Set App Icon

Your app needs two kinds of icons:

• An adaptive icon, used by Android 8.0 and newer. It has two layers, a foreground and a background, so each launcher can give it its own shape.
• Legacy icons, plain images used by older Android versions.

The easy way: Image Asset

Android Studio can generate every icon size from one image:

1. In the Project panel, right-click app/src/main/res and select New → Image Asset.
2. Keep Launcher Icons (Adaptive and Legacy) selected and ic_launcher as the name.
3. Pick your foreground and background images, check the preview, and click Next, then Finish.

Android Studio warns you that some files will be overwritten. That’s expected: they’re the sample’s icons.

Tip

New to adaptive icons?

The adaptive icons guide explains the sizes and safe zones.

The manual way

If you prefer to create the files yourself, replace these.

Adaptive icon

Layer	Folder	File
Foreground	app/src/main/res/drawable-v24	ic_launcher_foreground.xml
Background	app/src/main/res/drawable	ic_launcher_background.xml

You can use a vector drawable (overwrite the .xml file) or an image (delete the .xml file and add a .png with the same name).

Legacy icons

In app/src/main/res there are five folders that start with mipmap-. In each one, replace ic_launcher.png (the regular icon) and ic_launcher_round.png (the round icon) with your own, using these sizes:

Folder	Icon size
mipmap-mdpi	48 × 48 px
mipmap-hdpi	72 × 72 px
mipmap-xhdpi	96 × 96 px
mipmap-xxhdpi	144 × 144 px
mipmap-xxxhdpi	192 × 192 px