When generating plugin with Kiota and trying to upload the app, I got an error about missing files (icons)

[maisarissi]

Today Kiota generates all files necessary to sideload the app and have the plugin showing in Copilot.
The only exception is the icons node in manifest.json file.

Today we generate the manifest.json with the following information:

"icons": {
    "color": "color.png",
    "outline": "outline.png"
}

(both are required for the manifest file)

This works well when TTK is used to create the project, as TTK adds the following as default icons when creating the project:
color.png
outline.png

However, if I'm using Kiota only, this will cause an error as the files are not actually added to the output directory.

Expected:
I expect that Kiota will generate everything I need to upload a plugin with no errors
When re-generating, I expect Kiota will not override my current icons, whether I keep the default ones or add my customized owns

[sebastienlevert]

We should also probably with with Daniella to get custom icons for Kiota. Just to make it clear this is not TTK related.

[baywet]

We'll hold working on that until you have the graphics here.

[petrhollayms]

@maisarissi is this just about bundling the file with the standard file names as described above? Or any parametrization of these files?

What exactly shall happen here?

I expect Kiota will not override my current icons

[maisarissi]

I'm working with Daniella (design team) to get the right graphics to use and we should have an update next week.
We should just add the files to the output directory together with the other generated files when generating the plugin. No parametrization needed.

About the regeneration:
Let's assume I have generated my plugin using Kiota and I have replaced the default icon files with my customized ones. When doing any changes to the plugin (like changing endpoint selection, type of plugin or any other thing) and regenerating the plugin, the icons shouldn't be overridden/replaced with the default ones.

[maisarissi]

After internal meeting, @baywet and I agreed on having a place holder icon while waiting for the icons provided by design/marketing so we can move forward with this issue and not get blocked by public preview. Once we have the final icons ready, we can replace the place holders.
The icons to be used as place holders were shared internally.

The requirements for the icons are as below:

Color version: PNG icon. Size 192x192.
Outline version: PNG outline icon. The border color needs to be white. Size 32x32.

[baywet]

We should configure these images as resources in the assembly to avoid path management issues.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/41106851