App Icon & Size & BackGround

[Lvan18]

Hi all,

I've some difficulties to get the App icon i wish.
I red a topic discussing about properties of Icons

Problems with App Icon

Hello everyone, I"m having a problem with the icon for an app that I’m building… The icon is a dark, almost black square image but when I add it to the app and then install it on my phone you can see a little bit of white on both the right side and the bottom. Do you have any ideas on how to fix this? Originally the image was around 800px x 800px and I had the problem so I tried resizing it to 48px x 48px but that didn’t help. This is the image file I’m using: [Vega - Icon - 48] And this is …

But really to much technical for a mortal like me
My wishes is

• My icon will be round
• The background should be transparent
  I got two icon.png files :
  1/ 4096x4096 Transparent
  
  
  
  and
  2 / 512x512 Transparent
  
  
  
  The result (after building the app) :
  
  
  
  How should i do to get an icon uncutted and with a transparent background (not blank) ?
  Thanks for your help
  Loïc

[TIMAI2]

Looks like you need a bigger transparent canvas around your image

[Lvan18]

Ok, but in order to increase the size of the canvas and keep transparent property i need and icon files editor, any suggestion ? thks

[TIMAI2]

Most image editors will do this.

I use Linux and the Pinta program

[Lvan18]

Hi Tim,
Thks for Pinta, i've downloaded it and resize the canvas

that's perfect, my icon is not cutted, but i still have a white background

Do i something wrong ?

[TIMAI2]

I believe how the icon is displayed is android version and device dependent. Someone with more knowledge in this area may be able to add more / say otherwise.