From the course: Building Your First iOS 17 App

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 24,100 courses taught by industry experts.

Adding an app icon

Adding an app icon

- [Instructor] Our app is now functionally complete, but it doesn't have an icon, and what app is complete without a nice icon? To apply an icon in Xcode, all you need to do is head over to the navigator. Remember, you can click this button in the toolbar at the top left, or you can hover over the left edge of the screen, and from there, find the assets package. That should be right underneath your content view, and single click on that. You'll notice that that opens up an assets tab up here in the tab bar, and inside of there, I can click on app icon to apply my icon. So once you have that selected, you're going to see your missing icon image with information about the pixel dimensions that the icon image should be, that is, 1024 pixels squared. You can create this icon using any graphic creation software, such as Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator. The main thing to keep in mind when creating an icon is that it needs to…

Contents