Splash screen problems

[Lineflyer]

    Offtopic:

Why is our logo that unaligned at the splash screen?

Originally posted by @fm-sys in #13640 (comment)

[Lineflyer]

While I think the above looks more or less correct, on my Android 13 device it now looks like this (could not make a screenshot in time, so its a video of the device :) ):

VID_20221120_115241.mp4

[moving-bits]

We should probably revert #13650 as it seems to have those unwanted side-effects and also does not solve the related lint finding, even though I followed the migration docs on developer.android.com

[Lineflyer]

If we want to go for another beta rather soon, we should revert. Otherwise feel free to "play around" and fix if you might have any idea.

[moving-bits]

Regarding the initial question:

Why is our logo that unaligned at the splash screen?

We are currently using splashscreen_background as drawable for the splash screen, which uses a transparent background and the following image:

This does at least explain the off-center look, especially if the system decides to not show the original squared image but a circled subset of it.

[bekuno]

I created a separate Issue for the second problem with the false image size.

For the original issue - my spash image is:

Also in square format is the "box" not good centered.

[moving-bits]

Strange observation: If I move the file splash_screen.png from its current folder res/drawable-ldpi to res/drawable-xhdpi (to avoid some unwanted upscaling of the png), it displays our regular square, without circle around it. 🤔

BTW @ztNFny: Do we still have a XML (SVG-based) version of this logo?
(I could only find the map background xml file ic_launcher_background.xml, but not the green box.)

[ztNFny]

BTW @ztNFny: Do we still have a XML (SVG-based) version of this logo?
(I could only find the map background xml file ic_launcher_background.xml, but not the green box.)

There's no XML version as XML doesn't support those shadows. SVG is at https://github.com/cgeo/cgeo/blob/master/main/project/rawimages/ic_launcher_foreground.svg

[bekuno]

See #10522 (comment)

[fm-sys]

I would vote to drop the shadow and go with a pure SVG launcher icon. Shadows are kinda last decade anyway ;-)

[ztNFny]

I would vote to drop the shadow and go with a pure SVG launcher icon. Shadows are kinda last decade anyway ;-)

That's not an option imho - it looks quite unrefined. It's not the drop shadow that's not supported but the smaller gradients, e.g. around the "c:geo" text.

[fm-sys]

Current	Pure SVG

Images taken from #10522

Maybe even remove the background shadow, so that we can properly center the geocaching box inside the launcher icon?

[ztNFny]

actually with the latest Android Studio version this is vector image generated from SVG:

Completely broken ...

[Lineflyer]

Regarding the comparison above:
I could live with the missing gradient/shadow...its displayed on the splash screen for some seconds at max.

[ztNFny]

after some cleanup of the input svg and slight tweaks to the generated vector:

[fm-sys]

actually with the latest Android Studio version this is vector image generated from SVG: [...]

Completely broken ...

No body wants to use the broken version but the working one. Your last version looks good 👍

Just messured: The icon is displayed at 10x10mm on the user's home screen. The gradient is 100% invisible on that size anyway. And even at larger size, the version without gradients looks IMHO way cleaner. (We can discuss whether we want to remove the strange yellow dot at the front corner completely)