768579 - High-resolution icons for Kindle devices

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Theme and Visual Design, defect)

Description

[JR Conlin [:jrconlin,:jconlin]]

User is reporting low quality icon for Kindle display:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ultramookie/7448658740/

Comment 1

[alex_mayorga]

Attachment: Screen capture of Nightly's blurry icon on Kindle

This bug exists on Nightly too.

Comment 2

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Still an issue on the HDX, all the way through to 28.

Ian, do we have assets up to 675x675? We can't necessarily stuff these in our APK (though I'd love to try it out), but we ought to have these ready in case we hit the Amazon app store someday.

Guidelines:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9308912/android-how-to-put-correct-app-icons-sizes-including-for-amazon-kindle-fire
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8159879/how-to-embed-a-high-resolution-icon-in-a-non-amazon-appstore-kindle-fire-app

Comment 3

[Ian Barlow (:ibarlow)]

Check out these gigantor icons! http://cl.ly/3x1K270t2t1o

Warning: while they are very pretty, they are also really big files relatively speaking. Maybe we should take some comparison screenshots with these vs the XXHDPI (144x144) icons we already have in our builds.

Comment 4

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Let's put this on my plate for now.

Comment 5

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

GCP found a tool called pngquant (http://pngquant.org/) that reduces the size of PNGs substantially, even more than pngcrush.

Comment 6

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Filed (and addressed) Bug 959833 for pngquant. Unlikely to be a good fit for this bug, though -- too much visible dithering. A different approach to pngcrushing might work.

Comment 7

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Current thinking on this is that shipping these in the APK would be a bit of a hack (you need to supply grossly oversized icons in an existing bucket) -- the Fire expects to download the icons it needs from the Appstore.

I'll investigate whether shipping xxxhdpi in Bug 959379 will improve matters.

Comment 8

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

The Fire does *not* look at xxxhdpi when searching for a huge icon.

Comment 9

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Further to Comment 7: this is a pseudo-WONTFIX.

We will still need the very large icons for uploading to the Amazon Appstore, but we won't need to include them in the APK for that.

We might consider shipping the very large icons (e.g., 675x675 as xhdpi instead of 96x96) in Nightly and Aurora builds for sideloaders, *if* standard Android devices are shown to handle this correctly *or* we're willing to maintain separate Kindle sideload APKs. But I don't think that's a goal right now.

Leaving open for the assets in Comment 3.

Comment 10

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