With Android 16 QPR2, Google introduced two important icon customization options to Pixels: icon shapes and better theming.

Use a Square Image with a Transparent Background: For optimal results, use a square image with a transparent background. You can find such images online or create them using photo editing tools.

Changing your app icons on Android is easy, but it can be non-intuitive at times. Before getting started, we recommend ...

Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1 offers improved support for themed app icons. For apps that don’t natively offer a monochrome icon, QPR2 lets the system automatically generate one for theming purposes. A new ...

Customization has been at the very core of Android OS since the beginning, basically. Android always offered more options in that regard than iOS, a lot more. Third-party launchers managed to become ...

Android offers one of the most customizable experiences on any smartphone. It gives you the freedom to customize everything from the launcher to widgets—and everything else in between—using simple ...

The beauty of Android's operating system lies in its ability to be customized and tailored to your preferences. You can switch your default launcher and change how the icon appears on your Android ...

Google debuted the ability to have themed icons on the homescreen in Android 12, designed to help go all-in on Material You theming. Now, in Android 13, third-party apps can get in on the fun of ...

Icon packs have been around for a while on Android. However, despite the myriad of Android icon packs out there, there are times when none of them suit your vogue. When this happens, your only resort ...

It’s that time of year again, where the Fall releases start to get underway, and while the Galaxy Note 7 appears to have stalled, the iPhone 7 is starting to reach customers which means that there’s ...

One of the biggest evolutions to Material You in Android 13 is support for themed icons in third-party apps, a function that’s quickly expanding to more and more apps as of late. Now, Android 13 on ...