How to assign visually different launch icons for different Android activities

Question

After following successfully the method to set multiple LAUNCHER activities (as described in https://stackoverflow.com/a/3270783/978329) using the taskAffinity attribute, I ended up with having separated icons, one for each Activity.

My problem is that all these icons look the same, based on the parent application icon.

I am looking for a way to assign a different visual icon for each LAUNCHER activity (e.g. one red icon, one green icon, one blue icon etc.) so the difference will not be only by the label, but also by the graphics.

Any idea?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 21 '11 at 22:58

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In each activity element of your manifest add the android:icon attribute and assign it to a drawable. For example <activity ... android:icon="@drawable/icon_x".

answered Dec 21 '11 at 22:58

Dan S

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 21 '11 at 22:59

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You can use:

android:icon="@drawable/my_activity_icon"

in each activity defined as launcher.

answered Dec 21 '11 at 22:59

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too bad your answer was a minute difference from Dan S answers :) – shareef Jun 15 '13 at 14:21

How to assign visually different launch icons for different Android activities

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