How to Retrieve Icon Identifiers for Android and iOS in Ionic 8?

[tesplugNaN]

Hello everyone,

I'm working on an Ionic 8 project and I'm using the @capawesome/capacitor-app-shortcuts plugin to add app shortcuts. According to the plugin documentation, the icon property requires a numeric identifier for the icons.

Could anyone guide me on how to obtain these numeric identifiers for icons on both Android and iOS? Specifically, I'm looking for the steps to get the resource identifier for an icon placed in the res/drawable directory for Android and in the Assets.xcassets for iOS.

Thank you!

[robingenz]

The icon to display. On Android, the icon is the constant value of the R.drawable enum. On iOS, the icon is the constant value of the UIApplicationShortcutIcon.IconType enum. Attention: On iOS, the icon and the description must be used together.

See Shortcut.

[tesplugNaN]

Does this mean that it's not possible to use custom icons for app shortcuts on iOS? If not, are there any workarounds or solutions to implement custom icons for shortcuts in iOS?

[robingenz]

No, as far as I know this is not possible on iOS.

[tesplugNaN]

I'm currently using the cordova-plugin-3dtouch, and it is possible to set shortcut icons directly from the Assets folder.

[robingenz]

You're right. I've just had a look. Feel free to create a feature request.