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7 months ago

automatically resize the app icon instead of issueing the warning that the app icon will be resized

we all know the warning:

WARNING: vivoactive3: The launcher icon (40x40) isn't compatible with the specified launcher icon size of the device 'vivoactive3' (40x33). Image will be scaled to the target size.

is it really that bad that the icon will be resized? is it worthy of raising a warning and polluting the build output? 

to answer the question:

I don't think it's worth it.

In the new app I'm writing I went to the trouble to create resource overrides so that each device has the icon prebaked in it's preferred resolution. I had to create 47(!!!) resource override folders just to get rid of this warning.

What I'm doing manually (resizing the icon and saving it in it's specific resource folder) is nothing different than what the compiler does automatically if the icon is not in the desired icon size.

I think:

- this warning has no (/not much) benefit and should be removed.

 

peterdedecker
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  • 7 months ago

    Also, you completely ignored my example where resizing an icon from 40 x 40 to 33 x 33 makes the icon look bad.

    Not only does it look bad due to the resizing itself (especially with the limited number of colours available on a MIP display), at 33 x 33 it's noticeably smaller than all the other 40 x 40 system icons. I assume that a 40 x 40 icon which was resized to 33 x 33 for a 40 x 33 watch would have a similar problem (it would probably be noticeably narrower than all the system icons which would presumably max out the full 40 x 33 real estate)

    People who care about the appearance of their launcher icon (and app store listing image) may be in the minority, but that doesn't mean it's an invalid concern.

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  • 7 months ago

    Also, you completely ignored my example where resizing an icon from 40 x 40 to 33 x 33 makes the icon look bad.

    Not only does it look bad due to the resizing itself (especially with the limited number of colours available on a MIP display), at 33 x 33 it's noticeably smaller than all the other 40 x 40 system icons. I assume that a 40 x 40 icon which was resized to 33 x 33 for a 40 x 33 watch would have a similar problem (it would probably be noticeably narrower than all the system icons which would presumably max out the full 40 x 33 real estate)

    People who care about the appearance of their launcher icon (and app store listing image) may be in the minority, but that doesn't mean it's an invalid concern.

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