I'm android application developer and I want to know how to change my android icon after downloading from Google Play.
I mean, the icon of my application which you can see on Google Play and the icon of my application which you can see on home screen of your android smartphone are different.
How can I do that?
Thanks in advance.
The 512x512 icon you upload to the developer console (when you publish the app) is the one that will be seen in Google Play. The 36x36, 48x48, 72x72, and 96x96 icons you put in your drawable resource folders are what will show up on the device homescreen/app drawer.
There's no way to change your app's Google Play image after you published it. So make sure to make it right in the first time.
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I try to upload an icon for a new android application on the google play console.
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I tried to upload the icon (also a screen) I made with GIMP, but it won't work. Without any message. Does anyone of you guys know, what's wrong with the images or how i can create a proper one?
For all, who also can't upload an app icon for the store. First you need to upload an apk, then it will work. It is kind of confusing because the tab 'Store-Entry' pops up first.
I have the following problem using android studio:
I have finished my app and everything is ok when I test it on my android smartphone with the emulator connected by USB.
Then I have sent the apk to a friend for testing and he found out that there was no application icon on the screen.
What can be the reason?
Is the icon only visible in the apk in google play store?
How can I be sure that it is visible when publishing it in the play store?
Or is the reason that I have not defined a round icon but only a rectangular?
Is it necessary to define a round icon (which does not look well for my icon)?
If I do not define a round Icon have I to define the rounded_icon like the rectangular or can I leave the basic android icon or have I to delete the rounded icon property?
I know a lot of questions but arising only from one.
Thank you for help.
bernd
If you want to send to other people your app then you need to Build apk and then sent to anybody
Go to Build/Build apk
and then build that app and sent to anybody
they can install app like any other app.
Their is no problem on defining only round icon
TO generate only square icon click on
new/image asset/
and then go to legacy to generate only square icon
A quiet basic question: I'm developing an app which should also run on the Fire TV. Is there anyway to add a icon to that launcher?
I know I can go the long way over the settings to start my app, but that is not very handy.
I'm also confused how I need to create my icon for that launcher a standard launcher icon is wrong, because Amazon uses differnt icon sizes. I found some confusing informations that the launcher icons come from the amazon store only. Is that true?
if you are sideloading your apk (adb install or pushing from your development environment) then on FireTV you won't see an icon in the launcher for your app, as you rightly point out you will only see it from the Settings | Applications | Manage All Applications menu.
The only way to have an icon appear there is to either submit and publish it, or use Live App Testing if you're not ready to submit and publish publicly but want to invite some beta testers (you can do multiple submissions through Live App Testing before going live)
When you submit your app (either for Live App Testing, or a full submission) there is an option in the developer portal to upload the various assets - icons, screenshots, descriptions, pricing etc
The default icon for any android app is ic_launcher.png. It's usually located in all the different drawable folder buckets (drawable-mdpi, hdpi, xhdpi). You can change the icon, if you are interested, by placing a new icon in one of the buckets and then modifying the android:icon attribute under the application tag in the AndroidManifest.xml file.
My application do not have launcher icon. Can I upload the apk to market or is it compulsory to have launcher icon in apk ?
Launcher icon is the icon that is shown on your device's launcher. And your app may not have any entry point for user, so such icon is not mandatory. However if you refer to the icon you need to upload to Google Play - then yes you have to have it. And people usually put Launcher icon here as they have it already
You need to have some sort of icon, even if it's a default, but if you're uploading to the Play Store, you definitely want an icon so that users can identify your app.
You CANNOT upload the apk to market without icon. So yes it is compulsory.
You need to add an icon to your APK while uploading App to google play
I have developed an Android app. I launched it in different phones, and the icons are my icons. But when I upload the APK file to Google Play, it appears as the Android default icon. In my resource file there are some Android default icons named "ic_launcher", but I do not link them. What can be the problem?
Even if you don't link them Play Store will use those icons if you have not provided anything else.
Search ic_launcher in your project and replace that with the icon you want to show. Remember Launcher icons for display on Google Play must be 512x512 pixels.
see this guide for designing icons.
Check and modify the file AndroidManifest.xml:
<application
android:icon="#drawable/ico_launcher"
android:label="#string/app_name"