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Credit to OpenMoji, note why Android uses it.
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(Why Android uses it *badly,* rather.)
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tommyettinger committed Apr 17, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -101,9 +101,13 @@ font that the skin uses (under SIL OFL license).
Other project contributors include [@Mr00Anderson](https://github.com/Mr00Anderson), [@lyze237](https://github.com/lyze237),
[@metaphore](https://github.com/metaphore) (again!), and [@payne911](https://github.com/payne911).
People who haven't directly contributed code have still helped a lot by spending their time to test on platforms
like macOS and iOS;[@JojoIce](https://github.com/JojoIce) is one of several people who made a difference regarding iOS. And of course,
like macOS and iOS; [@JojoIce](https://github.com/JojoIce) is one of several people who made a difference regarding iOS. And of course,
many thanks go to all the early adopters for putting up with any partially-working releases early on!

The randomized icons chopped up and used for Android projects come from the [OpenMoji](https://openmoji.org) project.
If you want to use these icons in a less-mangled format, there's
[openmoji-atlas](https://github.com/tommyettinger/openmoji-atlas) to access these emoji from libGDX conveniently.

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Good luck, and we hope you make something great!
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Expand Up @@ -222,3 +222,15 @@ goes back almost to 8.3. I'm not exactly clear on the nature of the incompatibil
fixed in the next major Gradle release (8.8 or 9.0). Because that won't release for some time, MOE has been temporarily
removed from Liftoff 1.12.1.7; it won't work in earlier versions unless you go back to 1.12.0.4 or downgrade Gradle
yourself to 8.3. This isn't an outcome I'm happy with, but it should get resolved eventually.

### In 1.12.1.8 and later, the default icons for Android projects look terrible!

This is all according to plan. The plan being, you should never be submitting an app to the Google Play Store with any
default title, default description, or default icon, because that makes you look like a duplicate of any other app with
those default properties. And duplicate apps get **suspended for plagiarism!** In order to at least avoid ever producing
an identical icon, there are roughly 4 billion possible randomized icons that can generated now. This involves randomly
choosing some colors and two icons from [OpenMoji](https://openmoji.org), then chopping the icons in half, using a left
and a right half, and chucking those icons into the Android app section, all poorly resized except for the hdpi one.

In short, you should really pay attention to your icon when you are submitting to Google Play Store, but in case you
don't one time, the terrible random icon should not be currently in use by any actual apps.

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