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Thierry

Dec 6, 2021

Hello Dave, thanks for your great post. I downloaded your code on GitHub. I have a question regarding MauiIcon. You told that it worked great on iOS and Windows but not on Android. If I understood you correctly the problem with the Android Simulator was the background which was incorrectly white, right ? I tested your code on my computer. For Windows, I can see the right icon (beach) in the taskbar, great. For iOS, I can see the right icon (beach) on the Home Screen of the simulator, great. Unfortunately, for Android, I cannot see the right icon (beach), but I see the basic robot icon. Can you confirm that in the Android simulator on your computer you saw the beach icon ? If yes, something goes wrong on my side (what?). If no, I would create an issue on GitHub for dotnet/Maui. Thanks.

Dave Murray

.NET developer with a passion for mobile and DevOps.

Dec 6, 2021

Hi Thierry. I do see part of the beach icon on Android, not the default robot. What I see is the Android icon only shows the center of the beach icon, missing part of the foreground image and not showing any of the background. As if the beach image is too large.

I think my issue is with Redth/Svg2VectorDrawable.Net which creates the Android icon. I've already reported an issue with dimensions other than px or % and it seems to be ignoring parts of the SVG specification like transforms.

I sometimes see the robot icon in the Android emultor when I've made a change to the icon. Have you tried rebooting your emulator?

Dave Murray Hi Dave, thanks for your answer. I tried a lot of things but unfortunately I cannot get my custom icon to show on the Android emulator. I tried resetting, rectreating, ... without luck. This is my first time with all these things, never touched Xamarin before. After reading a lot of things, it seems I should have a mipmap folder somewhere and my icon should be located inside but I don't have that in my solution.

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