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title: "How to change Android application icon"  
description: "How to change Android application icon"  
author: "Mark Devid"  
published: 2015-03-09  
updated: 2015-03-09  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/13007/how-to-change-android-application-icon  
category: "android"  
tags: ["android", "image view"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How to change Android application icon

My [default](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/12771/what-is-the-importance-of-default-resources) [icon](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13090/icon-the-identity-of-your-brand) is ic_launcher which is [android](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13046/10-reasons-why-i-prefer-android-vs-iphone-ios) icon and i want to change this icon

## Replies

### Reply by Manoj Pandey

Add your icon then extract your project , open AndroidManifest.xml file and open as .xml file

```
<application        android:allowBackup="true"             android:icon="@drawable/myicon"        android:label="@string/app_name"        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" ></application>
```


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