flutter_dynamic_icon_plus #

A flutter plugin for dynamically changing app icon and app icon batch number (iOS only) in the mobile platform. Supports only iOS (with version > 10.3).

Usage #

To use this plugin, add flutter_dynamic_icon_plus as a dependency in your pubspec.yaml file.

Known Issue #

When you launch your app then change to alternate icon and stop debugging, you can’t directly run again the application from code. This issue related to #38965

Getting Started #

Check out the example directory for a sample app using flutter_dynamic_icon_plus.

Android Integration #

Include applicationIdSuffix

If your app contains applicationIdSuffix please add applicationId on your activity-alias name for example


	<activity-alias
            android:label="Your app"
            android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_1"
            android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_1"
            android:name=".icon_1"
            android:exported="true"
            android:enabled="false"
            android:targetActivity=".MainActivity">

            <meta-data
                android:name="io.flutter.embedding.android.NormalTheme"
                android:resource="@style/NormalTheme"
                />

            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>

        </activity-alias>

Setup Manifest

Update android/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml as follows: ```xml

<application ...>
    <activity
        android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:launchMode="singleTop"
        android:theme="@style/LaunchTheme"
        android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|keyboard|screenSize|smallestScreenSize|locale|layoutDirection|fontScale|screenLayout|density|uiMode"
        android:hardwareAccelerated="true"
        android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
        android:enabled="true">
			
        <meta-data
            android:name="io.flutter.embedding.android.NormalTheme"
            android:resource="@style/NormalTheme"
            />

        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

    <!-- The activity-alias are your alternatives icons and name of your app, the default one must be enabled (and the others disabled) and the name must be ".DEFAULT". All the names of your activity-alias' name must begin with a dot. -->

    <!-- FOR NOW USE "icon_1" AS ALTERNATIVE ICON NAME -->

    <activity-alias
        android:label="Your app"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_1"
        android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_1"
        android:name=".icon_1"
        android:exported="true"
        android:enabled="false"
        android:targetActivity=".MainActivity">

        <meta-data
            android:name="io.flutter.embedding.android.NormalTheme"
            android:resource="@style/NormalTheme"
            />

        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>

    </activity-alias>

    <activity-alias
        android:label="Your app"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_2"
        android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_2"
        android:name=".icon_2"
        android:exported="true"
        android:enabled="false"
        android:targetActivity=".MainActivity">

        <meta-data
            android:name="io.flutter.embedding.android.NormalTheme"
            android:resource="@style/NormalTheme"
            />

        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>

    </activity-alias>
</application>
```

Known Issues

Each android version will have different behavior, with Android 8 it may take a few seconds before we can notice the change
Caution: Using this feature on some android versions will cause your app to crash (it will crash the first time you change the icon, next time it won't), it's a bad user experience that you have to crash the app to change the app icon, you can read more about this issue here
Caution: Using this feature will close your app when change from default to alternate app icon. But, if you change between alternate app icon the app will restart automatically.
Due to Splash screen problems of newest Android versions, please consider to remove the below code in your activivy and activity-alias tags:

  <meta-data
                android:name="io.flutter.embedding.android.SplashScreenDrawable"
                android:resource="@drawable/launch_background"
                />

Add this code to your MainActivity.kt, in onCreate function:

	 if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.S) {
            // Disable the Android splash screen fade out animation to avoid
            // a flicker before the si
            milar frame is drawn in Flutter.
            splashScreen.setOnExitAnimationListener { splashScreenView -> splashScreenView.remove() }
        }

iOS Integration #

Index

2x - 120px x 120px
3x - 180px x 180px

To integrate your plugin into the iOS part of your app, follow these steps

First let us put a few images for app icons, they are
- teamfortress@2x.png, teamfortress@3x.png
- photos@2x.png, photos@3x.png,
- chills@2x.png, chills@3x.png,
These icons shouldn't be kept in Assets.xcassets folder, but outside. When copying to Xcode, you can select 'create folder references' or 'create groups', if not you will get and error when uploading the build to the AppStore saying: (Thanks to @nohli for this observation) TMS-90032: Invalid Image Path - - No image found at the path referenced under key 'CFBundleAlternateIcons':...

Here is my directory structure:

directory_structure

Next, we need to setup the Info.plist
1. Add Icon files (iOS 5) to the Information Property List
2. Add CFBundleAlternateIcons as a dictionary, it is used for alternative icons
3. Set 3 dictionaries under CFBundleAlternateIcons, they are correspond to teamfortress, photos, and chills
4. For each dictionary, two properties — UIPrerenderedIcon and CFBundleIconFiles need to be configured
5. If the sub-property UINewsstandIcon is showing under Icon files (iOS 5) and you don't plan on using it (it is intended for use with Newstand features), erase it or the app will get rejected upon submission on the App Store

Note that if you need it work for iPads, You need to add these icon declarations in CFBundleIcons~ipad as well. See here for more details.

Here is my Info.plist after adding Alternate Icons

Screenshot

info.plist

Raw

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
	<string>en</string>
	<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
	<string>$(EXECUTABLE_NAME)</string>
	<key>CFBundleIcons</key>
	<dict>
		<key>CFBundleAlternateIcons</key>
		<dict>
			<key>chills</key>
			<dict>
				<key>CFBundleIconFiles</key>
				<array>
					<string>chills</string>
				</array>
				<key>UIPrerenderedIcon</key>
				<false/>
			</dict>
			<key>photos</key>
			<dict>
				<key>CFBundleIconFiles</key>
				<array>
					<string>photos</string>
				</array>
				<key>UIPrerenderedIcon</key>
				<false/>
			</dict>
			<key>teamfortress</key>
			<dict>
				<key>CFBundleIconFiles</key>
				<array>
					<string>teamfortress</string>
				</array>
				<key>UIPrerenderedIcon</key>
				<false/>
			</dict>
		</dict>
		<key>CFBundlePrimaryIcon</key>
		<dict>
			<key>CFBundleIconFiles</key>
			<array>
				<string>chills</string>
			</array>
			<key>UIPrerenderedIcon</key>
			<false/>
		</dict>
	</dict>
	<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
	<string>$(PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER)</string>
	<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
	<string>6.0</string>
	<key>CFBundleName</key>
	<string>flutter_dynamic_icon_example</string>
	<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
	<string>APPL</string>
	<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
	<string>$(FLUTTER_BUILD_NAME)</string>
	<key>CFBundleSignature</key>
	<string>????</string>
	<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
	<string>$(FLUTTER_BUILD_NUMBER)</string>
	<key>LSRequiresIPhoneOS</key>
	<true/>
	<key>UILaunchStoryboardName</key>
	<string>LaunchScreen</string>
	<key>UIMainStoryboardFile</key>
	<string>Main</string>
	<key>UISupportedInterfaceOrientations</key>
	<array>
		<string>UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait</string>
		<string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft</string>
		<string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight</string>
	</array>
	<key>UISupportedInterfaceOrientations~ipad</key>
	<array>
		<string>UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait</string>
		<string>UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown</string>
		<string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft</string>
		<string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight</string>
	</array>
	<key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
	<false/>
</dict>
</plist>

Now, you can call FlutterDynamicIconPlus.setAlternateIconName with the CFBundleAlternateIcons key as the argument to set that icon.

Dart/Flutter Integration #

From your Dart code, you need to import the plugin and use it's static methods:

import 'package:flutter_dynamic_icon_plus/flutter_dynamic_icon_plus.dart';

try {
  if (await FlutterDynamicIconPlus.supportsAlternateIcons) {
    await FlutterDynamicIconPlus.setAlternateIconName("photos");
    print("App icon change successful");
    return;
  }
} on PlatformException {} catch (e) {}
print("Failed to change app icon");

...

// get currently icon
final currentIcon = await FlutterDynamicIconPlus.alternateIconName;

// set batch number
try {
    if (Platform.isIOS) {
	    await FlutterDynamicIconPlus.setApplicationIconBadgeNumber(9399);
    }
} on PlatformException {} catch (e) {}

// gets currently set batch number
if (Platform.isIOS) {
    int batchNumber = FlutterDynamicIconPlus.getApplicationIconBadgeNumber();
}

Available methods #

Method	Type	Description
supportsAlternateIcons	bool	To check this app support alternate app icons or not
alternateIconName	String	To get currently active app icon
setAlternateIconName(iconName)	Nullable String	To update app icon, set iconName with specific value. To restore default app icon fill with null.
applicationIconBadgeNumber	int	To get app icon badge, number of push notification received. This method just work on iOS only.
setApplicationIconBadgeNumber(batchIconNumber)	int	To set app icon badge just work on iOS only.

Check out the example app for more details

Screenrecord #

Showing App Icon change Android #

https://github.com/chandrabezzo/flutter_dynamic_icon_plus/assets/16184998/f3623a54-12f8-4822-8e08-70be4b31efbb

Showing App Icon change iOS #

https://github.com/chandrabezzo/flutter_dynamic_icon_plus/assets/16184998/519e94a4-9643-462b-bb66-f92714e1c56e

Showing Batch number on app icon change in SpringBoard #

https://github.com/chandrabezzo/flutter_dynamic_icon_plus/assets/16184998/4d63a167-6905-4a1c-b8cf-049cc2f1d12d

Reference #

This was made possible because this blog. I borrowed a lot of words from this blog. https://medium.com/ios-os-x-development/dynamically-change-the-app-icon-7d4bece820d2

This plugin inspired from another existing plugin. I copy a lot of code from these plugin. https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_dynamic_icon https://pub.dev/packages/dynamic_icon_flutter

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