This free tool lets you create apps using a variety of templates, right in the browser. Android Studio itself also has a feature called Image Asset Studio. While customizing icons creates more design opportunities for users, it also opens up more possibilities and more ways to make money for developers. In theory this could be an easy way to make some money as a developer: just design some icons and then sell them as an app!
Unfortunately, this is a case of reality failing to meet expectations. Most tutorials are at least a few years old, and there are no guides published by ADW, Nova, and so on.
Most templates available on GitHub are likewise severely outdated and difficult to reverse engineer. By far the best example I have been able to find after a lot of digging is the open source IconShowcase-Dashboard, which is available in its entirety on GitHub. To summarize: first, you will need to set intent filters in your manifest file for the launchers you want to support.
This will allow your app to listen out to the intents used by those launchers when the user tries to install an icon pack. An example from a different project can be found here. A full list is here. Key among these is appfilter. You will do this with the following line:. It is best practice to name the images using the package names of the apps you want them to represent using underscore in place of period.
From the device home screen, tap Menu button and navigate to Nova Settings. You can, of course, also open the Nova Settings from within your app tray as well. Then, tap on "Look and feel" -- this brings up a number of options to adjust animations, speed, colors, fonts, and icons. Finally, tap "Icon Theme. Nova Launcher installs one, but this will largely be made up by the icons you've already downloaded. Select the one you want, then touch the Back button until you once again arrive at the home screen with its new icons.
That's it! No mess, no fuss. Even more settings Once you've got a new icon pack installed on your smartphone, you should definitely play around with other launcher settings. Make icons larger, add more rows to the home screen, and adjust the transition when you swipe among home screens.
Custom launchers can be a lot of fun and require little know-how. To go a little deeper, seasoned users can opt to also root their handset and flash a custom ROM. As a rather painless procedure that rids devices of pre-installed apps and services, it can also provide a top-to-bottom makeover.
Have you installed a custom launcher or icon pack? Which combination do you most enjoy? I'm always on the hunt for something new, so please do leave a comment or suggestion below. Now, this is serious business folks. There are free icon packs, there are paid icon packs, there are even exclusive invite only icon packs. No joking. The steps to install an icon pack on your Android device are pretty similar for most Launchers out there, so I will only look at a couple today.
Once you learn the theory of the steps involved, I am confident that you will find the procedure easy enough on your own Launcher. So, I will start with Apex and Nova Launchers , because, as I say, they are two of the most supported Launchers out there for icon packs.
Like most quality Launchers, Apex Launcher can have a new icon pack set up and running in just a few quick clicks. Open Apex Settings. If you are not sure where to access Apex settings, look for the three-dots menu in your app drawer. Select the check boxes of the elements that you wish installed.
As you see, many icon packs are more than just icons, with wallpaper, fonts and more included. Nova Launcher is also very easy to work with, you are again just a few quick clicks away from your new looks.
Open Nova Settings. If you are not sure where to access Nova settings, look for the three-dots menu in your app drawer. Sound familiar? Head on back to your Homescreen and app drawer to see your new icon pack in action. So, these icon packs come with an individual image file for each and every app? Yes, well, maybe. I am sure you noticed in your search for the perfect icon pack that many have icons for only a few hundred of the most popular apps out there.
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