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#HOW TO GET AN APP ICON BACK HOW TO#
#HOW TO GET AN APP ICON BACK ANDROID#

The Smart Launcher team built Icon Pack Studio and integrated it into its launcher, so you'll get the best experience using both apps together for a true Material You icon pack with automatic adaptation when you swap wallpaper. However, you won't need to re-export and re-apply each time you change your wallpaper if you use Smart Launcher 5. Icon Pack Studio allows you to craft custom icon packs, that can then be exported and applied like any third-party icon pack.

#HOW TO GET AN APP ICON BACK ANDROID#

Dynamic Color is the algorithm that will analyze your wallpaper then pick complementary colors to tint system elements and your app icons, and even if we can't get Google's super-secret color formula, we can still get app icons that change with our wallpapers easily using Icon Pack Studio and one of the best Android launchers.

While Material You as a whole will be part of Android 12 and can be implemented by all Android manufacturers, but the Dynamic Color picker is limited to the Pixel line. You will find there the app's icon too.While Android 12 will be arriving soon, the most striking visual change will be Pixel-exclusive at launch. App's resources are places in the /Assets subfolder. Each corresponds to a UWP app installed on your computer.

Reopen File Explorer and type C:/Program Files/WindowsApps in the adress bar again.

In the Advanced Security Settings for WindowsApps dialog click Apply and then OK.

In the Enter object name to select textbox in the Select an object or group dialog enter your username (the one displayed in cmd after C:/User/ right after opening it).

Click the blue text Change next to Owner: TrustedInstaller.

In the Advanced Security Settings for WindowsApps dialog click Continue.

In the WindowsApps Properties dialog click Advanced.

In the You have been denied permission to this folder dialog click security tab highlighted in blue.

This will require administrator privilages.

In the You dont' have permission to access this folder dialog click Continue.

Open File Explorer and type C:/Program Files/WindowsApps in the adress bar.

I didn't finde any way to do the same with an UWP App. Then i can use: Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon()Īnd everything is fine.

I tried to look up the "AppxManifest.xml" but i looks completly different for different Apps.įor an non UWP App i get as IconLocation something like:

#HOW TO GET AN APP ICON BACK HOW TO#

I don't understand how to choose the correct icon. With IAssocHandler::GetIconLocation i get for UWP Apps (Microsoft Edge) something i use SHLoadIndirectString on this string i get:Ĭ:\WINDOWS\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Assets\īut that is the wrong Icon (has no color or contrast).Ĭ:\WINDOWS\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Assets\ With the help of SHAssocEnumHandlers i managed to get the associated applications to a given file extension. I want to extract the icon of an UWP App to build a Explorer like "Open With" menue.