Android application icon not showing up

Question

I've just spent numerous hours constructing an icon for an Android app I'm working on, but can't get it to show up for the app in the emulator.

I've put it in res/drawable-hdpi, res/drawable-mdpi, res/drawable-ldpi in the respective sizes as defined in http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_launcher.html

The manifest contains the line:

 <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name" android:debuggable="true">

Any ideas as to why it isn't showing up?

Answer 1

1. Make sure the icon is stored with the name icon.png in those folders.
2. Make sure android has a drawable/icon resource. Check this by looking at your gen/R.java file and seeing public static final int icon = 0x.... in the drawable inner class.
3. Try cleaning your project build and uninstalling any existing version of your app from your phone/emulator and then reinstall the new version.