Show app icon in F-Droid client

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Hi!

I noticed that my app lacks an icon in F-Droid client despite of having one. I compared my app to other apps and I see no particular differences:

  • I have reference to a .png image as android:icon in AndroidManifest.xml.
  • F-Droid meta data is described in a single .txt file. No reference to icon there.
  • No obvious and additional files in the app repository, i.e. no fastlane structure.

Yet, no icon. Of course, once the app is installed, it has icon in launcher. I compared several apps. One example being com.vadimfrolov.duorem.txt vs com.lucasdnd.decimaltimeclockwidget.txt.

I’ve read the docs (the one titled All_About_Descriptions_Graphics_and_Screenshots). Have not tried the fastlane structure yet since it seems like there are a lot of apps that do not use it and still have their icons visible.

Anyone knows how to show icon?
Thanks!

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Hi,

in my app I have the same/a similar issue. No icon and no feature graphic is shown in the f-droid client.
The situation here is slightly different for me, as I have the metadata in Triple-T format/file structure, which is documented as being supported.

I just realized, that after switching my language in the Android system settings to English, I see the icon but the feature graphics is still missing.

What is even more strange is, that after I switch to English (Germany), the description text stays German… (but it seems to be not robustly reproducible)
With English (US) - which is the default locale in the app, I even see the recent changes from the whatsnew file (which is localized in my app). In Triple-T and playstore everything seems to be fine, at least as expected :slight_smile:

What I recently did without knowing whether it has an effect is adding some icon png files in app/src/main/ just to try whether it helps.

Any idea help or feedback is appreciated. @fralik what is your app?

Cheers,
Rapha

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Thanks for the info!
My app is mentioned in the first post. Here it is again, called duorem.

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ah, the first link was to your app. - I didn’t recognize that, but understood it as two examples. Anyhow, my answer did obviously not really help - I hope someone who is deeply involved in the f-droid-client can help us out here.

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A small update. I’ve followed the recommended fastlane structure and added icon to the repo. Web-version seems to pick it. F-Droid client on my phone does not:

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Although F-Droid client picked up what I believe is a feature graphic.

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it is really strange, that the icons are shown on the website but not in the f-droid app. This feels like a bug to me. @hans can you explain that? Should we file a bug report?

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if you think there is a bug, please file a bug report :slight_smile:

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I tried to find out whether the data is correctly in the repo - to check whether it is a bug in the client app or the server, but didn’t find any docs. During browsing the code the idea to uninstall f-droidclient and reinstall it. Now I see the icon as on the webversion of ActivityDiary. For Duorem it still shows a robot icon plus the featureGraphics.

Mh, for now I think I just give up, maybe I find some motivation to dig into the repo format some time later…

Edit: after switch back and forth my language settings in Android the icon is again gone.

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