[MonoTouch] Application icon does not appear on simulator

Terry Westley monotouch at sabonrai.com
Sat Oct 3 17:34:36 EDT 2009


It's a 57x57 PNG file and is in the info.plist as expected: images/app.png.

Moving the icon to the application root instead of in the images
subdirectory fixed the problem.

Thanks.

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 3:28 AM, Craig Dunn <
craig.dunn at conceptdevelopment.net> wrote:

> What file type/size is the image file?
> In my experience for the icon you don't need to worry about the Build
> Action:Content, just that the Options:iPhone App:Icon has been set.
>
> 57x57 PNG images work for me. I put the file in the application root,
> though again i don't think that matters as long as it's set in the Options.
>
> when you are inspecting the .app, does the info.plist file reflect the icon
> file name/location as expected?
>
> cd
>
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Terry Westley <monotouch at sabonrai.com>wrote:
>
>> This should be trivial but it's got me confounded: My application icon
>> does not appear on the simulator (so I assume it will not show on the device
>> when I get there). Instead, I see a blank white icon. This is what I've done
>> so far:
>>
>> 1) Application icon is in an images subdirectory of the project
>> 2) The file is specified as the application icon in Options -> iPhone
>> Application -> Application Icon
>> 3) The file is specified as Build Action -> Content in the project
>>
>> When the project builds, it copies the icon file to the .app directory,
>> not the .app/images directory (every time it builds). Meanwhile, when I show
>> the .app package contents, the icon file is in both the .app and .app/images
>> directories.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> --Terry W
>>
>>
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