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How do you change the launcher logo of an app in Android Studio?

We want to upload a new image to be used as Application Launcher Logo for our brand new Android App.

The steps:

  1. Open existing Android Studio Project
  2. Go to Res Folder -> New -> Image Asset
  3. Make sure to keep Icon Type => Launcher Icon (Adaptive and Legacy)
  4. Select Asset Type as Image

Make sure to use image dimension 475 px x 475 px

Image should be in .png format and it should be named as ic_launcher.png

Use online converter tools like this Online Converter if you get images in any other format like jpg, use that converter to convert it to png format.

Beauty of Android Studio is that when you upload an image with the same name, it simply overwrites the old image. So, you need not worry much about the image file name. Besides, if you need to change the default name of an image file,  you can change it here! 

Look in the application's AndroidManifest.xml file for the <application> tag.

This application tag has an android:icon attribute, which is usually @drawable/ic_launcher. The value here is the name of the launcher icon file. If the value is @drawable/ic_launcher, then the name of the icon is ic_launcher.png. If you want to use any other name, change the file name here.

Few more readings go here: Changing Launcher Logo of Android Studio App


(Step: 1 How to upload new Launcher Icon)


( Step - 2 Select Asset Type as image and browse file icon )

Hope it is clear.
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