Electron-builder: Custom AppXManifest.xml template

[evanwalsh]

• Version: 20.15.1

• Target: Windows x64 AppX

Hello! I'm a big fan of the project, but I've found myself in need of supplying a custom AppXManifest.xml. Mostly, I need to add an extension to the manifest to support electron-winstore-auto-launch. I don't see a way to currently do this.

I'm open to adding the feature myself, but I wanted to drop a line here before I tried to make a pull request.

[mccxiv]

Hey @evanwalsh , did you figure out any way to achieve this? I also need to add the auto start extension

[develar]

You can expect this feature today.

[develar]

Release will be soon. In short: nothing is required to do on your side. See addAutoLaunchExtension https://www.electron.build/configuration/appx#AppXOptions-addAutoLaunchExtension

[develar]

20.21.0

[aschultz]

It'd be great if we could get the larger ask (custom AppxManifest.xml template) implemented. That would allow devs to add Extension elements, specify the target Windows versions, and add any new elements Microsoft may introduce without requiring electron-builder explicitly add them.

[mvbn]

I agree, for example, I'm interested to have the app name on the tiles icons.

But when Microsoft will allow to enable the dark mode (for the window title bar, etc) to all apps (not only WPF), I will be interested also on this.

[jameshfisher]

Wondering whether there's any progress here - I'd also like to be able to pass a custom AppxManifest.xml, in order to work around this bug where electron-builder generates an invalid Publisher string: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/3501