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Create icons in Android Studio

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Create icons in Android Studio

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- [Mans Voice] An icon image is a specially sized image file that's intended for use in menus, the toolbar, and other areas of your user interface. You can create icons right here in android studio and you can base them either on clip-art that's provided in the product or on your own image graphics. I'm going to create a new icon that's based on one of my monster images. I'll go to the app module and right click, then I'll choose new image asset. You could also choose vector asset and then you'd be creating vector drawables as icons. You can choose from a number of different icon types and I'm going to choose action bar and tab icons. I'll change the name of the files I'm about to create to ic_monster. And as you can see, I've selected one of my monster images. I've chosen monster02.png. That's because it's the closest of any of these images to a square image. And icon graphics are always square. You can also adjust the color of the image. On your system, you might be seeing a white…

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