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Transparent app icon for iOS 4?

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iphone

ios4

If I use a png file with transparent background as the app icon in iOS4, the compiler will change its background to black. How can I preserve its transparency?

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Kelvin Avatar asked Jun 20 '10 12:06

Kelvin


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2 Answers

Transparent application icons are not allowed. The iOS Human Interface Guidelines makes it clear that alpha transparency is not allowed and elaborates:

Give your application icon a discernible background. Icons with visible backgrounds look best on the Home screen primarily because of the rounded corners iOS adds. This is because uniformly rounded corners ensure that all the icons on a user's Home screen have a consistent appearance that invites tapping. If you create an icon with a background that disappears when it's viewed on the Home screen, users don't see the rounded corners. Such icons often don't look tappable and tend to interfere with the orderly symmetry of the Home screen that users appreciate.

Be sure your image completely fills the required area. If your image boundaries are smaller than the recommended sizes, or you use transparency to create “see-through” areas within them, your icon can appear to float on a black background with rounded corners.

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Mike Wheaton Avatar answered Oct 22 '22 07:10

Mike Wheaton


I think it is impossible.

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David Dunham Avatar answered Oct 22 '22 08:10

David Dunham