gnprice
commented
10 months ago Here's the iOS version of the icon from #414, with the main app in the frame for comparison:
And here's the icon for Android as it appears on a current version of Android (my Pixel 8 with Android 14):
What's happening with that white space is that Android (or rather, the stock launcher app for Android — Pixels and others will behave this way, but other vendors will be different, including IIRC Samsung) forces the icons to fit in a circle. When the icon we give it doesn't fit in the circle, it shrinks it and puts that on a white background.
So some things that don't look great with this icon, to my eye, include: that white space; the red is kind of jarring; the red looks a lot like a notification badge on iOS (it's a slightly different color, and in the wrong part of the icon, but close enough to catch your eye when glancing past it); the text is too lightweight; the text is slightly off center; the placement of the banner relative to the Z doesn't feel quite aligned.
Again, I'd be happy with either a design that fixes those and otherwise brings this up to our standards, or a design based on some other concept entirely.
terpimost
criticic
chinmay7016
During the beta period, a broad audience of Zulip enthusiasts — first the community on chat.zulip.org, then others who read the Zulip blog and want to try a better mobile Zulip experience — will be installing this app on their phones where most of them also have the existing production app installed. The app should therefore have an app icon that
With #414, we get an icon that checks the first two boxes (resolving #390) but not so much the third. It's adapted from the one we've long used for debug builds of zulip-mobile, which is a use case that has the same first two needs (clearly Zulip, distinct from main icon) but where it really hasn't mattered if it looks good.
The basic concept of that icon is that it's the Zulip logo (just like the main app's icon) but then with a banner reading "BETA" overlaid on it. I'd be happy either with a better-designed execution of that concept, or with some other concept if we like that better.