Android Question Using Adaptive Icons with Request Pin Shortcut

[DawningTruth]

With reference to:

Adaptive Icons

Adaptive Icons

Updated instructions are available here: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/adaptive-icons-simple-instructions-and-tips.123843/ Starting from Android 8 apps should include an adaptive icon. Without it the icon will appear as a small icon inside the larger template: (B4A designer still...

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And

Erel's Add Pinned Shortcut script

Add pinned shortcut

This code shows a dialog that lets the user add a shortcut on the home screen. You can modify the intent and add extra keys and values which can later be used by your app. Activity_Resume will be called when the shortcut is clicked. You can get the intent with Activity.GetStartingIntent...

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The Add Pinned Shortcut Script requires an Icon image as BitMap.

If you are using Adaptive Icons how do you access the correct icon image.

I assume it is something like:

iconImage = LoadBitmap(...)

Any suggestions?

 

[Erel]

It is not related to the resources drawable. You can use any image file you like:

iconImage = LoadBitmap(File.DirAssets, "SomeImage.png")

 

[DawningTruth]

Thx @Erel

If I wanted to pull the icon image from the Resources Drawable for consistency reasons with other apps on the device.

How would I do that?

 

[AnandGupta]

Thx @Erel

If I wanted to pull the icon image from the Resources Drawable for consistency reasons with other apps on the device.

How would I do that?

Erel means, "you can also keep your adaptive icon file in assets folder and use it". No problem there.

Regards,

Anand

 

[DawningTruth]

Erel means, "you can also keep your adaptive icon file in assets folder and use it". No problem there.

Regards,

Anand

Thx Anand,

My concern is that the shape of my icon image on the home page may be different to the particular image shapes on the user's phone for instance:

I may choose an icon like this:

And the users phone may have icons like this:

 

[AnandGupta]

As per I understand, the adaptive icon is for display on home screen of phone. The apps icon can be different from it, but must be consistent in all places like desktop, web, phone etc.

Check other apps in your phone, they follow this rule.

Regards,

Anand

 

[DawningTruth]

As per I understand, the adaptive icon is for display on home screen of phone. The apps icon can be different from it, but must be consistent in all places like desktop, web, phone etc.

Check other apps in your phone, they follow this rule.

Regards,

Anand

Thx Anand,

This is for creating an Add To Home button in the app.

 

[DawningTruth]

It looks like there is a way to do this, but it is quite involved. Essentially you have to convert a drawable to a bitmap. I therefore decided to keep it simple. I used the largest image generated by Android Studio and it added it to my home screen.

So did not use adaptive icons on my home.