{"id":12354,"date":"2025-08-20T21:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/12354\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T21:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:04:09","slug":"android-now-has-a-way-to-make-all-apps-support-icon-color-theming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/12354\/","title":{"rendered":"Android now has a way to make all apps support icon color theming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"e_sg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  title=\"Android 16 QPR2 logo hero image\"  alt=\"Android 16 QPR2 logo hero image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Android-16-QPR2-logo-hero-image.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mishaal Rahman \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1 offers improved support for themed app icons.<\/li>\n<li>For apps that don\u2019t natively offer a monochrome icon, QPR2 lets the system automatically generate one for theming purposes.<\/li>\n<li>A new \u201cCreate\u201d option also appears for icon theming, which may be related to in-development AI-powered tools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may have thought today was going to be all about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-pixel-10-specs-features-price-availability-3588502\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pixel 10<\/a> and Google\u2019s latest hardware, but that has only been the start of things. No sooner did Google wrap things up with Jimmy Fallon and the Jonas Brothers than we got our first whiff of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-16-qpr2-beta-1-release-3586937\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Android 16 QPR2<\/a> incoming, as Google released its initial beta to Pixel testers.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Don\u2019t want to miss the best from Android Authority?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Right now we\u2019re looking through all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-16-qpr2-beta-1-features-3586944\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">QPR2 Beta 1 changes<\/a> on our phones to spot some of the highlights, and one we\u2019ve already taken for a spin lets you force themed icon colors on apps that don\u2019t natively support them.<\/p>\n<p>The problem there is that Android\u2019s theming system only operates with app icons where the developer has provided a monochrome version of the icon for Android to work with. At least, that\u2019s how it\u2019s behaved so far, which sucked if you had a bunch of unsupported icons on your home screen messing up its whole vibe.<\/p>\n<p>With QPR2 Beta 1, Google now lets Android automatically transform icons to monochrome \u2014 and then apply the appropriate palette theming. And as you can see in these examples from scuttlefield and A_Button117, it already works kind of great:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_sg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"a16 qpr2 b1 auto icon 2\"  alt=\"a16 qpr2 b1 auto icon 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a16-qpr2-b1-auto-icon-2.jpg\"\/><img class=\"e_sg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"a16 qpr2 b1 auto icon 1\"  alt=\"a16 qpr2 b1 auto icon 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a16-qpr2-b1-auto-icon-1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You might not immediately see this working with apps already present on your device, but installing an app fresh out of the Play Store demonstrated the effect perfectly in our testing.<\/p>\n<p>With QPR2, Google is also changing up how you control these settings for app icons, eliminating the existing toggle for themed icon colors and now presenting you with a screen of options:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_sg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"a16 qpr2 b1 auto icon 3\"  alt=\"a16 qpr2 b1 auto icon 3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a16-qpr2-b1-auto-icon-3.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mishaal Rahman \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s not yet functional in this release, the new \u201cCreate\u201d button over on the right there sure feels like it might be related to the work we\u2019ve already spotted on a system for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/pixel-ai-icon-styles-3581846\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI-generated icon styles<\/a>. Hopefully we\u2019ll have the chance to play with that in action soon, but it looks like that\u2019s going to mean waiting for a future Android testing release.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for being part of our community. 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