• Google is making support for its Themed Icons feature mandatory by automatically generating themed icons for apps that don’t already provide one. • This change addresses inconsistent home screens, as many developers currently opt out of providing a themed icon for branding or design reasons. • To enforce this, Google updated its Play Store policy today, requiring developers to legally grant users the right to modify their app icon’s color.

App icons rarely look similar unless they were designed by the same person or company. This makes them easy to distinguish from one another but can also leave home screens looking messy. To solve this, Google introduced the Themed Icons feature in Android 13, allowing users to change app icon colors to match their system theme. Support for this fe

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