Icons To be Used In Windows Phone 8

Question

I am working on an API based application for Windows 8. I have a slight confusion. I'm making images to be used in the tiles. I've made some using this guide: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/hh202948%28v=vs.105%29.aspx.

Now when I open the project and check Assets/Icons Folder, I observed different sizes which were as follows:

FlipCycleTileLarge    691 * 336
FlipCycleTileMedium   336 * 336
FlipCycleTileSmall    159 * 159
IconicTileMediumLarge 134 * 202
IconicTileSmall       71  * 110

Can anyone tell me the exact number of images and their resolutions with their corresponding names which are to be put in the folder so the app is not rejected.

Note: My app doesn't provide anything like Live Tiles.

Answer 1

You need to read the App Submission Requirements for Windows Phone. Section 4.7 gives you the list of images that are required. Read the full section for all the details but at a high level you will need:

• App list image
  • For Windows Phone OS 7.1 , a 62 x 62 pixel PNG image.
  • For Windows Phone 8 , a 99 x 99 pixel PNG image.
• Default Tile images
  • For Windows Phone OS 7.1 , a PNG image for the medium Tile size. For more information about the image dimensions, see Windows Phone OS 7.1 Tile template.
  • For Windows Phone 8 , a PNG or JPEG image for the medium and small Tile sizes. The image dimensions depend on the Tile template you've chosen for your default Tile. For more information about the dimensions of the images, see the corresponding Tile template topic: Flip Tile template for Windows Phone 8, Iconic Tile template for Windows Phone 8, or Cycle Tile template for Windows Phone 8.
• Windows Phone Store app image
  • A 300 x 300 pixel, non-transparent PNG image.

More details on the tile images are here.

Answer 2

If someone comes across this post and has the issue I had where XAP packaging failed and that VS2012 can not find the file then check for spaces in the file name. I had the issue where my tiles were "tilename 99.png" and it keep giving me the XAP packaging failed message. So I finally changed the file name to "tilename_99.png" and it worked.

Hope this helps someone in the same predicament.