How to change the icon of your Android app

This is just a small follow-up post to The easiest way to create nice icons for Android apps. Say, if you follow that guide, and have made an icon to represent your app, how do you use it? If you have one icon image, or three icon images (one for each screen density, ldpi, mdpi and hdpi, like in the guide), you put your icon files in the res/drawable folder where they belong. Depending on what API level you

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The easiest way to create nice icons for Android apps

In this article I will show you a very easy way to create nice looking icon drawables you can use in your Android applications. Using this method we can easily skip through the difficult and time-consuming parts of creating icons. Yes, I know this method does not work for everyone, some Android developers have their own designer and so on, but for a small and simple app, this will definateley do! The problem Creating icons for Android apps may sound

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