How Do I Change The App Icon In The 'recents' Screen?

I know how to change the icon of my app, but when I look at the Recents Screen, the icon is the default one. App icon (all good so far): Icon in my Recents Screen: This is the 'a

Solution 1:

Ok I found the solution and decided to answer for anyone that will encounter the same problem in the future.

I fixed it by adding android:icon="@mipmap/iconout" in the main activity tag declaration in the AndroidManifest.xml, like so:

<activityandroid:icon="@mipmap/iconout"android:name=".MainActivity"android:label="@string/app_name"android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar"><intent-filter><actionandroid:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /><categoryandroid:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /></intent-filter></activity>

And here's the final result:

Solution 2:

Try to change the format of the icon to PNG. That works for me.

Or you could try the application on different devices to see if it's not a problem of the emulator/phone.