React Native Dynamic App Icon

Since iOS 10.3 Apple supports alternate App Icons to be set programmatically. This package integrates this functionality as React Native module. Android is not (yet?) supported.

Table of Contents

- Install
- Add alternate icons
- Usage
- API
- License

Install

``
$ npm install react-native-dynamic-app-icon
`

$3

`
$ react-native link react-native-dynamic-app-icon
`

$3

1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
2. Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-dynamic-app-icon and add RNDynamicAppIcon.xcodeproj
3. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRNDynamicAppIcon.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
4. Run your project

Add alternate icons

Alternate icons have to be placed directly in your Xcode project rather than inside an asset catalogue. The @2x and @3x naming convention is supported as usual.

$3

Copy the following to your info.plist and adjust it as needed. Omit the file extension (and @2x) part, Xcode will pick them accordingly. You can add more alternate icons by copying the an alternate block.

`
CFBundleIcons

CFBundleAlternateIcons

alternate

CFBundleIconFiles

AppIcon_alternate

UIPrerenderedIcon


alternate2

CFBundleIconFiles

AppIcon_alternate2

UIPrerenderedIcon


CFBundlePrimaryIcon

CFBundleIconFiles

FILENAME




`

Usage

`javascript
import AppIcon from 'react-native-dynamic-app-icon';

AppIcon.setAppIcon('alternate');

AppIcon.getIconName(result => {
alert( 'Icon name: ' + result.iconName );
});
`

Api

$3

To change the app icon call this method with one of the alternate app icons keys specified in your plist.info. To reset to the default app icon pass null.

$3

Returns a promise which resolves to a boolean.

$3

Returns a callback with an object containing the icon name. Example: {iconName: 'default'}`.

License

MIT © idearockers