Make Transparent background of android icons in eclipse

Question

How to make android icons with transparent background using eclipse.I know that we can make icons by eclipse->new->other->android icon set but how to make them with transparent background?Any help please.

Solution 1

Eclipse isn't an image editing program. If it has some basic functionality built in for that, I wouldn't recommend using it for design. If you have Photoshop, or can download GIMP, use those instead for icon design.

Also, be sure to save them as PNG and not JPG, as JPG does not support transparency.

Solution 2

If your icon is transparent background and you would like to keep it while creating a new icon using Android Eclipse, clicking Shape None will do the trick.

Solution 3

Once you actually create your image, you can set the background to transparent using

@android:color/transparent