#Android studio icons install
#Android studio icons android

#Android studio icons install

Now you should see Square icon when you install the app.

#Android studio icons android

Android Studio 1. (ic_launcher_round.png, ic_launcher.png, icon.png) all of them are the same imagesĪfter making this changes, rebuild the app. From Lollipop (API 21) onwards, Android defines the VectorDrawable class, for defining drawables based on vector graphics. Now my ic_launcher_round is Squared icons. I copied ic_launcher images(Generally the Square icons) to ic_launcher_round. I deleted the ic_launcher_round images generated by the android studio. I used the android studio to generate adaptive and legacy icons… One of the ways to achieve this is (Not sure if it is the right/best way to do it)Įnsure the ic_launcher_round images are Squared one. If your target SDK is 26 and android device version is 8, the app icon will be round. I think we can assume that every other app on the Google Play that displays there with square logo will look bad when installed on phones with modern versions of launchers, especially api >=26. The red object in the corner has ben cut off. Just as an example, I've downloaded Bytecoin app OP mentioned, and this is how it looks like on my phone, Android 7.0: In the comments section OP mentioned some apps that do currently have square icons in their newest versions and that turned out to actually be a small UX design flaw of its developers.

Any other type of icon can be treated as 'legacy' and used only for compatability reasons when targeting APIs below 26. Here you can find official recommendations for designing Android apps' launcher icons: and here you can read about the most current approach in a subject of Android apps' icons: Adaptive ones. I'm afraid you will have to adapt to this situation and make your square app's logo a little bit smaller and leave some empty space around it to allow end user's launcher app to draw a circle around this logo. It would significantly harm its user experience. I don't think you can expect any currently available major launcher application to display some apps' icons as round and some as square. Īlso the purpose of the Android Studio's wizard you used was to help you generate ready-to-use drawable files and it was just to save your time on making these drawables all by yourself in some image editor.Īny drawable set inside XML manifest file for being your app's round icon will be rounded a t the end and that is no matter how it actually looks. Only sometimes you would be able to do something like that by utilizing some form of Inter Process Communication ( IPC) offered by your OS, assuming of course that the process you want to communicate with is also 'willing to talk' with you. The 'launcher' is just another app, like yours, but it is not your app - it is separated completely from it, and you can't normally influence any process that is separated from your app's process, OS will forbid that. Your app's icon will be rounded when a launcher decides to make it rounded.