Adaptive Icons
Adaptive icons are an Android feature (introduced in Android 8.0) where app icons provide separate foreground and background layers, allowing the system or launcher to apply different shapes, animations, and dynamic colors.
Before adaptive icons, every Android app icon was a fixed image — whatever the developer designed was exactly what appeared on your home screen, regardless of the device or launcher. Adaptive icons changed this by splitting the icon into two layers: a foreground (the logo/glyph) and a background (a solid color or simple pattern).
This two-layer system lets the device reshape icons dynamically. Your launcher can display them as circles, squircles, rounded squares, or teardrops — all from the same source icon. It also enabled the Material You monochrome icon feature in Android 12+, where icons can be tinted to match your wallpaper palette.
One4Studio's Adaptive icon pack collection (Lena Adaptive, Caelus Adaptive, Vera Material You) takes full advantage of this system, providing thousands of icons that work with Material You dynamic theming for a fully color-matched home screen.
Tip: Adaptive icons require Android 8.0 (Oreo) or higher. The dynamic color/monochrome feature requires Android 12+. Not all launchers support adaptive icon reshaping — Nova Launcher, Lawnchair, and Pixel Launcher handle them well.
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