Questions tagged [android-icons]

Android comes with detailed guidelines and default Icon packs for applications developers to ensure readability and clarity even at small sizes. This tag covers this android aspect.

Android comes with detailed guidelines and default Icon packs for applications developers to ensure readability and clarity even at small sizes. This tag covers this android aspect.

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Android - Launcher Icon Size

For HDPI, XHDPI, etc. what should be the ideal size of the launcher icon? Should I have to create 9-Patch images for the icon to scale automatically, or would it be better to create separate icons?
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Standard Android menu icons, for example refresh

The Android SDK offers the standard menu icons via android.R.drawable.X. However, some standard icons, such as ic_menu_refresh (the refresh icon), are missing from android.R. Is there any way to get the original icons, maybe by extracting them from…
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Adjust icon size of Floating action button (fab)

The new floating action button should be 56dp x 56dp and the icon inside it should be 24dp x 24dp. So the space between icon and button should be 16dp.
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How to change the icon of an Android app in Eclipse?

I am developing an app using Eclipse IDE Juno and Android SDK. How do I change my app's icon?
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What's the correct size icon for drawable-xxhdpi?

As we know, the correct sized icon: * drawable-ldpi (120 dpi, Low density screen) - 36px x 36px * drawable-mdpi (160 dpi, Medium density screen) - 48px x 48px * drawable-hdpi (240 dpi, High density screen) - 72px x 72px * drawable-xhdpi (320 dpi,…
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How to import set of icons into Android Studio project

I downloaded collection of icons from Android Developers center Each icon in this collection is ordered in forlders according to its resolution: drawable-hdpi, drawable-mdpi, drawable-xhdpi, drawable-xxhdpi. Is there a way to import all the 4 icon's…
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How to change option menu icon in the action bar?

How to change the index icon of option menu? I mean icon (3). Here is my code: @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater(); inflater.inflate(R.menu.options, menu); return…
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Toolbar icon tinting on Android

I've noticed that using AppCompat themes, default toolbar icons get tinted by the attribute colorControlNormal in my style. As you…
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Material Design icon colors

Which color should be the "dark" material icon? On the official documentation (https://www.google.com/design/spec/style/icons.html#icons-system-icons at the bottom) it is 54 % black (grey), but all downloads of the material icons are either white or…
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Android status bar expects icons of size 25x25dp while guidelines recommend 32x32dp. Who is wrong?

According to android icon design guidelines (here, see table #1), developer needs to provide status bar icons of next sizes: Status Bar 24 x 24 px (LDPI) 32 x 32 px (MDPI) 48 x 48 px (HDPI) While my measurements show that status bar always has…
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"Android Asset Studio" adds extra space when I upload my .png icons, but doesn't when it uses its internal cliparts. Why?

I'm trying to create some nice icons for some Android APP I'm dealing with, and someone directed me to the "Android Asset Studio", that nice online tool which creates full packs of icons ready to be deployed onto my (horridly) fragmented Android…
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Android icon generator for actionbar and notification not working (grey shape)

I found this Asset Studio to generate icons. It works fine for the launcher icon but for action bar or notification icons it is not working. I put in my png file and want to generate the icons, but Asset Studio is only generating gray circles. Is…
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Legacy icon does not show when using adaptive icon

I just converted my app icon to be compatible with android o's adaptive icons using the Image Asset Studio in android studio when I run my project now on my device running API 25 I get the default green android icon and not my icon. this is my…
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How to provide different launcher icon per product flavour

I have a project defined by build.gradle file buildscript { repositories { mavenCentral() } dependencies { classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.5.6' } } apply plugin: 'android' dependencies { compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include:…
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Android xxx-hdpi real devices

I'm gonna release my app, it's a 1.2Mb apk that includes about 120 icons in 4 different formats (ldpi, mdpi, hdpi, x-hdpi). If I add xx-dpi and xxx-hdpi icons the apk grows bigger and loading time increases. There are many entry-level devices out…
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