How can I add an icon for my third-party Odoo app

Question

I have developed an app that I want to publish in the Odoo App Store. The issue I am now facing is how to add an Icon for it that will be seen in the Apps tab once the app is installed.

Answer 1

You should have that icon file anywhere in the static directory of your app/module. Why static? Because it is easier to configure web caching (with apache or nginx) if every app/module has static files at the "same" directory.

You also have to tell your menu which icon file to use, like in the Accounting App.

<menuitem name="Invoicing"
        id="menu_finance"
        groups="account.group_account_readonly,account.group_account_invoice"
        web_icon="account,static/description/icon.png"
        sequence="55" />

Answer 2

You can see in the module source code that Odoo will try to get the icon (icon.png) from the static/description directory:

def get_module_icon(module):
    iconpath = ['static', 'description', 'icon.png']
    if get_module_resource(module, *iconpath):
        return ('/' + module + '/') + '/'.join(iconpath)
    return '/base/'  + '/'.join(iconpath)

Or use the default icon located in /base/static/description/icon.png

To add an icon to your module just add a file named icon.png inside /MODULE_DIRECTORY/static/description/