Igor Delovski Board

[delovski]

MF - Simple: Application Icon, When in iTunes

"I have been able to set my icon for my application, that appears on the
iPhone. But when I have my application listed in iTunes, it is just a generic
blank icon."

[delovski]

iphonedevsdk.com - Is it ok to use apple's icon in your own app?

"What about more specific icons that are available within their sample apps.
Are those ok to use as well?"

[delovski]

iPassion - iPhone native apps icons: how to remove the glossy look

"The default behavior of the iPhone OS is to apply automatically rounded
corners and a glossy effect to all icons (apps, links, web apps, whatever)
on the Home screen. I guess the idea is to keep all apps on the device look
consistent with each other, to give the end user the impression he’s in a
fully integrated environment."

[delovski]

iPhoneIncubator.com - Display A Meaningful Name Under Your App Icon

"Recently I’ve been seeing many apps where the name of the app that ap-
pears under the app icon is truncated. Before I even launch the app, I know
that the developer doesn’t care about the appearance of their app. Sad."

[XNote]

Making retina display icons
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1053173

[Ike]

ADC - Custom Icon and Image Creation Guidelines

"It’s recommended that applications also provide an icon for iOS to display
in Spotlight search results (and, if necessary, in Settings). In addition, some
applications need custom icons to represent custom document types or ap-
plication-specific functions and modes in navigation bars, toolbars, and tab
bars."

[delovski]

reddit.com - Where do you guys get your icons?

"I'm not sure if everyone changes their icons (probably not), but I have just
started changing the ones that I really don't like such as Adobe, iMovie, etc.
and I was wondering where other people get their icons. I'll start. I get mine
at Deviantart and Iconpaper.org."

[delovski]

r - I made a MacOS app for resizing assets and generating app icons for Xcode

"Currently, it can make iOS, WatchOS, MacOS, and iOS Messages Extension
icons. It can also rescale images into generic 3x, 2x, and 1x sizes. I'll be
adding more in the future - the goal is to get it to automagically generate
every type of asset that Xcode supports from a single (or multiple, in the
case of tvOS app icons) source image."

[delovski]

r - Quick Icon - A tool for iOS and macOS Developers!

"Hey guys, I made an app on the Mac App Store called Quick Icon, it's used to
generate icons for your iOS, watchOS and macOS projects. It's completely free
and available here:

https://itunes.apple.com/app/quick-icon/id1227275147?ls=1&mt=12

Hope this saves you some time!"

GitHub - https://github.com/Tawa/QuickIcon

[delovski]

github.com - DigiDNA/ICNS2ICO

"ICNS2ICO lets you easily convert icons from the Apple's ICNS format to the
Windows ICO format.

Since Windows Vista, ICO files may contain PNG encoded representations, up
to 256x256 pixels (Windows XP used BMP). So all applications generate PNG
representations when generating icons larger to 32x32."

[Ike]

so - How to manually create icns files using iconutil?

"Here's a script to convert a 1024x1024 png (named 'Icon1024.png') to the
required icns file. Save it to a filed called 'CreateICNS.src' in the folder where
your png file is then in terminal "cd" to the same folder and type 'source
CreateICNS.src' to call it:"

[Ike]

Qt - Setting the Application Icon

"If you are using qmake to generate your makefiles, you only need to add a
single line to your .pro project file. For example, if the name of your icon file
is myapp.icns, and your project file is myapp.pro, add this line to myapp.pro:

ICON = myapp.icns

This will ensure that qmake puts your icons in the proper place and creates an
Info.plist entry for the icon."

[Ike]

so - Mac OS X document icon template?

"I know you can get the plain document icon here:"

/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/GenericDocument.icns

[Ike]

apple.stackexchange.com - How can I change a file or folder icon using the Terminal

"I've created CLI fileicon, which should work on a pristine OSX machine (no
prerequisites); it is a Bash script based primarily on xattr and sips.

It allows setting/removing/extracting custom icons for/from files or folders."

[delovski]

flaticon.com - microphone icons

[delovski]

My Free Illustration Library

"All these Illustrations and Icons are available for free with a MIT License. In
other words: you can do whatever you want with them. Every Week I will
update this list and to stay in touch with this Update, you can sign up for my
free Newsletter. These are all SVG files, to download them, just click on svg
or png."

[delovski]

a - Home Screen Icons

"You must provide icon resources for use on both iPhone and Apple Watch
home screens. Unlike your iOS app icon, watchOS app icons are circular and
display no accompanying text."

[delovski]

Tool for creating icons

"check out sfsymbols! it's an apple app that has all of their symbols for
absolutely everything in vector format, and they make it super easy to use.
they might not have everything, but hopefully some of it!

I use www.iconfinder.com (mix of free and paid) or do ugly ones myself on photoshop"

[Ike]

raphaelhanneken - Iconizer: Create Xcode asset catalogs on the fly

"You can download the latest Iconizer release and drop it into your applications
folder, just as usual.

Or you can view the whole source code in the GitHub repository . And build it
yourself."

[Ike]

timac.org - Reverse engineering the .car file format (compiled Asset Catalogs)

"In this article I attempt to remedy this lack of information on the car file
format by describing its global structure and its different elements. Along
the article, I build a tool CARParser to manually parse car files. The complete
source code of this tool is available for download at the end of the article."

[Ike]

r - What do you use to make icons for your iOS Apps?