Adaptive Icon not working

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manifest:

<application
    android:name="..."
    android:allowBackup="false"
    android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/MyTheme"
    tools:replace="icon,label,theme,name,allowBackup">

under the folder mipmap-anydpi-v26 I have defined ic_launcher.xml:

<adaptive-icon xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
   <background android:drawable="@color/white"/>
   <foreground android:drawable="@mipmap/ic_launcher_foreground"/>
</adaptive-icon>

here is my folder structure :

build.gradle:

compileSdkVersion = 26
buildToolsVersion = "25.0.2"
supportLibVersion = "25.3.1"
targetSdkVersion = 25
minSdkVersion = 18

AND, I'm using android studio 3.0

but the end result is that I get a default android icon instead of the one I provided.

I've also tried putting the foreground png in all of the density folders (mipmap-xhdpi, etc), although I used the same png for all when I did this just for testing

Are you using simulator or real device? If device, what kind? — Karol Kulbaka, Oct 18 '17 at 18:48
Hard to say... Have you tried to update build tools? Another thing is that emulator can not support icon variation. — Karol Kulbaka, Oct 18 '17 at 18:54
@KarolKulbaka it was the build tools version, if you'd like, submit that as an answer, other wise I will — Siavash, Oct 18 '17 at 23:12
did you try to add this `android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"` to you `AndroidManifest`? take a look at this. [Adaptive Icons](https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_adaptive.html) — dotGitignore, Oct 19 '17 at 01:23
See my answer [here](https://stackoverflow.com/a/51171446/2396539) — Aniket Thakur, Jul 04 '18 at 10:26

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 19 '17 at 05:10

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Adaptive icon requied API 26 so you need to update your buildtools to at least 26.0.0 version

answered Oct 19 '17 at 05:10

Karol Kulbaka

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Thank you, this was incredibly helpful – Marc Nov 03 '17 at 11:12
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I have the build tools set to 26.0.2 but it still show the default icon. – Etienne Lawlor Nov 14 '17 at 06:56
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In Android Studio go to Help -> "Find action..." type "image asset" and click to open it. In there you can specify the foreground image, the background image(or color) and it will automatically generate all the launcher images and xml files. – Cristi Feb 20 '18 at 15:00
@toobsco42 I had the same issue but it turned out to be because I mistakenly used the wrong xmls definition (basically I used what Android Studio suggested as the auto-fix, which was a bad idea in this case). – blunden May 06 '18 at 01:29
i dont see the requirements for the buildtools in the official documentation [https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_adaptive](https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_adaptive), where is this documented? – BluePie Aug 07 '19 at 05:41
okey i think I got it, for anyone else having this doubt refer [https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/build-tools.html](https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/build-tools.html) – BluePie Aug 07 '19 at 05:44

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 04 '18 at 11:15

I too have faced the same issue, here is how I have fixed this issue

Right click on resource -> New -> ImageAsset
Choose the ic_launcher_background icon and ic_launcher_foreground as shown in below screen

Android studio creates an ic_launcher.xml under resource mipmap (anydpi-v26)

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<adaptive-icon xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <background android:drawable="@mipmap/ic_launcher_background"/>
    <foreground android:drawable="@mipmap/ic_launcher_foreground"/>
</adaptive-icon>

Now inside the Manifest.XML, declare the icon and round icon something shown in like below

<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:supportsRtl="true"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme">


                .......</application>

Yes that's all and Run your app on any device it appears

Yep. I was using `drawable/ic_launcher` instead of `mipmap/ic_launcher`. Not use often and I think not well documented. — methodsignature, Mar 13 '19 at 11:51
Somewhat yeah we need to dig more get in details, https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_adaptive — Suresh Maidaragi, Mar 14 '19 at 04:11
Success. Yeah, if you replace your launcher icon you need to remember to replace your drawable for mipmap. This one got me good. — ZShock, May 28 '20 at 01:43

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 16 '18 at 14:53

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I had issues getting my adaptive icon to display. Turns out I had done nothing wrong. It started working after I did a 'Clean Project' in Android Studio.

answered Jul 16 '18 at 14:53

aaronmarino

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I had everything fine too. I was about to keep trying different configurations. Thanks! – JCarlosR May 16 '20 at 20:03

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 24 '17 at 12:39

ic_launcher.xml should be like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<adaptive-icon
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <background android:drawable="@color/white"/>
    <foreground android:drawable="@mipmap/ic_launcher_foreground"/>
</adaptive-icon>

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 03 '18 at 01:44

I tried to debug it using an <ImageView>. When I did so, I got a backtrace ending with:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Path string cannot be empty.

Turns out my ic_launcher_foreground.xml had some <path> elements with empty android:pathData attributes.

Deleting those empty <path>s made the icon work!

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