Hi! I’ve read what the following page says about the app logo:
“We encourage you to provide an icon that reflects your business or brand. This icon should be square and up to 196 X 196 pixels in size. We automatically resize it for different environments.”
This is clear enough but I’m still wondering how many of the logos on sample apps (made both by fellow creators and by AppSheet) have been made. Here are some questions I have in that regard:
Is there a library of creative commons (not sure if this is the right term) images that we can borrow or combine without concern about copyright?
In addition to the “custom” option, AppSheet has a very limited set of logos from which we can choose when we make an app. I’ve also noticed that there are quite a few interesting logos that are used in AppSheet sample apps. May we use one of those logos if it seems to fit the purpose of the app we are building and we don’t want to try to make our own?
Any recommendations regarding software or services to facilitate icon and/or logo building?
Hello @Kirk_Masden, i don’t actually create the logos for my apps, i’ve found https://icons8.com/ to be a pretty decent place to download some that others have created instead, it lets you download small image sizes for free, which is just what we need for logos.
I know it’s not related to logo creation, just leaving it here in case you need some inspiration for making your own logos hehe.
I was quite curious, though, about how other people are doing this.
I think that the range of logos that users can choose from for prototypes is extremely limited. It would be nice if AppSheet could expand this, as they once expanded the selection of icons.
I think it’s bigger than it should be as a logo but it works.
By the way, with sample or prototype apps, logos are replaced when copied. I’ve been asking about why this happens for a while now but have never gotten an official response. When a sample app is copied the ONLY part of it that is not copied, as far as I can see, is the branding. I would think that AppSheet would want to encourage the creation and distribution of user-created sample apps but invalidating the branding would seem to discourage it:
[Allow branding of deployed prototype apps to remain unchanged](https://community.appsheet.com/t/allow-branding-of-deployed-prototype-apps-to-remain-unchanged/9601) Feature Requests
If one wishes to make a prototype app as a contribution to the community, it would be nice if the branding images could be left in tact when that prototype is copied. I am happy to make my prototype app freely available to other users but I was I could control the default appearance. Currently, when prototype apps are copied, the “App logo” and “Launch image” are change randomly to an AppSheet default image, which is often completely inappropriate to the app. It strikes me as odd that when can…
haha, they are flying over Tokyo. In terms of Gif images for Appsheet, I m playing around with it, using like an animated banner like this. Set gif to image header for detail view and add another text column to turn it over to dynamic banner? [73E8C6C5-1E6F-4CA5-A949-13CA57457439] To generate gif file, i found Canva is actually useful. https://www.canva.com/pro/animator/ Once we create the animation, then download as GIf and push into Appsheet.
You can create GIFs easily, and as this sample, you can place on the appsheet app to use like a animated banner.
