PhoneGap Build Icon Support for Android | March 15th, 2011
Recently, I’ve been doing more and more work on the build service that Nitobi has in beta, which allows users to submit PhoneGap application assets and download built binaries of their app for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and webOS.
This week, Andrew and I are working on delivering full icon support for the supported PhoneGap Build platforms. Today we released Android support. Now, if the config.xml bundled in your application contains <icon> elements with different specified sizes, Build will make sure to use the appropriately-sized ones for Android devices with high, medium and low resolution screens.
Here’s a quick example config.xml from a static page I am running called the John Garrett Drinking Game (Canucks fans, you know what I’m talking about) - the code for this is also available on GitHub:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <widget xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:gap="http://phonegap.com/ns/1.0" id="com.nitobi.johngarrett" version="1.0"> <name>John Garrett Drinking Game</name> <description> If you're watching a Canucks game, you need play this. </description> <author href="http://www.nitobi.com" email="[email protected]"> Tim Kim, Ryan Betts, Fil Maj </author> <icon src="img/beer_72.png" width="72" height="72" /> <icon src="img/beer_48.png" width="48" height="48" /> <icon src="img/beer_36.png" width="36" height="36" /> </widget>
The three specified sizes you see for the <icon> elements correlate to the three resolution levels supported on Android: 72 by 72 (or above) will be used for HDPI screens, 48 by 48 for MDPI, and 36 by 36 for LDPI.
Later this week we are hoping to land icon support for the rest of the platforms. Stay tuned!