How to change an application icon programmatically in Android?

Question

Is it possible to change an application icon directly from the program?
I mean, change icon.png in the res\\drawable folder.
I would like t

Answer 1

Assuming you mean changing the icon shown on the home screen, this could easily be done by creating a widget that does exactly this. Here's an article that demonstrate how that can be accomplished for a "new messages" type application similar to iPhone:

http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-10278814-251.html