How do I get the Android Icons in Android Studio?

Question

I'm using Android Studio, and I always see people's drawable calls to things like ic_launcher. I don't have any of these files - hell, where are they even stored? All of my few files begin with abc_ic. How would I go about getting the icons, and where would I put them?

Answer 1

abc_ are ActionBarCompat stuff. It's used by ActionBarCompat. For instance, you'll find the overflow icon there (the vertical dots indicating the menu).

Then there is android:drawable/ that contains the system stuff, not always convenient because it varies a lot from a version to another.

Finally, there is https://github.com/google/material-design-icons/ Pretty much all icons ever mentioned in material design are there, in black and white, in all sort of size, and for all densities.

Answer 2

The Android asset studio is a great tool for things like this. It will generate icons for all the main DPIs. It can be found here: https://romannurik.github.io/AndroidAssetStudio/icons-launcher.html

Answer 3

You can get the system's drawables by

android:drawable/the_drawable_here on XML and

getResources().getDrawable(android.R.drawable.one_random_drawable,null);

programmatically.