Exploring ideas for a new app icon

[Aditya94A]

Just want to throw out a few ideas for the app icon..

Potential areas that could use another look:

• The Icon-to-Background size ratio is a bit off. The key is way too big. At a quick glance it almost doesn't even look like a key, but rather some abstract shape.
• There should either be a shadow or not. Right now, there's a hint of a shadow which is only visible when you look very closely. If we're gonna go down that road (having a shadow), it should be well defined. Or not at all, nothing wrong with a flat icon. Going either way would be better than the current icon.
• The color is nice. Down the line, we'd want to reinforce the same color throughout the app. I think the current color (#c55b5b) used in the logo will make a good primary color when we hopefully move to using material design.

Threw together some rough ideas:

Solid Shadow: Fading Shadow: No Shadow:

What do you think?

[Tgo1014]

The fading one looks very nice

[ggsava]

I agree! I think the key with the fading shadow looks very nice. I'd will try it out to see how it looks on my phone but I think it will be great. Thanks a lot for doing this! I also agree completely that a redesign is necessary for the whole app (primary colors, material design etc.).. I just wanted to release it asap and I went with a simple, maybe a bit ugly "design" if you can even call it that :)

[stefpe]

I prefer the second one, looks nice!

[Aditya94A]

Haha! I was secretly hoping you like the fading one.

I'm still learning to github, but I put the different resolutions in this repo of the second icon.

*Tried my first pull request, can you confirm whether it worked?

[ggsava]

It worked fine! Already merged into master!