Google Play Store: You need fix your high-res icon. It is not a valid image

Question

This is the error message I get when attempting to give my app an image on the play store. Here is the image.

enter image description here

It was created in GIMP. Please help, this is keeping me from getting my app up.

score 36 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 25 '14 at 10:03

36

As described on Google Play Store developer console, icon image should be:
512 x 512, 32-bit PNG (with alpha)

Your picture is (I checked with "file" Linux command)
PNG image data, 512 x 512, 8-bit colormap, non-interlaced

This happened because your image uses only a few colors and gimp decided to use png format with indexed colors so image file is as small as possible.

answered Jan 25 '14 at 10:03

Marcin Mikosik

788
8
21

5

GIMP doesn't "decide" this. This is controlled by the user, by choosing the Image->Mode. – Michael Schumacher Nov 01 '15 at 19:39
The new app icon can be png but cannot have any transparent pixel in image. – Vettiyanakan Jul 17 '21 at 12:23

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 18 '13 at 00:49

3

Resolved by re-saving with Paint.NET. I guess it's some kind of GIMP bug.

answered Jun 18 '13 at 00:49

sajattack

803
1
9
23

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 15 '16 at 12:55

1

you can also use

PNG image data, 512 x 512, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced

answered Jun 15 '16 at 12:55

Mojo Jojo

188
4
16

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 01 '14 at 06:05

0

if you see "Store Listing". down. down.. down... there is another input box

Hi-res icon Default – Korean (South Korea) – ko-KR 512 x 512 32-bit PNG (with alpha)

I also wasted very much time. the solution was very, very, simple.

there is another input box.

answered Jun 01 '14 at 06:05

InWoo

1

JIC it can help someone: If you have low resolution images and want to convert them to high resolution, you could consider [this free, online webapp](https://pixlr.com/editor/). Cheers! – Narayana J Mar 31 '16 at 01:33

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 04 '17 at 02:59

0

I worked hours on this. Finally I downloaded photo and picture resizer and you can type in the size you want. Then take a screenshot of it and upload it.

answered Apr 04 '17 at 02:59

christy

1

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 02 '19 at 12:13

0

I have done below to solve this issue:

Used resize button in the mspaint / Paint application in Windows.
Made sure the content is in the middle of the images.

Uploaded, it worked.

answered Mar 02 '19 at 12:13

Manohar Reddy Poreddy

25,399
9
157
140

score -1 · Answer 7 · answered Sep 09 '22 at 08:44

-1

Google flagged me with this even I haven't changed our icon, only the screenshots.

answered Sep 09 '22 at 08:44

Mikey

4,218
3
25
25

Google Play Store: You need fix your high-res icon. It is not a valid image

7 Answers7

Linked