Designing a professional-looking UI is an essential part of delivering a good user experience. While there’s no shortage of guidelines and advice on how to craft the perfect UI, in this article we’ll ...

For the most part, app icons on your smartphone are just that; flat artwork that just sits there on your home screen. With the release of Android O, Google hopes to put some life into those app logos ...

With the new 8.0 feature, it’s easier than ever for icons to be displayed in a “variety of shapes across different device models.” While a win for customizability and (to some extent) uniformity, it ...

Adaptive Icons are on their way to Action Launcher for use on any device running Lollipop or higher thanks to a new add-on application just released by the company. The app is called “AdaptivePack – ...

The Chrome Android app is now using Adaptive Icons introduced with the second developer preview of Android O, some users running the new experimental build of Google’s ubiquitous operating system have ...

Last week, YouTube Music began widely rolling out local “device files” playback on Android. The app’s next change is a new adaptive icon that drops the white background for a full edge-to-edge design.

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