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Add monochrome icon for Android launchers #5881

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ThatOneCalculator opened this issue Jul 22, 2024 · 1 comment
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Add monochrome icon for Android launchers #5881

ThatOneCalculator opened this issue Jul 22, 2024 · 1 comment

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@ThatOneCalculator
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Currently, the Zulip app on Android has no monochrome icon, making it look very out of place on modern homescreens.

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gnprice commented Jul 23, 2024

Thanks for the feedback!

It looks like the feature you're using here is "themed icons". In the system settings on my Pixel 8 running Android 14, the switch to enable that feature is labeled as "Beta". Turning it on and browsing around a bit, it looks like some apps have provided these monochrome launcher icons but most apps haven't yet.

You're certainly not alone in wishing that more apps would — here's a couple of different threads of people complaining that so many apps haven't:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/17ceeiz/themed_icons_why_is_it_so_difficult/
https://www.reddit.com/r/android_beta/comments/16chny5/wasnt_a14_supposed_to_fix_themed_icons/

Anyway, for our reference when we go to implement this feature, here's the developer docs for it (which also covers the related #4211):
https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/launch/icon_design_adaptive

Because this codebase is in maintenance mode, this is a feature we'd only add in the upcoming Flutter-based app. But I definitely expect we'll implement it there at some point after that migration is complete.

@gnprice gnprice changed the title Add monochrome icon Add monochrome icon for Android launchers Jul 23, 2024
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