Different app icon and launcher icon?

Question

Didn\'t find an answer from Android Dev Center so I had to stop by in Stackoverflow to find few answers...

a) Will my app get rejected if I have different icon for l

Answer 1

The exact answers of your question can be provided by the google authority. But let me try to share my findings regarding your questions.

a) I haven't found any info like this in the googleplay policies here and here. But In this link in one place it is written that

The assets should reference the same logo and icon as users will actually find in the All Apps launcher once they have downloaded the app

So we can conclude that it is must to use the same icon. Although I don't know how they check it.

b) So far there is now way to do that. No info like title, description, images can be set differently for different language ( someone corrects me if I am wrong ). You can do one thing. For different language you can publish different apks with different package name. By searching you can find similar problems. this so question is one of them.

You can Also check Multiple APK support in google play. Although it is targeted for different devices you can check whether the same things can be done for the different languages. (I am not sure about this :S)