Android Question App Icon does not show in compiled app

i'm not seeing the icon in your files (assets) folder. i see it in res\drawable, of course. i don't have the googlemaps stuff, so i couldn't build the project. try copying the icon to the files folder, add it via the ide (add files), tell the compiler what your icon is (project --> choose icon), build and see if it makes a difference. you'll probably have to delete it from res\drawable (although the compiler will probably just overwrite it if you don't. no harm). i'm thinking all those steps are necessary to have it included in some .xml file even though the file itself is actually in the .apk but not referenced

Sorry, your suggestion does not work. First, I deleted the icon from the res\drawable forlder and added the icon using the ide add files. It still compiles with the generic icon. It did also write to the res\drawable folder but it wrote a generic icon, not the selected one in Files. Wierd. I deleted the generic icon and added the desired icon to the res\drawable forlder but it again compiled with a generic icon. At least this time it did not write a generic icon to the res\drawable folder.

I recall Erel stating that icons should be added from the IDE using the menu Project\Choose Icon and that it was not necessary to add the icon using the files manager in the IDE.

I am totally stumped at this point. I am thinking it may be something in the manifest perhaps, but I have tried many combination of minSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion to no avail.

Thanks for offering a suggestion. Here's hoping others with chime in with potential answers for me!

As I understand it this line in the manifest defines the icon

SetApplicationAttribute(android:icon, "@drawable/icon")

and the required icon should be in Objects\res\drawable

Right on agraham! That did the trick. I was in the right ballpark when I suspected it had something to do with the manifest - I just didn't know where the batter's box was!

The manifest is a black box to me. Reminds me of my JCL cards when I was using a Univac 1100. I guarded those card with my life because I had no understanding of how they worked and I knew I could not recreate them on my own (although I could modify a few parameters when necessary).

Thank you very much - AGAIN!