android application icon is white circle

Question

I have made some icon for my app and I have tested it on some old Samsung galaxy phone and it showed the icon is a nice square shape.

For some reason, on a newer phone + on the Emulator it shows a white circle as follows:

My manifest file looks as follows:

<application
    android:allowBackup="false"
    android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_custom"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_custom_foreground"
    android:supportsRtl="false"
    android:theme="@style/CustomActivityTheme">

and my mimap is:

How can I solve it please?

Thank you

Using android. Dont think its specific device. Looks more like api thing — Ben, Nov 04 '19 at 15:57

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 27 '19 at 09:38

Move the mipmap content out of the project
then create app icons with Asset studio (right click on project panel > new > Image Asset)
and set icons in manifest like this:

  <application
            android:allowBackup="true"
            android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
            android:label="@string/app_name"
            android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
            android:supportsRtl="true"
            android:theme="@style/AppTheme">

Thank you for your respond but I think it is what im doing right now and it still doesnt work. — Ben, Oct 29 '19 at 18:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 10 '23 at 16:16

The fix to this is in the AndroidManifest.xml file

if you find something like android:icon="@drawable/* as an icon replace it with the actual launcher icon generated by Android Studio.

In my case I replaced android:icon="@drawable/card" with this android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"

TL:DR; Replace icon from @drawable/* to @mipmap/ic_launcher

android application icon is white circle

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