![]() ![]() Step 2 - After opening New Project-> select Installed-> select Templates-> select Visual C#-> select Android-> choose Blank app (Android). ![]() The project clicks after opening all the types of projects in Visual Studio. We can learn how to change the app icon in Android app, using Visual Studio 2015 Update 3.Ĭlick File-> Select New-> select Project. In Xamarin, the studio is available in Visual Studio also. Windows phone, Android, iOS) in Xamarin platform is the code sharing concept used. Let me know if I has missed anything or have any suggestions.Xamarin is a cross-platform used to develop many platform apps. The example code of this article can be found at GitHub. Unfortunately, there is no such tool for UWP project so I has to make the images myself, if anyone knows any tool, please suggest via comment. There are many online tools to create iOS & Android icons from a single image, the one I used for this post example is MakeAppIcon. Also, you can change the name of the application by changing the Display Name property in Application Tab of Package.appxmanifest file. It’s easiest to change icon and splash screen images in UWP project than Android or iOS project, you just have to add the images as per given sizes in Visual Assets tab of Package.appxmanifest file. Another thing to notice here is that the default name of all the UWP applications given by Visual Studio is FPCL.WIndows, that’s why the application icon will look like the following when you execute it without any change. Here also, the project template adds the default icon and splash screen but they are cross ( ) images not Xamarin logo icons. This is how the icon of my application looked after I updated it: Change the Icon attribute of MainActivity class in MainActivity.cs.Open project properties by right clicking on project file and selecting properties option from the popup menu and select the icon in Application Icon dropdown of Android Manifest section.Build the application so that the newly added icon image comes in Application Icon dropdown.Include the images in your project and make sure that the Build Action Property of the image is set to AndroidResource.Copy the icon images of same size of icon.png in all the drawable folders (namely drawable, drawable-hdpi, drawable-xhdpi).Similar to iOS project, the Project created by Xamarin Forms template in Visual Studio automatically adds icon images, which looks like following when we execute the application without any change:įollow these steps in order to change the default icon image to your application icon: This is how the icon and splash screen of my application looked after I updated them: ![]()
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