I have three different applications, all of which I am using the same style to create icons. Right-click mipmap > New > Image Asset
Using these settings:
But two icons have shrunk to the center of a round icon (blue and green) and one has the full icon as a square (Red) Which is I want.
When I look in Finder at the icons themselves they look normal.
Any ideas?
Read the Adaptive Icons Documentation. If you target 26+, you need to provide adaptive launcher icons or the launcher will place your default icon fully within the mask of the launcher icon background. Notice that Gmail also has the white circle around its icon in your screenshot.
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so I want to make icon for push notification. say for example I want to use the android image below as notification icon
https://p7.hiclipart.com/preview/135/689/279/android-computer-icons-logo-android.jpg
so I try to make it using Android asset studio. but the image generated from this Android Asset studio is completely white like this
what should I do ? is there any image requirement for this ?
Use Transparent Images
The icons generated will be totally solid color (dark grey or white will be used on the device depending on theme).
The icon you add should only contain the "shape" you want to show as the single color. The rest should be transparent pixels.
Any non-transparent pixels will be converted to white. So if you have a square logo with no transparent pixels, it will be a giant single colored square.
Use a .png image so you can save it with transparent background.
As you can see, icons in notifications bar are white, that's why you are seeing all white
I have an app on android that create home shortcut icon.
The image of the icon is image that i set programmatically from the drawable
Now the problem is, when the shortcut was created on the home screen it's created with white background.
How do i remove that white backgroubd and set image to full size of icon?
Thank you all..
EDIT: the app i was talking about is app that i developed using android studio and just want to set full size of image when i create home shortcut
This is highly dependent on the launcher you use. The image looks like the standard google android 8+ (?) icon shape.
I theory it could be part of the icon you created but since you are asking this I doubt it.
In older versions of android the outer shape of the icons were individual, while rather cool and the outline correctly shown while dragging them etc many complained about the lack of a uniform look of all the icons in the app drawer etc.
It was introduced to make all icons seem more uniform.
Long pressing an empty space in the Google Pixel launcher for example shows a choice to go into the settings for the launcher and there you can change the shape all icons should have:
In addition to this, apps can take advantage of the various shapes and adapt to them and fill them out so to speak. See for example the Chrome icon while changing the icon shapes in the launcher settings.
Introduced in android 8: The feature is called adaptive icons.
See the docs about adaptive icons here:
https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_adaptive
That is because of adaptive icons - a feature of Android 8 and can't or shouldn't be changed. You can at best change the colour of the background.
i removed the white background from the launcher icon by following these guidelines https://developer.android.com/studio/write/image-asset-studio
a few more points
in the background layer, move the slider to resize the icon until you see no what would have been the white background.
in the manifest file, change the icons to reference the mipmap folder;
android:icon="#mipmap/yourlogo"
android:roundIcon="#mipmap/yourlogo"
I was using the following website to generate several launcher icons for my flutter app.
https://romannurik.github.io/AndroidAssetStudio/icons-launcher.html
But after I replace the original flutter icons ( file path: myapp/android/app/src/main/res ) and run my app, my icon is in a circled icon. ( check the image I attached )
My Android Virtual Device is Nexus 5X API 28.
So can anyone tell me what was wrong? And Can I use a square icon to replace this one?
The launcher that comes on the emulator forces all icons to be round. If the icon isn't already round, it will add a round border around it, like you see in that screenshot.
This isn't something you can change. If you want your icon to be square, use a different launcher. It's ultimately up to the user how their icons display.
You may want to consider implementing adaptive icons, so if a user does use circle or squircle icons and their icon pack/launcher forces all icons to be round, it at least won't look terrible.
I am using a .png image for the icon of my Android app. The problem is the image dimensions (aspect ratio) is not preserved when displaying the icon. For example the circle image is distorted to an oval shape when set as the app icon.
You're probably referring to the launcher icon, right?
According to Making Beautiful Android App Icons, the launcher icon should be square. I had a launcher icon that was not square, and it got stretched (distorted) into a square in the launcher on some devices. The solution I found was to add more (transparent) area on the sides to make it square.
By default android.R.drawable.ic_menu_delete is semi-transparent so that the color of the action bar will show through the icon.
If I wanted the ic_menu_delete icon to be solid white to match my other icons, is there a way to do this other than image editing software?
You could create a CustomDrawable that would draw stuff without the transparency but it sounds to me way more work than head over to android asset studio select the icon and download.