tile, but not both.

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