Adding an icon for the Android app
App permissions are set and it's ready to run, so let's add an icon for our app:
- Download an icon file that you like and that best suits your phone call app.
- Go to
Solution Explorer
and add the downloaded file to thedrawable
folder underResources
.
- Right-click on
drawable
|Add
|Existing Item
, as shown in the following screenshot:

- A File Explorer window will open. Navigate to the icon file location, select the icon file, and click
Add
:

- The icon should now be added to the
drawable
folder of the project:

- Rename the icon file to
icon.png
by right-clicking on the file and then clickingRename
:


- After renaming the file, rebuild the project like we did in the previous steps.
- Once the rebuild is done successfully, let's add the icon to the application's Manifest file.
- Double-click on
Properties
fromSolution Explorer
and openAndroid Manifest
. - Choose
@drawable/icon
from theApplication Icon
drop-down menu:

- Do Ctrl + Shift + S to save all and rebuild the solution to make...