Themed Icons is a new app that apply automatic personalization to desktop shortcuts depending on the wallpaper chosen. Like Material You in Android 12, but with a bit more laborious process.
The latest version of Google’s operating system, Android 12, remains in beta and is only suitable for a handful of phones. As most can not install this version, little by little we see how some news brushstrokes get to Android 11 and earlier; like system wallpapers or updating certain apps. We even have icons that adapt to backgrounds in a more Material You style.
A somewhat complex and efficient way to have “Material You icons”
Themed Icons is a new app that allows you to create icons for installed apps with a function that at the moment only Android 12 has: the ability to adapt the shade to the wallpaper. The app is valid for mobiles with Android 11 and lower (up to Android 8 Oreo), it works as preached and as a downside it requires a bit of a tedious process to run.
Google introduced Material You as a way to customize the system based on the wallpaper chosen by the user. And this is how thematic icons work: once created, the colors of the shortcuts will take on the tones of the wallpaper. Theme icons work with system icons and with any other pack found on Google Play.
Since Material You is a mechanic only found in Android 12, the application creates its own icons and then personalizes them according to the criteria of the wallpaper. Once the application has been downloaded, and after having authorized the storage authorization (it no longer has any), Themed Icons offers the creation of icons following a process guided in the “How to use” section.
The shortcuts must be added manually from the Thematic Icons, then they must be made transparent (not all interfaces allow it, a launcher may be necessary), choose the icon pack to modify, activate the customization of the icons and the tour is played: all shortcuts created from thematic icons will adapt to the chosen wallpaper.
The process is a bit cumbersome, but the app itself is efficient. In addition, Theme icons are free (accepts donations as in-app purchases), do not have any weird permissions, it has no ads and its developer can be trusted. And it has different videos which can be viewed from the app and where each of the necessary steps is displayed.
