This brings up the all new image creation tools: To create the adaptive icon we right click on the res folder in the project view in Android Studio, and select New | Image Asset: I found a royalty-free background image in a complementary colour to the predominant green of the foreground component: The bottom right edge looks weird but, don’t worry, this won’t be visible in the final icon. While the launcher doesn’t do anything yet, there may be some interesting stuff coming soon…įor the foreground of the adaptive icon I’m using a version of the Styling Android logo with a long shadow effect:
This enables the launcher to do some funky effects. The main concept of adaptive icons is that the foreground and background layers are separate. We’ll look at how I went about creating the new adaptive form of this icon. For these sample apps, I like to use an appropriate Styling Android launcher icon. I would therefore suggest a quick read through of this article to decide whether it is worth your while implementing these just yet.Īs regular readers will be aware, the vast majority of articles on Styling Android are accompanied by a sample app which demonstrates the concepts being discussed. While the documentation already provides an explanation of the icon tools within Android Studio, it is these that we’ll focus on to see how they can provide assistance even for legacy icons.īefore we continue it is worth pointing out that there a currently really big pain point with backwards compatibility which we’ll get to at the end. There is already a good explanation of Adaptive Icons in the official documentation which give some explanations of why Adaptive Icons have been introduced, and hint at some of the ways that they will be used going forward.
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