Background images rendering problems on wp7

Question

In my WP7 app i'm having problems with background images rendering badly. It looks like the images are rendered using 8-bit colors, and in general looks ugly. They're .png. Heres a screenshot of how it looks in the app: screenshot

Does anyone know what causes this and how it can be fixed?

Answer 1

Have you tried to enabled 32bit colour?

To do this, open up your WMAppManifest.xml and in the App element add BitsPerPixel="32"

<Deployment xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsphone/2009/deployment" AppPlatformVersion="7.1">
  <App BitsPerPixel="32" xmlns="" ProductID="{25aef417- 

Not sure if this will resolve the issue, but the fact your using a .png image and only having 16bit colour could be related.