![]() ![]() You can stay informed on all of our posts by subscribing at the bottom of this page.“I know it's an inconvenient truth, but we have not been profiteering in any way, shape, or form,” Jope snapped when quizzed by reporters. We have React Native developers ready to help you out today. If you or your company needs somebody with mobile development chops, come chat with us. Of course, this is open source so feel free to pitch in with changes □ It’s open source and working well enough as is but of course a little annoying and manual to clone directly into the project repo. ![]() Just haven’t gotten around to setting all that up. Master icon is copied and resized in the working directory ‘temp_output’ and the generated files and folders are copied deep into the Android hierarchy.Ĭheck out android/app/src/main/res/ to see the results.Ī slick npm package of this setup would be nice. I’ve included the correct format for React Native as of version 0.55.3. Dig around in the ‘config.js’ file and you’ll find where the sizes and names are specified. XCode should pick up these changes automatically and you’ll see a nice display of your icons.Īndroid is not quite as automated but works well. Images.xcassets/AppIcon.appiconĪfter parsing out the required sizes from this file, the master icon is copied into `temp_output`, copied and resized to the requisite sizes, and finally, the images and modified Contents.json are dropped into the correct iOS folder locations. You can add overlays and modifications to the staging layer group in Photoshop and the modifications will not affect the master icon export.įirst, the script reads your ‘Contents.json’ file stored in You have two groups in the .psd file, one for exporting the production icon and another for a staging / dev icon. To edit the master icon, edit this Smart Object. Basically, we’ve got two groups in Photoshop that both reference the same “Smart Object”. If you want to get really advanced you can create text files in your repo like this:ġ024x1024 master_icon.png 500x500 master_icon_500.png 200x200 master_icon_200.png 100x100 master_icon_100.pngĪnd paste them into your Photoshop layers to get a variety of sizes.Īnother slightly advanced photoshop technique. Photoshop will automatically generate this .png file at the specified resolution every time the file is saved. The idea is that by naming a layer or group like this: Photoshop includes a little-known asset generating feature that I highly recommend. If all goes according to plan, this script will quickly generate all the icons you need. “makeIcons”: “node iconGenerator/scripts/make_icons.js” ĭrop this folder into your React Native project in the root directory, run ‘npm install’ or ‘yarn’.Īdd this line to your package.json file to keep things nice and easy. ![]() When pushing these apps to beta testers it’s really great to provide unique icons to distinguish staging from production.Īfter much tedium and gnashing of teeth, I’ve built what I think is a very slick icon generator using Photoshop and the Sharp JS image processing library. Our projects often have a staging/dev version and a production version generated from the same codebase. Unfortunately, and as many of you know, the process of creating these icons is tedious and frustrating. Despite this fast-moving approach, I really don’t like to send a deliverable to a client with the icons looking like this: When we’re prototyping an app we focus on the core functions and leave most of the extras for another future milestone. With our requirements of speed and multi-platform deployment React Native is the clear choice. Much of our work is in building proof of concept and early stage apps to demonstrate the viability of new products and ideas. Node scripts/make_icons.js - for an alternate staging / dev mode iconĮdit project_name in scripts/config.js to reflect the name of your project In your Xcode project add a blank icon set: A simple Javascript tool for creating, editing, generating and placing all icon assets into a cross-platform React Native project ![]()
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