Changing your Android icons takes two steps — installing a custom launcher and getting the icon packs. The Android home screens are powered by launcher apps, which feature all the widgets, app ...

Third-party icon packs are an excellent way to spruce up the look and feel of your Android device - here are five of my personal favorites.

The fourth Developer Preview of Android O that Google just started distributing on Monday ships with a number of design changes, including a new icon for system apps. The revised version of the ...

App icons are a little bit difficult in stock Android.You can’t change them natively, so you’ll need a third-party tool along with an icon pack in order to do it.

Android System WebView allows apps to display web-based content without taking you to a full-fledged web browser like Google Chrome. You should not disable the app as it will likely lead to system ...

For Android 13, developers now just need to supply "a monochromatic app icon and a tweak to the adaptive icon XML" and they'll be up and running with a themed icon. It's still hard to tell if any ...

But in Android 13, this will extend to all icons. To make this work, developers will have to tweak their icons a little, so don't expect every single icon to be "themeable" right from the get go.

In the Android 14 system, long-pressing an icon will only display app shortcuts, as well as app information, paused apps, and widgets. In fact, this change came during the Android 14 beta.

Perhaps making matters worse is that, like Android, this system only works for supported apps. If an app isn’t supported, a mask is applied to the icon to make it blend in.

These out-of-sight Android shortcuts can make you meaningfully more efficient — if you (a) figure out how to tap into their full potential and (b) remember to use 'em.