From the most recent Build distributed on the channel Android Canaryemerges that Background and stylethe Pixel customization app could soon receive News related to themed iconsone of the biggest “grains” in the aesthetic coherence of Google -branded devices.

It seems that the development team has found a solution to resolve the limits of this option found so far and that the right assist can offer it artificial intelligence. Let’s find out all the details that emerged.

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The themed icons of the Pixel Launcher: little the road made by Android 12 to today

Since their introduction with Android 12, version of Android which still represents the latest aesthetic revolution of the operating system (the next one will officially manifest itself with Android 16 QPR1 in September), the Themed icons of the Pixel Launcher have always been in beta (net of some volatile and short parenthesis).

However noble, their goal, or to contribute amalgam chromatic of all parts of the operating system, it has never been reached mainly due to the presence of some apps that do not have the themed icon and therefore maintain the “classic” colors of the icon and not marry the theme set on the device.

Even in the most recent Beta 3 of Android 16 QPR1 and Build 2507 of the Android Canary channel, the themed icons continue to maintain the same original functioning and, despite some improvements in the general surrender made with the various Android releases, continue to represent a real “grain” for Google.

A couple of months ago it emerged that the Mountain View giant was working to implement the themes within Background and stylegiving users to select something pre-compared to customize the entire system on the fly (probably background, colors, icons and so on).

In the last few hours, the well -known Insider Mishaal Rahman (via Android Authority) has made it known that Big G is thinking of resorting to artificial intelligence to solve the problem related to themed icons.

The current version is practically the same as Android 13

At present, the Themed icons They go to take the dominant colors of the background set on the device and “insert” them within the icons of the apps that support them (initially they were limited to the Google apps but by Android 13 they were also extended to third -party apps), “turning the situation” turning “when the dark theme is active.

When it comes to apps of the Mountain View giant, there is now the (almost) total certainty that each app has support for themed icons, returning to the initial screen a situation similar to that of the previous image. When it comes to third -party apps, however, it is not said that the developers have added support to this functionality.

The “real” themed icons thanks to the AI?

It seems that Google has stopped wanting to continue following the approach “Wait and hope”, which proved to be ineffective despite 3 years have passed. An option could be to “force” developers to provide monochromatic icons for their apps but the reaction of the developers themselves may not be positive.

So how to do it? The simplest road, already traveled by reality such as Apple and Nothing, could be that of bypass the developers implementing an algorithm that automatically color the existing icons. Something like this seems to be suggested by the channel Build 2507 Android Canarycontaining some code strings in the app Background and style that suggest the possibilities that users will be given:

  • Predefined – Leave the icons of the apps with their natural colors.
  • Minimal – Use a monochromatic version of the app icons.
  • Icons to – Use artificial intelligence to generate a personalized icon style.
  • Creation – Leave users the opportunity to create their own personalized style.

In addition to taking (again) seriously the question of Themed icons (Although the other large limit of the function remains, or the availability on the initial screen but not in the app drawer), Google should soon allow users to change the shape of the icons between some presets.

There is the possibility (but there is no certainty) that the Mountain View giant is preparing all these changes in the personalization field for a future Pixel Drop that can give Pixel users more creative new life and “put in difficulty” the third -party launcher.