icon-set-creator

• 🌈 Easy to install — does not require additional software
• ⚡️ Fast — image manipulation powered by sharp
• 🛠 Configurable — using cli options or config file
• 📱 iOS and Android support — create icons for both platforms with one command
• 🌟 Adaptive Icons — support for color and image backgrounds
• 🟢 Round Icons — automatically generated for Android

You can run the icon generator with the npx command (available in Node.js 8.2.0 and later).

$ npx icon-set-creator create ./path/to/icon.png

For earlier Node versions, see 🚀 Installation section below.

Node Version Requirement

Icon set creator requires Node.js version 14.0 or above (v16+ recommended). You can manage multiple versions of Node on the same machine with n, nvm or nvm-windows .

To install the new package globally, use one of the following commands. You need administrator privileges to execute these unless npm was installed on your system through a Node.js version manager (e.g. n or nvm).

$ npm install -g icon-set-creator
# OR
$ yarn global add icon-set-creator

After installation, you will have access to the iconset binary in your command line. You can verify that it is properly installed by simply running iconset, which should present you with a help message listing all available commands.

You can check you have the right version with this command:

$ iconset --version

If you want to install the icon-set-creator locally, use one of the following commands:

$ npm install icon-set-creator -D
# OR
$ yarn add icon-set-creator -D

To create app icon you need:

• PNG icon for IOS and Android (Highly recommend using an icon with a size of at least 1024x1024 pixels). You can check the example folder for example icons.
• You can also create Adaptive Icon for Android, which can display a variety of shapes across different device models (Learn More). To create it you need a foreground image and a background color or image. There is also a good article on how to design such icons.

The easiest way to use icon-set-creator is to specify the path to icon using iconset create command in root of your project:

$ iconset create ./icon.png

If you have the package installed locally, you can do same with the package.json script and then run it with npm run create-appicon:

{
  "scripts": {
    "create-appicon": "iconset create ./icon.png"
  }
}

It will generate icons of different sizes for Android and iOS.

There are two primary ways to configure icon-set-creator:

• CLI parameters - use the command options.
• Configuration files - use a JavaScript, JSON, or package.json file to specify configuration information to generate an application icon depending on your code style.

To display all of the options for the given command, run iconset <command> --help. For example:

$ iconset create --help

Usage: index create [options] [image-path]

Generate a new icon set for React Native project

Options:
  -d, --disable-launcher-icon                  Disable changing the launcher icon for iOS and Android
  -A, --android [icon-name]                    Generate icon set for android
  -IPA, --image-path-android                   Image path for android
  --flavor [flavor]                            Flavor name
  -b, --adaptive-icon-background <background>  The color (E.g. "#ffffff") or image asset (E.g. "assets/images/christmas-background.png") which will be
                                               used to fill out the background of the adaptive icon.
  -f, --adaptive-icon-foreground <foreground>  The image asset which will be used for the icon foreground of the adaptive icon
  -I, --ios                                    Generate icon set for ios
  --group <group>                              Group for ios
  -IPI, --image-path-ios                       Image path for ios
  -h, --help                                   display help for command

icon-set-creator supports configuration files in several formats:

• JavaScript - use .iconsetrc.js and export an object containing your configuration.
• JSON - use .iconsetrc.json to define the configuration structure.
• package.json - create an iconsetConfig property in your package.json file and define your configuration there.

If there are multiple configuration files in the same directory, icon-set-creator will only use one. The priority order is as follows:

• .iconsetrc.js
• .iconsetrc.json
• package.json

icon-set-creator will automatically look for them in the directory path to be used to run the CLI.

Here's an example JavaScript configuration file that uses the adaptiveIconBackground/adaptiveIconForeground options to support adaptive icons:

// .iconsetrc.js
module.exports = {
  imagePath: './assets/icon.png',

  adaptiveIconBackground: './assets/icon-background.png',
  adaptiveIconForeground: './assets/icon-foreground.png',
};

• imagePath — The location of the icon image file which you want to use as the app launcher icon. e.g. ./assets/icon.png
• disableLauncherIcon - Generate only icons without changing manifest files
• android/ios (optional): true — Override the default existing React-Native launcher icon for the platform specified, false — ignore making launcher icons for this platform, icon_name — this will generate a new launcher icons for the platform with the name you specify, without removing the old default existing React-Native launcher icon.
• imagePathAndroid — The location of the icon image file specific for Android platform (optional — if not defined then the imagePath is used)
• imagePathIos — The location of the icon image file specific for iOS platform (optional — if not defined then the imagePath is used)

The next two attributes are only used when generating Android launcher icon:

• adaptiveIconBackground — The color (E.g. "#ffffff") or image asset (E.g. "assets/images/dark-background.png") which will be used to fill out the background of the adaptive icon
• adaptiveIconForeground — The image asset which will be used for the icon foreground of the adaptive icon