Developers must now agree to let their Android app icons be themed or they won't be allowed to distribute on the Google Play Store.
  • randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    14·
    3 months ago

    All your icons should not be the same two three four colors. It gets harder to distinguish one app from another. It all becomes noise functionally.

    • biscuit@lemdro.idEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Who are you to say what my icons should or should not be? It’s my phone.

  • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    3 months ago

    Why the hell would I want all my icons to have a theme? It’s easier to find apps when they have different icons. I have priobably hundred i cons on every device.

    • ByteOnBikes@discuss.onlineEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Reading it, it comes off as useful for me.

      During the more chaotic days of Android, some apps had a circle icon. Others had a minor border radius. Some were just full blown squares or transparent logos.

      App logos on the iPhone had consistency.

      I’m not seeing why this is a bad thing.

    • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I agree, I don’t need to show off how much time I spent configuring my phone with neon icons. I just want to use it!

      I tried themes and was annoyed by the added difficulty in telling icons apart and the couple of icons that aren’t in the theme and so stick out like a sore thumb.

    • doctortofu@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Because daddy Google decided that’s better for you of course! Daddy Google knows best after all!🤦‍♂️

  • Antithetical@lemmy.deedium.nlEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    Well, this seems in line with their whole Material 3 crapfest. I have a small personal SPA based on Angular Material 2. I’ve chosen some nice colours and use them troughout the site for a recognizable style.

    With Material 3 you can pick a colour, or if you ask very nicely, maybe 5. And then the framework will generate the colours for the components. These generated colours are almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the colours you picked. Making your site look like an fugly mess.

    Their grand “vision” is that they should match the content or whatever wallpaper the user has. So fuck you and your colours, we know better. It was quite a frustrating experiment and for now I’m back on Material 2 looking to switch to something better.