Developers must now agree to let their Android app icons be themed or they won't be allowed to distribute on the Google Play ...

For Android app developers that have been slow to adopt Google’s push for themed app icons, there’s no longer a choice.

Starting with Android 16 QPR2, Google will enforce universal auto-themed icons with a monochrome filter across all apps.

Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2 also introduces changes for developers. Google has added a developer verification API that helps app ...

The most notable user-facing change in Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2 is the ability to use custom app icon shapes. Besides a circle, ...

Google released Android 13 in H2 2022. Among other changes, it shipped with themed app icons support, allowing apps to change ...

Customization has been at the very core of Android OS since the beginning, basically. Android always offered more options in that regard than iOS, a lot more. Third-party launchers managed to become ...

Spotify is rolling out an update on Android that ditches the border on its app icon, bringing back a “normal” icon five years after it was changed before quickly reverting the change. For a long time, ...

Android Auto is rolling out version 11.0 to users, and it brings one major change: the ability to change the status and app icons to match what you’d find on a Samsung device. Rolling out now via the ...