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I am just curios if Android supports animated launcher icons like the iOS has the Calendar app which always shows the current day or the Clock which has a moving hand on the icon.

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    This question appears to be off-topic because it is not about programming. Perhaps [Android Stack Exchange](http://android.stackexchange.com/) would be a better place to ask. – jww Dec 13 '14 at 23:35
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    Thanks for your suggestion! But allow me to disagree. – Tom Sawyer Dec 14 '14 at 08:52

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Not in general. Android has app widgets for that.

Some home screen implementations might offer developers an API to have animated launcher icons, but that would be up to those specific home screen implementations. There is nothing standard in Android for this.

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  • Well that's a bummer... Thanks for the quick answer though! – Tom Sawyer Dec 13 '14 at 20:10
  • Check out the clock icon on the galaxy. It updates even the seconds needle. So it is possible now. – thunderboltz May 01 '15 at 22:25
  • @thunderboltz: You are welcome to offer proof that this is not a feature of the home screen of whatever device you are using. As I mentioned in the answer, home screen implementations are welcome to do whatever they want. – CommonsWare May 01 '15 at 22:28
  • @CommonsWare whats about Clean Master android app (also animate icon 1 Tap Boost) – Rana Nov 08 '16 at 08:53
  • @Rana: No app animates its home screen launcher icon, except on home screens that offer an API for it (if there are any). – CommonsWare Nov 08 '16 at 11:34
  • it wasn't possible before android Oreo https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_adaptive.html – Faisal Naseer Sep 22 '17 at 13:45
  • Oreo's adaptive icons don't support general animations. But there is now a way to implement clock hands, at least on some launchers: https://www.xda-developers.com/clock-icon-android-o-custom-launchers/ – Sterling Feb 02 '18 at 15:01