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How to Customize UWP Applications via Manifest Edits

Requirements
 A Windows PC (Minimum : Windows 7 SP1)

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Table Of Contents……………………………………………………………………….

1) Introduction Page 03

2) Preparations Page 03

3) How to Change Application Display name Page 04

 Change App List Display name Page 04

 Change Tile Display name Page 05

4) How to Change Tile Colors Page 06

5) How to Change Splash Screen Color Page 08

6) How to Add a Splash Screen Page 10

7) How to Repack the Modified Application Page 12

8) #Related Guides Page 13

9) Additional Notes Page 14

10) Credits Page 14

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Introduction

Welcome to the Manifest Edit Guide.

You can change the Manifest of the Applications to change their appearances to your liking if the default
settings are not so pleasing to you.

#Beware : Whatever changes done to the manifest needs a full repack and a reinstallation of the app
using the repacked Modified Package.

Preparations

If you have the Appx/Bundle of the Application you are going to modify ;

 Rename it to .zip
 Extract the whole contents of the Package to anywhere in your PC (If it’s AppxBundle file,
then open the “ARM” Appx File and extract it’s contents)

If you extracted it from your Phone using Apps Data Manager or Windows Universal tools ;

 Extract the ZIP package to anywhere in your PC.

Either way, what you have to do is open the “AppxManifest.xml” file which is among the Package Data
using any Text Editor.

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How to Change Application Display name

There are two options for this.

Change App List Display name

Using this edit, the Application name which is displayed in alphabetical App list will be changed.

> Open “AppxManifest.xml” file

> Find “DisplayName” inside the “VisualElements” tag.

HINT !

Use “CTRL + F” to find this if you are having a hard time locating it in manifest file

Change the text inside the quotes (Highlighted area in the pic) to the name you want to give to the
application.

Then save the file & proceed to next edits or Repack the Package to Install.

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Change Tile Display name

Using this edit, you can edit the name of the app shown in Medium & Wide tiles of the Application you
want to edit.

> Open “AppxManifest.xml” file

> Find “ShortName” inside the “VisualElements” tag.

HINT !

Use “CTRL + F” to find this if you are having a hard time locating it in manifest file

Change the text inside the quotes (Highlighted area in the pic) to the name you want to give to the
application.

Then save the file & proceed to next edits or Repack the Package to Install.

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How to Change App Tile Colors

This manifest edit will let you change the App List & Start Tile Colors of an Application.

NOTICE !

This edit will work only if the Tile Assets in “Assets” folder are Transparent

> Open “AppxManifest.xml” file

> Find “BackgroundColor” inside the “VisualElements” tag

HINT !

Use “CTRL + F” to find this if you are having a hard time locating it in manifest file

Now let’s see what values you can put in there ;

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Transparent (System Accent)

The Application will follow the System accent, means the tiles will match with the System Accent Color.

How to :- Just type “transparent” as the BackgroundColor

Value

Color names
You can also set the background color of the tiles to a common
color name.

How to :- Just type “cOLORnAME” like black, white, red, etc….

IMPORTANT NOTE !

When entering either “transparent” or a color name, use all lower case to type !!

Hex Color Codes

If you want to go with more advanced color options, then Hex
Codes is what you need.

You can find the hex color codes with a single web search or use the
attached W10 accent values below.

How to :- Simple type “#hEXcODE” as the BackgroundColor Value

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How to Change Splash Screen Color

This edit will let you specify the Color of the Splash Screen of the Application.

NOTICE !

Not every apps have splash screens, but you can add one to every app, see the next topic.

> Open “AppxManifest.xml” file

> Find “BackgroundColor” inside the “uap:SplashSreen” tag (see pic carefully)

HINT !

Use “CTRL + F” to find this if you are having a hard time locating it in manifest file

Now let’s see what values you can put in there ;

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Transparent (System Theme)

The Application will follow the System theme, means the splash screen will match with the System
Theme ; Black for Dark Theme & White to Light Theme

How to :- Just type “transparent” as the BackgroundColor

Value

Color names
You can also set the background color of the Splash Screen to a
common color name.

How to :- Just type “cOLORname” like black, white, red, etc….

IMPORTANT NOTE !

When entering either “transparent” or a color name, use all lower case to type !!

Hex Color Codes

If you want to go with more advanced color options, then Hex
Codes is what you need.

You can find the hex color codes with a single web search or use the
attached W10 accent values below.

How to :- Simple type “#hEXcODE” as the BackgroundColor Value

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How to add a Splash Screen to Apps

Most apps including In-Built Apps like Phone, Messaging, people, etc.. don’t have Splash Screens, but
with this edit, you can add one to any UWP app you want.

> Open “AppxManifest.xml” file

> Find “</uap:DefaultTile>”

Copy and paste this line right under </uap:DefaultTile>

<uap:SplashScreen Image="Assets\WideTile.png" BackgroundColor="transparent" />

NOTICE !

The two lines should be perfectly aligned to each other with equal spaces.

Now need to change it’s values to fit with the Application ;

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SplashScreen Image
<uap:SplashScreen Image="Assets\WideTile.png" BackgroundColor="transparent" />

Since the app doesn’t have Splash Screen Assets, we are gonna set WideTile assets as the Splash Screen
Assets.

> Go to “Assets” folder and find the WideTile PNG of the Application.

> Copy it’s name, cut down the “.scale-xxx” part & paste it in AppxManifest (Change the path too if it’s in
a sub folder inside “Assets” folder)

Example :- Alarms app has the WideTile Assets in “Assets” folder with the name of
“AlarmsWideTile.scale-200.PNG”.

Then the value will be ;

<uap:SplashScreen Image="Assets\AlarmsWideTile.png" BackgroundColor="transparent" />

BackgroundColor
<uap:SplashScreen Image="Assets\WideTile.png" BackgroundColor="transparent" />

Then you might want to change Splash Screen Color.

Look in the “How to Change Splash Screen Color” heading to modify it if needed.

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How to Repack the Modified Application

Following any of the above Manifest Edits, you are going to need to repack the package to a
Appx/Bundle File to be able to Install it in your Device

Then you can use that package to install that modified Application to any device.

You can get to know about repacking via the below guide.

How to Repack W10M Applications

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#Related Guides

The below Guide will explain the easiest procedure to change Application Assets.

That means the procedure in the Guide doesn’t need ;

 A PC
 Bootloader Unlock NOR Mass Storage Mode
 Uninstalling the app.

How to Change UWP Application Tile Assets

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Additional Notes

 To Install the modified Packages, you will need to Interop Unlock your device.

Credits

 Fadil Fadz for AppxPacker

Thank you !

______Lasitha Samarasinghe______

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