I want to change the app icon's layout to circle in iOS. Can you please help me with a solution to this.By default, it is a square with rounded corners. I want to make it in a custom format. Is it possible to do so?
All about App Icons can be found here.
From this guidelines:
Note: All icon images must be in PNG format. Icon images may include an alpha channel but should not include any transparent regions.
So it is not possible to make circular app icons on iOS.
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I have following images:
Original PNG
Load in iOS App
As seen, left side icon color works perfectly, but for right side icon, why iOS load different color? It applies on both iOS simulator and device. Is it wrong setting when saving the PNG in Photoshop?
And I don't have any code to change the color or tint.
It is not related to iOS code, since it also occured on Android.
The solution is, we need to use the actual bit depth. I use 8 bit depth (automatically by Photoshop) while actually the icon uses 16 bit depth when editing the icon.
I'm working on a iOS application. My app icons has transparent background but when app installed on iPhone it shows white background.
Here is my app icon you can see the white borders:
How I can fit this icon?
You shouldn't have transparent background for app icons.
I suggest you to read the guidelines about icons. Explanation from these guidelines about transparency :
Avoid transparency. An app icon should be opaque. If the icon’s
boundaries are smaller than the recommended sizes—or you use
transparency to create “see-through” areas—the resulting icon can
appear to float on a dark background, which tends to look especially
unattractive on the beautiful wallpapers that users choose.
Pre-rendered icons on iOS
By default, iOS will modify the icon graphic you supply to add rounded corners, a drop shadow, and a reflective shine. The graphics here shows the before (left) and after (right) effects of this transformation. Apple recommends that your icon graphic have 90-degree corners, does not apply any shine or gloss, and does not use any alpha transparency.
You cannot prevent the rounded corners or drop shadow from being applied. But you can override the reflective shine by providing a "prerendered" icon and making a change in the tiapp.xml file. You might do so to apply your own shine effects. To prevent the default shine from being applied, update the following key in the tiapp.xml to have the value true.
<prerendered-icon>true</prerendered-icon>
Please read more from appc Doc http://docs.appcelerator.com/platform/latest/#!/guide/Icons_and_Splash_Screens-section-29004897_IconsandSplashScreens-Pre-renderediconsoniOS
That is expected. You can see this Apple Documentation that explains how you should design your icon to avoid this white background
For the icon sizes, please check the first row of this table.
So I'm building my app in Swift for iPhone only.
When I want custom image buttons, I create my own image icons for these buttons. I design them as vectors in Adobe Illustrator CS6 and save them as high quality PNG 24 bit.
But my image icons never appear to be very good quality. (I am only comparing this to other apps images. For example:
Icons in eBay app: Nice a crisp/sharp
Icons in Amazon app: Nice a crisp/sharp
Then here are the icons taken from my app:
You can see from the above 'social' icons, that if I just try and make the stroke lines thinner, then they just appear incredibly faint.
All images above are taken as screenshots from my actual device. The icons you see in my app are being shown at roughly 30x30 or 50x50
My questions are:
Am I created these icons wrong?
What size, specs should I be creating these icons as?
Thanks in advance!
Look at this iOS Human Interface Guideline.
It show all the formats and size for all devices
Obviously the image file itself is 120x120, but the inside would be a circle in a fully transparent square.
Should I ask for full square icon?
I don't want to share my icon because of the client.
The answer is a "soft no" -- from the HIG:
Avoid transparency. An app icon should be opaque. If the icon’s
boundaries are smaller than the recommended sizes—or you use
transparency to create “see-through” areas—the resulting icon can
appear to float on a dark background, which tends to look especially
unattractive on the beautiful wallpapers that users choose.
Basically, it's going to look very wrong and bad. An option would be to choose a solid background field color for the app icon, and put the circle on that.
I am facing the problem with the App Icon on the iOS 7 Device, the Problem is : I am getting a black border on the top corner of the icon. The Icon size & Name i used is:
Size : 120 X 120 pixels
Name : Icon-60#2x.png
(Sorry, I can't post the screen shot/Image here as i need 10 reputation points to post an image. Hope you guys understands)
Please help me.
Thanks in Advance !
EDIT:
iOS HIG guidelines suggest,
Avoid transparency. An app icon should be opaque. If the icon’s boundaries are smaller than the recommended sizes—or you use transparency to create “see-through” areas—the resulting icon can appear to float on a black background, which tends to look especially unattractive on the beautiful wallpapers that users choose.
Check if there is any transparency present in the icon, if yes, please remove it.
You should avoid rounded corner icon, because Apple applies masks to your icon image for this. Provide a sqaure-ish icon of dimensions 120x120 pixels.
Hope that helps!
For iPhone and iPod touch, both of these sizes are required:
120 x 120 pixels
60 x 60 pixels (standard resolution)
Reference by apple doc
I've faced same issue like this. I'd provided image with rounded corner. When I provide flat image with this size, I'll see correct icon. Seems to be silly. But It has work.
Please try these steps
STEP 1:Remove the transparency of app icon.
STEP 2:Add square images. Images with rounded corners also make this issue