How to set icon inside the main app page in android ?

Question

Hi Everyone,

I have an android app and I want to set an icon. I have set the icon using androidmanifest.xml and that shows the icon inside the app list. However, I want the icon to be displayed while the application is running, also. Any help/hints ?

Thanks.

- ahsan

Answer 1

There's nothing built-in to do this. Just make an ImageView in one of your view layouts and point it at the icon resource. Style and adjust to your tastes.

<ImageView android:src="@drawable/icon"
  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

If you want your image to be part of the grey title bar that appears by default in activities, I don't think you can do that - but you can easily turn off this title bar and just make your own. To turn off the title bar, just set the theme for the activity in the AndroidManifest.xml file.

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar"