You can technically drag and drop your APK and the replacement icon simultaneously, but we’re going to do the APK by itself first just so you can see how different the icon sizes really are.Īfter you drop the APK, click on the “Size Profile” drop down menu on the right hand side of the application. Drag and drop your APK file onto the main pane. Upon first run, you’ll see a blank editor.
Installing the New Icon with APK Icon Editorĭownload the APK Icon Editor (we recommend the portable version, packaged in a ZIP file). For both the manual and automated methods, you’ll want a PNG file with a transparent background. For widely used apps like Chrome, it’s simply a matter of searching Google Images for a match. Reference the listing for your device (we’ll be replacing the icon for a Kindle Fire HDX 8.9″) and then seek out an icon at least that size or larger.
MDPI size, 48 x 48 is considered the baseline and all icons are proportionally adjusted from that base size (LDPI is 0.5 times the size, XXHDPI is 4.0 the size, etc.) As we mentioned above, the largest size, XXXHDPI is still far too small to look good on the Kindle’s launcher carousel.Īmazon’s carousel apps use a much bigger icon here are the icon sizes based on the Kindle Fire developer specifications: Android icons, per Android Developer standards, come in the following five default sizes: Understanding Icon Size Nomenclature and Selecting an Iconīefore we dive into swapping the icons, it helps to have a sense of the nomenclature surrounding the icons. (Linux/OS X users will need to take a more complicated route and use APK Manager, a tool we will not be walking you through using.) While we’re using the Kindle Fire to showcase these techniques (because the high-res carousel launcher makes low-res icons painfully obvious), you can use these tricks to upgrade the icons of any app.
While this doesn’t affect the performance of the installed applications one bit, it does make their icons really stand out compared to the sharper Amazon supplied ones (as seen in the screenshot above) and you didn’t buy a tablet with an ultra sharp screen to look at fuzzy icons.įor our purposes, we will be updating the Chrome icon, seen above in all it’s low-res glory, to a higher resolution version using a Windows PC and the free tool APK Icon Editor. When you install an application from outside the Apps for Android store, you don’t get the pretty high-resolution icon but instead get the much smaller icon embedded in the APK file you installed.
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