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uap:ShowNameOnTiles (Windows 10)

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Describes whether Windows overlays the app’s name on top of the tile images that are shown on the Start screen.

Element hierarchy

<Package>

    <Applications>

         <Application>

              <uap:VisualElements>

                   <uap:DefaultTitle>

                        <uap:ShowNameOnTiles>

Syntax

<uap:ShowNameOnTiles>

  <!-- Child elements -->
  uap:ShowOn{1,4}

</uap:ShowNameOnTiles>

Key

{}   specific range of occurrences

Attributes and elements

Attributes

None.

Child elements

Child element Description
uap:ShowOn Describes whether Windows overlays the app’s name on top of the tile image that is shown on the Start screen.

Parent elements

Parent element Description
uap:DefaultTile The default tile that represents the app on the Start screen. This tile is displayed when the app is first installed, before it has received any update notifications. When a tile has no notifications to show, the tile reverts to this default.

Examples

This example shows how to use the ShowNameOnTiles and ShowOn elements:

<uap:ShowNameOnTiles>
    <uap:ShowOn
      Tile="square150x150Logo"/> <!-- Show app name on the 150x150 tile -->
    <uap:ShowOn
      Tile="wide310x150Logo"/> <!-- …and also on the 310x150 tile -->
</uap:ShowNameOnTiles>

Requirements

Item Value
Namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/manifest/uap/windows10