Creating a new Icon Set in Android Studio?

Question

In Eclipse there is File|New|Android Icon Set... How do I do the same in the Android Studio?

Answer 1

I use an additional module in my Android Studio Projects to let Gradle generate the icon resources. To create icons, I use Inkscape. Setup: You have just to add an new module 'icons' to your Android Studio project, taken from GitHub. Then, define once the icons sizes in the my.properties file for mdpi:

// All icon heights in dpi for drawable-mdpi
actionbarIcon=32
notificationIcon=30
launcherIcon=40
iconSmall=25
iconMid=35
iconBig=45

For every new icon, add a property line to the config file 'icon.properties':

// Icon with suffix         | SVG file with suffix      |size property          |module |flavor
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ic_action_export.png        |action_icon_export.svg     |actionbarIcon          |app    |main

That's all. Now you can run the Gradle task :icons:generate. This task updates the resource files for every changed icon:

app
  - main
    - res
      - drawable-hdpi
        - ic_action_export.png
      - drawable-mdpi
        - ic_action_export.png
      - drawable-xhdpi
        - ic_action_export.png
      - drawable-xxhdpi
        - ic_action_export.png      
      - drawable-xxxhdpi
        - ic_action_export.png  

See my blog for a detailed description.