element-hq
Dark mode app icon
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Apparently iOS18 supports dark mode icons. It autogens these when it can, but EX's icon is too complex for it. Therefore we should probably provide our own.
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Credit to @maddie:spyhoodle.me:
On the left you see an autogenned dark-mode classic Element icon. But on the right, there is no dark-mode icon.
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Just adding context, ios 18 also allows coloring them to a theme, and based on how it treats that, I suspect its the gradient. i think if the background gradient was flattened it would be able to generate one on the fly.
I would love if we were able to change the Element X icon to the one that the old Element app has as well, similar to how you can change the icon in the GitHub app. This would require a bit of extra work though.
In iOS 26, it should be relatively trivial to make the icon adapt to any theme with Icon Composer:
