Swift Programming

How to Programmatically Change your App Icon — iOS Swift Guide

4 steps to customize your App Icon

Apple introduced in iOS 10.3, a new feature that make possible for developers to offer App Icon customization to their users with predefined additional icons.

Here are the 4 steps to add this cool feature to your App. Let’s get started.

Step 1: Design your App Icons

Design your alternative App Icons and export them in two sizes:

• 120px (60px @2x)
• 180px (60px @3x)

Add the icons to your project under a new directory App Icons. Note that the alternate icons files must to be in the Project directory, not in the Assets directory.

App your app icons file in the project directory

Step 2: Register your new Icons in the Info.plist file

First, add a new CFBundleIcons entry (Icon files (iOS 5)), then add another entry CFBundleAlternateIcons.

For each alternate icon, add a new entry in the infos.plist file, under CFBundleAlternateIcons. The…