Customize Icons

This section shows how to configure an application's icon for various platforms. Documentation about splash screen images can be found in the Cordova-Plugin-Splashscreen documentation Splashscreen plugin docs.

Configuring Icons in the CLI

When working in the CLI you can define application icon(s) via the <icon> element (config.xml). If you do not specify an icon, the Apache Cordova logo is used.

    <icon src="res/ios/icon.png" platform="ios" width="57" height="57" density="mdpi" />
Attributes Description
src Required
Location of the image file, relative to your project directory
platform Optional
Target platform
width Optional
Icon width in pixels
height Optional
Icon height in pixels
density Optional

Specified icon density
target Optional

Destination filename for the image file and all its' MRT companions

The following configuration can be used to define a single default icon which will be used for all platforms.

    <icon src="res/icon.png" />

For each platform, you can also define a pixel-perfect icon set to fit different screen resolutions.

Android

    <platform name="android">
        <!--
            ldpi    : 36x36 px
            mdpi    : 48x48 px
            hdpi    : 72x72 px
            xhdpi   : 96x96 px
            xxhdpi  : 144x144 px
            xxxhdpi : 192x192 px
        -->
        <icon src="res/android/ldpi.png" density="ldpi" />
        <icon src="res/android/mdpi.png" density="mdpi" />
        <icon src="res/android/hdpi.png" density="hdpi" />
        <icon src="res/android/xhdpi.png" density="xhdpi" />
        <icon src="res/android/xxhdpi.png" density="xxhdpi" />
        <icon src="res/android/xxxhdpi.png" density="xxxhdpi" />
    </platform>

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BlackBerry10

    <platform name="blackberry10">
        <icon src="res/bb10/icon-86.png" />
        <icon src="res/bb10/icon-150.png" />
    </platform>

See Also

Browser

Icons are not applicable to the Browser platform.

iOS

    <platform name="ios">
        <!-- iOS 8.0+ -->
        <!-- iPhone 6 Plus  -->
        <icon src="res/ios/icon-60@3x.png" width="180" height="180" />
        <!-- iOS 7.0+ -->
        <!-- iPhone / iPod Touch  -->
        <icon src="res/ios/icon-60.png" width="60" height="60" />
        <icon src="res/ios/icon-60@2x.png" width="120" height="120" />
        <!-- iPad -->
        <icon src="res/ios/icon-76.png" width="76" height="76" />
        <icon src="res/ios/icon-76@2x.png" width="152" height="152" />
        <!-- Spotlight Icon -->
        <icon src="res/ios/icon-40.png" width="40" height="40" />
        <icon src="res/ios/icon-40@2x.png" width="80" height="80" />
        <!-- iOS 6.1 -->
        <!-- iPhone / iPod Touch -->
        <icon src="res/ios/icon.png" width="57" height="57" />
        <icon src="res/ios/icon@2x.png" width="114" height="114" />
        <!-- iPad -->
        <icon src="res/ios/icon-72.png" width="72" height="72" />
        <icon src="res/ios/icon-72@2x.png" width="144" height="144" />
        <!-- iPhone Spotlight and Settings Icon -->
        <icon src="res/ios/icon-small.png" width="29" height="29" />
        <icon src="res/ios/icon-small@2x.png" width="58" height="58" />
        <!-- iPad Spotlight and Settings Icon -->
        <icon src="res/ios/icon-50.png" width="50" height="50" />
        <icon src="res/ios/icon-50@2x.png" width="100" height="100" />
        <!-- iPad Pro -->
        <icon src="res/ios/icon-83.5@2x.png" width="167" height="167" />
    </platform>

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Windows

For Windows the recommended approach to define application icons is to use the target attribute.

    <platform name="windows">
        <icon src="res/windows/storelogo.png" target="StoreLogo" />
        <icon src="res/windows/smalllogo.png" target="Square30x30Logo" />
        <icon src="res/Windows/Square44x44Logo.png" target="Square44x44Logo" />
        <icon src="res/Windows/Square70x70Logo.png" target="Square70x70Logo" />
        <icon src="res/Windows/Square71x71Logo.png" target="Square71x71Logo" />
        <icon src="res/Windows/Square150x150Logo.png" target="Square150x150Logo" />
        <icon src="res/Windows/Square310x310Logo.png" target="Square310x310Logo" />
        <icon src="res/Windows/Wide310x150Logo.png" target="Wide310x150Logo" />
    </platform>

where src is the path to the icon which needs to be added.

The Windows platform handles MRT icons automatically, so if you specify src="res/windows/storelogo.png" the following files will be copied into the application's images folder: res/windows/storelogo.scale-100.png, res/windows/storelogo.scale-200.png, etc.

TODO Define what MRT is.

The target attribute specifies the base name for the resultant icons. For every icon file, its destination filename is calculated as target + '.' + MRT_qualifiers + extension(src). For the icons to display properly in the application, every target value should be one of the icon filenames defined in the application's .appxmanifest file.

Summarizing the above… using the target attribute it is possible to:

  • define a group of icons for different device scale factors using a single <icon ...> element, for example: 
    <icon src="res/Windows/AppListIcon.png" target="Square44x44Logo" />

    which is equivalent to the following lines:

    <icon src="res/Windows/Square44x44Logo.scale-100.png" width="44" height="44" />
<icon src="res/Windows/Square44x44Logo.scale-150.png" width="66" height="66" />
<icon src="res/Windows/Square44x44Logo.scale-200.png" width="88" height="88" />
<icon src="res/Windows/Square44x44Logo.scale-240.png" width="106" height="106" />
  • define icons with scale factors other than scale-100 and scale-240 (and any other MRT qualifiers)

Although it is not recommended, it is also possible to define icons using the width and height attributes:

    <platform name="windows">
        <icon src="res/windows/logo.png" width="150" height="150" />
        <icon src="res/windows/smalllogo.png" width="30" height="30" />
        <icon src="res/windows/storelogo.png" width="50" height="50" />
        <icon src="res/Windows/Square44x44Logo.scale-100.png" width="44" height="44" />
        <icon src="res/Windows/Square44x44Logo.scale-240.png" width="106" height="106" />
        <icon src="res/Windows/Square70x70Logo.scale-100.png" width="70" height="70" />
        <icon src="res/Windows/Square71x71Logo.scale-100.png" width="71" height="71" />
        <icon src="res/Windows/Square71x71Logo.scale-240.png" width="170" height="170" />
        <icon src="res/Windows/Square150x150Logo.scale-240.png" width="360" height="360" />
        <icon src="res/Windows/Square310x310Logo.scale-100.png" width="310" height="310" />
        <icon src="res/Windows/Wide310x150Logo.scale-100.png" width="310" height="150" />
        <icon src="res/Windows/Wide310x150Logo.scale-240.png" width="744" height="360" />
    </platform>

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Windows Phone 8 (WP8 Platform)

    <platform name="wp8">
        <icon src="res/wp/ApplicationIcon.png" width="99" height="99" />
        <!-- tile image -->
        <icon src="res/wp/Background.png" width="159" height="159" />
    </platform>