Until a few years ago, Android app icons were freeform and could be any shape. I’ll show you how to add them to your own PWAs for Android. I work at Mozilla and have implemented support for maskable icons in Firefox Preview. This new icon format will let your PWAs have their own adaptive icons on Android. However, there is a new web feature called maskable icons that is coming soon to Firefox Preview and other web browsers.
Icons that don’t follow the new format are given a white background. What happened? Well, Android Oreo introduced adaptive icons, a new icon format that enforces the same shape for all icons on the home screen. You’ve created a Progressive Web App ( PWA), designed an icon to represent it, and now you’re installing it to your Android home screen.īut, if you have a recent Android phone, your icons will show up like this:
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