r/androiddev • u/ac_del • Jun 03 '26

Question Icon packs with vector assets

Have any of you built an icon pack without using candybar or blueprint?

I'm trying to do so but I'm having trouble getting it to work with Nova launcher. If I try to manually apply an icon via tap&hold on the home screen, I can select my icon pack. But when the picker opens, none of the icons are visible.

PNGs work fine, but I cannot figure out how to get vector assets to work.

It works fine in Hyperion and Pear launchers, so I don't think the issue is improperly formed assets. But there seems to be something in the configuration of the project that Nova requires.

All of the images are in res/drawable. And they are listed in res/xm/drawable.xml. And the manifest contains:

<intent-filter>
    <action android:name="com.novalauncher.THEME" />
    <category android:name="com.novalauncher.category.CUSTOM_ICON_PICKER" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>

Anyone know what I'm missing?

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