What's the real size of the launcher icon on nexus 5?

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As the doc mentioned,the launcher icon is 48*48dp.

So I think the launcher icon should be 144 * 144px on my nexus 5.
But I research a screenshot of my nexus 5,I find it's almost 166* 163px.
Why it's bigger than 144*144px?

Is my method of calculating the size wrong?

(p.s. an app with a 144*144px icon in the drawable-xxhdpi folder is also shows 166* 163px in the launcher.)

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score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 05 '14 at 05:02

Per the info provided by someone working at Google, Nexus 5's launcher uses the launcher icon in the next DPI bucket, i.e. on Nexus 5 it will use one DPI bucket up XXHDPI --> XXXHDPI, which makes the icon 192x192. The reason why your measurement is less than 192 is because the launcher icon graphics is not supposed to fill the whole image.

score -3 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 05 '14 at 04:51

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Nexus 5 is XXHDPI device.These device DPI are around 440. So, Google Nexus 5 need to add a 144*144px icon in the drawable-xxhdpi folder.

edited Aug 05 '14 at 04:51

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answered Aug 05 '14 at 04:25

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My puzzle is I find the size is bigger than 144*144px on my nexus 5. – wangqi060934 Aug 05 '14 at 04:29
are you put icon in drawable-xxhdpi? check that From which drawable folder , nexus 5 take icon. – Md Abdul Gafur Aug 05 '14 at 04:32
Did you understand my last answer? – Md Abdul Gafur Aug 05 '14 at 04:55
It's not it is xxxhdpi and so is nexus 4. Cheers. Feel free to remove this answer or o update it to nit confuse pp – sivi Mar 17 '16 at 21:27

What's the real size of the launcher icon on nexus 5?

Is my method of calculating the size wrong?

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