iOS Icon Generator

The CLI currently supports 2 commands:

• generate: generates an iOS App Icon Set from a base PDF
• mask: generates a new iOS App Icon Sets from a base one, adding a mask at its bottom left which can be customized.
• stub: generates a default iOS App Icon Sets, using a background color, a text and its color.

iOS Icon Generator is built using Ruby, and can be installed using its default local installation in your terminal via:

sudo gem install ios_icon_generator

If you wish not to use sudo permissions to RubyGems, you can follow the instructions of the CocoaPods guys here, by replacing all cocoapods with ios_icon_generator in the shell commands.

It requires both imagemagick and ghostscript, both can be installed using Homebrew:

brew install imagemagick ghostscript

For now, the CLI supports generating app icon sets for all supported platforms:

• iPhone
• iPad
• Apple Watch
• Mac
• Carplay

Please note that the Display P3 color space is not supported yet

And supports generating sticker packs icons for iMessage apps.

You can specify iPhone and iPad at the same time, however iMessage must be specified on its own.

The base syntax of the command is:

icongen generate <PDF Base Icon> [XCAsset Folder] --type=<type>

If the XCAsset Folder is not specified, then the current working is assumed to be the output folder. The type, if not specified, defaults to iphone.

For example, to generate icons for iPhones and iPads, and output the images set in Images.xcassets, run (assuming the path Icon PDF file is also in the current directory and is called Icon.pdf):

icongen generate Icon.pdf Images.xcassets --type=iphone,ipad

There are more options to icongen generate which you can discover by running icongen generate --help.

The application also supports "masking" app icons, adding a small mask at the bottom-left corner of the icons, allowing for example to convert the following icons: Into this:

The command used in the example was (it assumes that AppIcon.appiconset is the original App Icon Set and is in the current working directory):

icongen mask AppIcon.appiconset \
    --mask-shape=square \
    --x-size-ratio=0.30 \
    --y-size-ratio=0.30 \
    --size-offset=0.11 \
    --x-offset=0.1 \
    --y-offset=0.1 \
    --background-color='#A36AE9' \
    --stroke-width-offset=0 \
    --font=Symbol \
    --symbol-color='#FFFFFF'

For now, the command only supports adding a mask into the bottom-left corner, but allowing to add it anywhere is definitely a feature we want.

The command supports a lot of customization through options, and you can find more information about each option by typing icongen mask --help

The application also supports creating "temporary" icons, that you would use during development if you don't have an icon yet (for example at project creation). For example, here are some icons created using various commands:

Here's the command that were run to get each icons above:

#1
icongen stub \
    WS \
    --background-color='#A36AE9' \
    --stroke-width-offset=0 \
    --y-offset=-0.04 \
    --size-offset=0.5 \
    --symbol-color='#FFFFFF'

#2
icongen stub \
    W \
    --background-color='#3A7D31' \
    --font=Symbol \
    --stroke-width-offset=0.01 \
    --y-offset=-0.07 \
    --size-offset=0.5 \
    --symbol-color='#C9C9C9'

#3
icongen stub \
    A \
    --background-color='#000000' \
    --stroke-width-offset=0.01 \
    --stroke-color='#FFFFFF' \
    --font='Arial' \
    --size-offset=0.5 \
    --symbol-color='#000000'

The command supports a lot of customization through options, and you can find more information about each option by typing icongen stub --help.

To set you up for developing on driveshaft, first make sure the repository is cloned and you're in its root folder, and then run the following:

echo "BUNDLE_GEMFILE=\"`pwd`/Gemfile\" bundler exec ruby \"`pwd`/bin/icongen\" \"\${@---help}\"" > /usr/local/bin/icongen-dev
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/icongen-dev

All you'll be all set! To run the development version of icongen from anywhere, just run icongen-dev rather than icongen.
You can then proceed on developing locally on the ios-icon-generator repository, and create a PR whenever a new piece of code is ready to be reviewed and integrated!

To be able to run the test suite, the dependencies libpng and libjpeg are required (on top of imagemagick) to be installed. You can install them via homebrew:

brew install libpng libjpeg

You may then execute the following command to run the test suite:

bundler exec rake