Android 3.0 Launcher

[Arnold Gilgen]

Its the second one from the left. I've tried all kinds of things to get it to be bigger. I've tried several different source images to generate the icon, 512x512 and 900x900, but no matter what I do I can't get it to generate an icon as large as the others. I'm sure I'm missing something stupid here. This is my flutter_launcher_icons config:

I would recommend you to use -launcher.html to generate your launcher icon : you'll be able to reduce padding to get an icon as big as possible. When you hit download, this will generate a zip archive containing a res folder with a subfolder for each size.

Let's then put manually the Android launcher icon :In your config, put android: false so the flutter_launcher_icons plugins stops generating icons for android, and paste your generated subfolders in yourproject/android/res

TBG suggestion worked well. One thing to note, if you already replaced icon, your files in android "res" folder may be different from "ic_launcher" produced by IconKitchen. And your bad icones generated by Flutter will still be used during build.

I've found guidelines for launcher icon pixel sizes (but rounded corners aren't mentioned), a tool called Android Asset Studio which rounds the corners for you (but the tool provides undesirable and non-configurable padding around the edges of each icon), and another tool called Icon Slayer (but the tool creates corners that I feel are way too round, and feel very iOS).

I've also noticed that of all the apps that I personally use that have rounded corners on their launcher icons, the edge radii almost always seem to vary from icon to icon. When I place the various icons next to each other, some look pretty close, but they mostly feel just a little bit off from each other.

Check out Google's official Material Design guidelines for Icons about two thirds of the way down the page under the sub-heading Corners.

It indicates you should use a 2px radius on the corners. If go up a few sections, under the heading Content Area you'll see this is for a 24x24 px icon. You can scale up for other resolutions from there.

I can confirm that the icons on my Samsung Galaxy S10 has a radius way more than 20%. They also seem to be using rounding with curvature like Apple does, not just basic rounded corners with a tangent arc.

The app in the app launcher (drawer) should be updated, but the shortcuts won't be updated until the next refresh of the homescreen. There isn't much you can do that unfortunately, but the homescreen does refresh itself once in a while, so the new icon will eventually replace the old icon automatically.

I had the same problems and tried different approaches (one was trying to remove programatically the launcher screen's icon and the add the new one; I was able to add the new one but couldn't remove the old one; android:duplicate doesn't replace the old one only avoids to add the new icon and if trying to remove and I as far as I've researched so far was removed starting with ICS).But my conclusion is that there's an Android issue and you can find it posted here: =54546

Something similar happened to me with action bar icons. In intelliJ, I had to explicitly rebuild the project for the icon change to take effect. It's worth mentionning that the faulty icon name remained the same (I was switching from holo light to holo dark)

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Hello from France, first, excuse me for my poor English writing... I installed mobile security and i encountered difficulties to activate the antiphishing... I could not activate accessibility for the different browsers because they did not appear in the list in which there was only Eset and Microsoft launcher (which is the launcher I use on my smartphone).. . I did some tests and found that by enabling accessibility for eset and microsoft launcher, the antiphishing protection for browsers worked. Is this normal? and isn't it a security risk to have to activate the accessibility mode for the launcher? Thank you.

It is important that ESET Mobile Security has accessibility services enabled. As for the MS Launcher, it's unrelated and it's fully at your discretion if you want to continue using it and grant permissions that it needs.

unfortunately, there is a link between the two because if I don't give accessibility rights to microsoft launcher, eset mobile security's antiphishing stops working... MS launcher don't need accessibility rights to work... I haven't found any way to protect the browsers without giving accessibility rights to Microsoft launcher... I'm not sure it makes sense, from a security point of view, to give such a right to the launcher to activate antiphishing protection...

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