#Create app icons with image asset studio android#

If your app doesn’t support android version 8.0 or above, create legacy icon only for your app.Īfter opening Image Asset Studio, follow the steps below to create the legacy icons for your android app. The Launcher Icons are stored in the res/mipmap-density folder. It also creates the web icons(512 x 512 px) that represents our app on the Google Play Store.

#Create app icons with image asset studio for android#

Image Asset Studio provides the option to create these adaptive icons as well as the legacy icons for Android 8.0 below. Android 8.0 (Oreo) and above supports Adaptive Icons and can be displayed in different shapes across various platforms. Launcher Icons represent our app in the device home screen, on the app list screen, in the Google Play Store and everywhere else.

Set the string and select the font to use it. It will create these text-based icons in PNG format in respective drawable-density folders.

You can use the fonts installed on your computer to generate the icons out of the text strings. Click on the clip art icon to get the dialog with icon set. You can select the icons from the list of Google Material Design Icons provided in the dialog. Set the path of your custom image if you select this. You can use custom images of PNG (recommended), JPG or GIF (avert) format and adjust it to create icons. The icon appears on the right side, in the preview panel.

You can select the following Asset Type.

notification icon as per your requirement.

Launcher icon which may be Adaptive and Legacy Launcher Icon (if your app supports Android 8.0 or above) or just the Legacy Launcher Icon(for Android version less than or equal to 7.1).

Right-click on the res folder and choose New -> Image Asset.

In the Project Window, select the project hierarchy.

#Create app icons with image asset studio how to#

Let’s see how to create each one of them. It provides a preview of all the icons that will be created, in different shapes, with options to edit them. Image Asset Studio helps to create all these icons for all screen densities and stores them in respective density folders. No matter if you are a good designer, creating each of these is tedious! Here is a list of icon/image sizes that you need to create for different screen densities, for each image that you use in your application. Notification Icon: represents your app notification when a user is outside your app.ActionBar Icon & Tab Icon: representing actions in the ActionBar and Tabs of the app.Launcher Icon: represents your app and the first thing that user sees.Application icon in Android includes the following, It can be used to generate app icons for all the screen densities in one go, using custom images, material design icons as well as text strings.

#Create app icons with image asset studio zip file#

After uploading, you can download a zip file containing the five different sizes of image in the res/drawable- density folders.Image Asset Studio is a tool introduced in Android Studio 3. The five different sizes of image mdpi(48×48), hdpi(72×72), xhdpi(96×96), xxhdpi(144×144), and xxxhdpi(192×192) will be created in the res/mipmap- density folders.Ĥ- If you need sizes (dimensions) different from above, you can use this website to upload your PNG image of biggest size that will be used in xxxhdpi. For me, I use this and sometimes this Ģ- In Android Studio (I'm using version 3.1.3), open Image Asset from app > res (right click) > New > Image Assetģ- In the Path, choose the location of the transparent image which you downloaded from the online website, and make the other options as shown, then Next, then Finish. These are the steps I took to make an image transparent:ġ- I used an online website which makes the image transparent, there are a lot of them.