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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

    This icon is so small, that this really does not matter much. In fact I'd like to meet the developer that cares about automatic resize of the app icon. On all app developers uploading to the app store, it would surprise that you find more than a handful.  //

    > If and when this is implemented, then Garmin could also add a flag to treat warnings as errors (for those who want the cleanest build possible).

    in my book compiler flags are hardly ever a valid solution, it should be clean out of the box.

    // ok joking aside you gonna probably find more than a handful that want to pixel edit the app icon in all it's possible resolutions, but this will still be a minority. I feel the build should (always) be catered for the majority of people, not for a minority.

    I think what flocsy proposes "have a big app icon automatically resized to a smaller resolution" is the most sensible solution.

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  • 7 months ago

    This icon is so small, that this really does not matter much. In fact I'd like to meet the developer that cares about automatic resize of the app icon. On all app developers uploading to the app store, it would surprise that you find more than a handful.  //

    > If and when this is implemented, then Garmin could also add a flag to treat warnings as errors (for those who want the cleanest build possible).

    in my book compiler flags are hardly ever a valid solution, it should be clean out of the box.

    // ok joking aside you gonna probably find more than a handful that want to pixel edit the app icon in all it's possible resolutions, but this will still be a minority. I feel the build should (always) be catered for the majority of people, not for a minority.

    I think what flocsy proposes "have a big app icon automatically resized to a smaller resolution" is the most sensible solution.

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