Why does every submission on the android lemmy site contain various anti-google and anti-android sentiments? This is a very bizarre and miserable fanbase.

You seem stressed about this…

I don’t want to piss about with icon packs and custom launchers these days. That was very much a “12 years ago” kind of thing for me.

The icon shapes are already customisable on the stock Google Launcher and I rotate them to keep things looking fresh.

You seem troubled. Have you considered therapy?

This setting doesn’t affect the app drawer, it’s just for the home screen which are apps you place manually to be fair - I like the consistency.

It’s not just photos though.

I have a folder of apps and app shortcuts here. Most of these apps support the dynamic icon theming, but the shortcuts use other icons that clearly don’t. So yeah, before this update this folder looked a bit uneven as the app shortcuts were coloured, but now it looks uneven because the app shortcuts look weird and different.

I’ll get over it… 😅

Well considering the app shortcuts/deep-link shortcuts aren’t app icons maybe Google shouldn’t have enabled Material You on them? Even if the app supports it by providing a greyscale bitmap, most of the app shortcuts icons don’t so now if you use app shortcuts heavily (which I do) your home screen is now ugly.

And I don’t want to lose the app icon theming just to fix this. I feel like this could’ve been a beta option so I can choose to force it or not.

Poor wording on my part.

Theres a feature in Android since Android 12 that you can enable which forces app icons to use the greyscale icon (which all developers must provide going forward), and then theming it to your OS colours (Material You).

Until now if an app didn’t have that greyscale bitmap icon it would show the original full-colour icon instead. The latest update means if you enable the feature ALL your apps, including those deep link shortcuts, will be forced to colour-match.

So you don’t see this unless you turn it on, but you can’t get back to the pre-16QPR2 state where most apps follow the scheme and some apps are left as their original icons.

It’s literally the same solution that we’re all happy with today… Oh I have to tick another box in my settings? Damn Google you so fascist.