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How to Modify Android App Icons on a Mac

By Technology Last updated Friday, April/12/2024

1). Download the Android app in APK format to your Mac.
2). Click the APK file’s name on your Mac, change its file extension from “APK” to “ZIP” and press “Enter.”
3). Double-click the ZIP file to extract its contents to the current folder on your Mac.
4). Navigate to the “/res/drawable” folder inside the app’s extracted files.
5). Replace the “icon.png” file inside the Drawable folder with your own, 48x48-pixel icon in PNG format.
6). Select all the files you extracted from the APK file in the finder, click the “File” menu and click “Create an Archive” to create a new ZIP archive.
7). Rename the new ZIP archive’s file extension from “ZIP” to “APK”.