Using your own icons

The plugin provides a default set of icons based upon the default Quick Action Icons supplied by Apple (Human Interface Guidelines), all of which have been mapped and come built into the plugin for use on all platforms under the Plugin.AppShortcuts.Icons namespace.

If these icons don’t fit your needs, or don’t quite match your color scheme, you can supply your own bespoke images. Use the CustomIcon class and provide the image file name, exactly as you would with any other local image file into the constructor.

Local images in Xamarin Forms

Creating a custom icon

Each platform has different specifications for the icons needed for shortcuts.

Android

Width: 48px
Height: 48px

Along with PNGs and JPGs, Android also supports VectorDrawables. A sample icon can be found here

• Android App Shortcuts design guidelines
• Material icons

iOS

Width: 35px
Height: 35px

Images should be added to the AssetCatalog with the Render As: option set to Template Image

• Human Interface Guidelines - Quick Actions

UWP

Width: 44px
Height: 44px

• UWP icon specifications
• UWP icons

Icon Templates

• Sketch Template
• Adobe XD

To see this in the context of an app, please see the sample provided

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