Changing electron app icon
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2 min readMar 14, 2018
Generate icns
- Generate
.iconset
You can use IconGenerator - Run
iconutil -c icns “Icon.iconset”
. Note that icon names must be first letter lowsercased, and use_
instead of-
Use icns
- In
main.js
, specifyicon
win = new BrowserWindow({
width: 800,
height: 600,
icon: __dirname + ‘/Icon/Icon.icns’
})
You can also use helper url methods
const path = require(‘path’)
const url = require(‘url’)const iconUrl = url.format({
pathname: path.join(__dirname, ‘Icon/Icon.icns’),
protocol: ‘file:’,
slashes: true
})
If app icon is not updated
- I get a problem that electron always shows default app icon. I tried using
png
,NativeImage
, different icon sizes but still the problem. When I useelectron-packager
to make release build, the icon shows correctly, so it must be because of Electron caching or somehow 😠 - Go to
node_modules -> electron -> dist
, right click onElectron
, chooseView Info
- Drag another
icns
into the icon on the top…