So far, you’ve built Flutter apps using the Dart language and the various Flutter idioms. You then built and deployed those apps to iOS and Android devices without having to do anything special. You may have even tried running your apps in Chrome or as a desktop app. It’s almost magical.
Sometimes you’ll need to add platform-specific code and assets to cater to the needs of a particular store or operating system.
For example, you’ll need to change how you specify the app icon, the launch assets and the splash screen to suit each platform.
In this chapter, you’ll go through the process of setting up some important parts of your app to look great regardless of which platform your users choose.
Open this chapter’s starter project in your Flutter IDE. Remember to click the Get dependencies or execute flutter pub get from Terminal.
Note: This chapter is about platform-specific app assets. For your app features to function you’ll need to add your API Key that you used in the previous section to lib/network/spoonacular_service.dart. If you don’t plan on using the app features, you can skip this step.
You’ll need to use native development tools when working with platform-specific assets, so you’ll need to have the latest version of Xcode to complete the iOS and macOS portions in this chapter.
Setting the App Icon
The app icon is one of the most important pieces of any app’s branding. It’s displayed on the store page and the device home screen, as well as in notifications and settings. It’s the avatar for your app, so it must look perfect! To do this, you need to use constraints.
Android and iOS not only use different constraints, but they also specify them differently, which means you need to tweak your icon for each platform.
By default, when you create a new Flutter project it sets the Flutter F logo as the project’s icon:
Not only is this not branded to your recipe app, but the app stores aren’t likely to approve it.
You can have the same icon for multiple platforms, or you can set it up for each platform individually. For this chapter they’re going to look very similar, including when run in Chrome.
Your first task will be to say “Good-bye, dear Flutter icon!” by updating your app to have a custom image that looks great on each platform.
Hello, lovely Chef icon!
In addition to adding your app icon, you’ll also change the name of your app and prepare the launch screen for multiple platforms.
Ready to get started? OK then, you’ll be starting with iOS.
Setting up iOS Icon and Launch Assets
You’ll work on the iOS app icon and name at the same time.
Optimizing the App Icon for iOS
When you create a Flutter project it creates various subfolders for each platform. The Flutter framework generated ios and macos subfolders that contain the libraries and support files needed to run on iOS and macOS. In those folders there is an Xcode workspace, Runner.xcworkspace.
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Viewing the App Icon
To see the app icon, open Runner ▸ Runner ▸ Assets.xcassets. This is an asset catalog, a way of organizing assets in an Xcode project.
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Set Up Android App Icon and Launch Assets
When you work with your own custom artwork and Android apps, there are a few more steps you need to take, beyond just copying and pasting from a folder.
Optimizing the App Icon for Android
In Android Studio open android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml. This file defines many of your app’s Android properties related to launching, permissions, Play Store and the Android system.
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Personalizing the App Icon for Android
For these next few steps you need to work in the Android portion of your app and not within the Flutter project.
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Now that you have a shiny new icon on the device launch screens, you’ll notice that the app’s name isn’t always formatted nicely, which detracts from the experience.
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Have you ever paid attention to the browser tab icon? It’s nice to have those when you have a bunch of tabs open on different sites. They can help you quickly identify which site each tab represents.
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Updating Favicon
The icon displayed on a browser tab is known as the favicon. It’s a square image that represents the website. The favicon is either 16x16 pixels or 32x32 pixels and can be 8-bit or 24-bit colors.
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Updating Title
There are two ways to set the title of the browser tab. You can either set the title in the HTML or in the Dart code. Each is displayed at different times.
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Flutter generates app projects for iOS, Android, desktop and web, which you can customize with your brand.
These projects contain resources and code related to launching the app and preparing to start the Flutter main view.
Each platform needs specific assets to customize the app launch experience.
Where to Go From Here?
There are some handy packages that can help you generating the icons and spash screen for each platform. For app icons you can use flutter launcher icons. It will generate and organize the icons according to the platform.
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