Flutter Application Launcher Icons

Introduction

Flutter Launcher Icons has been designed to help quickly generate launcher icons for both Android and iOS. Today in this article we will create a sample project and then change the launcher icon of that project.

Flutter Launcher Icon?

A command-line tool that simplifies the task of change your Flutter app’s launcher icon. Totally flexible, permitting you to decide on what platform you want to update the launcher icon for and if you would like, the choice to stay your recent launcher icon just in case you would like to revert someday within the future.

Setup Flutter on your machine

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Let’s Begin

• Add  flutter_launcher_icons dependency in your project pubspec.yaml file.

dependencies:
  flutter:
    sdk: flutter
  flutter_launcher_icons: <latest_version>

• Create a folder and add your launcher icon file inside that folder, in my case my folder name is “assets” and my launcher file name is “launcher.png”.

• Add the below code inside your pubspec.yaml file to configure the launcher file with your project.

flutter_icons:
  android: true
  ios: true
  image_path: "assets/launcher.png"

true: Override the default existing Flutter launcher icon for the platform specified
false: Ignore making launcher icons for this platform
path/here.png: This will generate new launcher icons for the platform with the name you specify, without removing the old default existing Flutter launcher icon.

We have successfully updated the launcher icon of our application, now we can run the project.