Think of app icons as a small container of a fixed size which holds a “bite-sized” piece of visual information about your application. Leather skeuomorphic app icon by Joekirei for SPM Studios. While a logo identifies and represent a company’s product or brand, an app icon identifies and represents, you guessed it, a company’s (or individual’s) application. It pretty much does the same thing, right? Well… kind of. That’s a lot of power, and we want you to take full advantage! Therefore we’ve created this convenient guide that contains everything you need to know about designing app icons: Icon by MAM2 for cryptgram.įirst things first, an app icon is not a logo. Increasing downloads, advertising your app’s look/style and communicating your app’s function are only a few tasks an app icon can accomplish. So we need to modify the above XML thing as below.App icons are small in size but make huge contribution to your app’s success.To change the theme go inside res->values->styles.xml.And to use Toolbar first, we need to remove the Actionbar, to do this we have to change our theme. When you create a new project in Android Studio, it has the old Actionbar. And you don’t need to add additional libraries if you are using version ahead 2.3.

And for this example, let’s create a new one.Īssuming you also have a new Android Project, here I have a project created using Android Studio 2.3. To learn to implement Toolbar, we need an Android Project. Android Toolbar Example Android Toolbar Example You can see an example of the toolba r in below image.

The toolbar is useful for displaying App Icon, Title, Navigation Menu, etc. But in case of Toolbar, it is more flexible you can place Toolbar anywhere in the Activity.

Before Toolbar we were using ActionBar, the position of ActionBar was fix at the top of the screen. The toolbar was introduced from Android Lollipop when Material Design came into existence.

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