How to set up for android icons using unity
Today I am going to share my ideas to set android app icons using Unity Edtior
Look at the Unity Edtior setting window below
PlayerSettings -> Player -> Android Tab -> Icon
you can see how to set your app icons
There are three warys to set android app icons normally
- Adaptive Icon
- Round
- Legacy
Simply Adaptive icon is Adaptive launcher icon to show various formats from various devices and can support more than android 8.0 os,api level 26
and round icon is can support circle format’s icon from android 7.1 os
Lastly legacy icon is for legacy way for how to set app icon in android
For deails you can see below links
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https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_adaptive?hl=ko
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https://docs.unity3d.com/kr/2020.3/Manual/class-PlayerSettingsAndroid.html#Icon
Adaptive Icon configuration
Adaptive Icon has two layers foreground and background
Developer prepare two images for foreground and background
System makes icon after merge two layers and mixes and removes specific part of mask
In order to support Adaptive Icon, there are good site to make icons automatic
Android Asset Studio - Launcher icon generator https://romannurik.github.io/AndroidAssetStudio/icons-launcher.html#foreground.type=clipart&foreground.clipart=android&foreground.space.trim=1&foreground.space.pad=0.25&foreColor=rgba(96%2C%20125%2C%20139%2C%200)&backColor=rgb(68%2C%20138%2C%20255)&crop=0&backgroundShape=circle&effects=none&name=ic_launcher
if you visit the site , you can make app icons correctly and properly,
after upload icon file as 1024 * 1024 size from your company desinger and the regulate your background and foreground and padding and etc values and download icons
lastly select each icons at unity editor