This post assumes you already have a PNG version of your icon’s subject and won’t go in-depth into making that icon. Adaptive icons solve these discrepancies by creating a layering system, where the actual subject of your icon sits on a different layer that gets overlayed on top of a round or square icon surface.

Some devices prefer round icons, whereas others might favor a rounded rectangle type design. Their use as a new icon format is to cater to the different shape varieties that device manufacturers like to include in their Android version. So I might’ve been living with a horrible icon for a while now. Ugly springboard much? The story behind adaptive iconsĪdaptive icons were introduced in Android 8.0 (Oreo, or API Level 26) already. So if you want to get started, you can probably gather a lot of the code needed from there. So my goal for this post is to describe how we can fix this! The code for this can be found in this PR on the GitHub repo. You can tell in the screenshot of the springboard below that one icon kind of stands out a lot. I came across the issue of my Android icons not looking very fly when I was working on my MVP app. I noticed I hadn’t blogged for a while either, so it’s time to kill a few birds with this one little stone in my hand, eh?

Recently I’ve picked up a few little projects again after having been on a hiatus of sorts.

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