Android putting my Unity Game icons in a white circle. But not all of them

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I noticed today on my Pixel 2 that Android is now putting some of my game icons in a white circle, making my icons small and hard to read. Reading up it seems that Android now says that we should be specifying a round and non-round icon if we don’t want a round, for when it will be supported, which it’s unclear when that is. Does Unity have a way to do this? Should I just start making all of my Android icons round from now on?

Here’s a screenshot of some examples. The Simcoach folder are my games. Some are round, some are not. WyldWood is a new game, Harness Hero is months old, but the cutoff could be before it was released.

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Note, that while this is supposed to be a consistency thing by Google, there is currently no consistency yet.

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We are working on supporting adaptive icons in Unity editor. For now if you want your icons to look the same as before, in player settings select “Target API Level” lower than 26. If you were using “Automatic” option before, I’d suggest to go with API level 25.

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Targeting API Level 25 did not work for us, but we did find that using an Icon of an absurd size of 2048x2048 forced the icon to look correct on the pixel XL w/ Android 8.

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Barryrowe, I tried using a 2048x2048 icon but I still see the same problem. Can you give more details on what you changed to get this to work? Inside the generated APK I still see the largest icon is 192x192 in the res/drawable-xxxhdpi-v4/ folder, regardless of source icon size.

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Has this been updated at all?

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I second this, any update on Adaptive Icons from Unity yet?

Thanks.

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Support for adaptive icons is already available in 2018.1 beta, but it will not be backported to previous versions.

It should be fairly simple to add adaptive icon to older versions manually, though. You just need to create a Plugins/Android/res folder in you Unity project and the adaptive icon files there, the simplest way is to create a new Android studio project, set up the correct images there and copy all the “drawable” and “mipmap” folders to your Unity project.

Then change the name of mipmap-anydpi-v26 to drawable-anydpi-v26 and inside it ic_launcher.xml to app_icon.xml'. Alternatively you can stick with mipmap` and add a custom manifest with "
android:icon=" @Mipmap /ic_launcher" but then you’ll also need to provide legacy single layer icons as well.

After these steps adaptive icons should be properly loaded on devices that support it, but older Android versions would still show the legacy png icons.

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That worked, thanks so much,

Here is my file structure in case anyone else has the same problem:

Android/Plugins/res/drawable/ic_background.png ( 1536 x 1536 pixels )
Android/Plugins/res/drawable/ic_foreground.png ( 1024 x 1024 pixels )
Android/Plugins/res/drawable-anydpi-v26/app_icon.xml ( Contents below )

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

And that’s it!

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When I do this on 8.1, my icon crashes the Pixel Launcher. Has anyone else experienced this?

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I think it was related to creating the icons in raw Photoshop. I created them as image assets in Android Studio, then ported them over as detailed and it worked!!

Thanks!

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Hey I was trying to do the workaround and it did not worked.
my paths were:
Assets\Plugins\Android\res\drawable with the files: ic_background,ic_foreground
and
Assets\Plugins\Android\res\drawable-anydpi-v26 with the file: app_icon

inside the app_icon

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

when I remove the icon from the player settings, I get the default Unity icon
when I leave it there, the new icons that I imported from android studio are not showen.

please help

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There is no need to specify it in the manifest? app_icon.xml will be overrided or merged?

as https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_adaptive stated. Both layers must be sized at 108 x 108 dp in case this help someone