# Android push notification icon requirements?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/android-push-notification-icon-requirements/117317
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 9, 2019, 11:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/android-push-notification-icon-requirements/117317 "2019-05-09T23:18:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@nexo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nexo)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2019, 11:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/android-push-notification-icon-requirements/117317/1 "2019-05-09T23:18:21Z")
Hi, I’ve set my push notification icon to my logo, however, a [white] circle appears instead.
What am I doing wrong here?
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### Author:  [@nexo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nexo)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2019, 11:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/android-push-notification-icon-requirements/117317/2 "2019-05-09T23:20:20Z")
I thought of an idea: Is it a circle because Android doesn’t distinguish notification icons (just generalizes all icons to be white), so the green lines should actually be transparent?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2019, 12:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/android-push-notification-icon-requirements/117317/3 "2019-05-10T00:20:14Z")
That icon is tricky.
It must be monochromatic, only white on alpha background.
[https://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-5.0-changes.html#NotificationsMaterialDesignStyle](https://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-5.0-changes.html#NotificationsMaterialDesignStyle)
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### Author:  [@featheredtoast](https://meta.discourse.org/u/featheredtoast)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/android-push-notification-icon-requirements/117317/4 "2019-05-10T00:45:13Z")
For reference, the quick overview to to convert an icon to a transparent monochrome image in [GIMP](https://www.gimp.org/):
desaturate by luminosity (converts to black+white), layer → transparency → color to alpha (adds transparency), and finally invert colors (flips to white)
The same methods should work on photoshop or your image editor of choice.
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### Author:  [@nexo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nexo)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2019, 5:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/android-push-notification-icon-requirements/117317/5 "2019-05-10T05:45:10Z")
Thanks for the tips! 😃 I was able to do it in LunaPic.
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### Author:  [@Eduardo\_Braga](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Eduardo_Braga)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2019, 12:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/android-push-notification-icon-requirements/117317/6 "2019-08-13T00:53:50Z")
I’m a little confused how this function works! 😕
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### Author:  [@featheredtoast](https://meta.discourse.org/u/featheredtoast)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2019, 1:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/android-push-notification-icon-requirements/117317/7 "2019-08-13T01:44:28Z")
Hey Eduardo, this has been resolved here, and I don’t understand what you are asking for. Can you start a new topic about your issue, and give some details please?
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### Author:  [@featheredtoast](https://meta.discourse.org/u/featheredtoast)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2019, 1:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/android-push-notification-icon-requirements/117317/8 "2019-08-13T01:44:31Z")