Swift SwiftUI
Icon Composer and the New App-Icon Era: One Document Instead of Three Exported PNGs
iOS 26 wants your app icon in light, dark, clear, and tinted. The old way was three flat 1024px PNGs that quietly drifted apart. Icon Composer turns it into one layered .icon document the system relights for you. The real workflow from a single SVG to a full set — plus the one decision around icons you can actually unit-test.
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iOS 26 Liquid Glass
We Updated Our App Icon for iOS 26. Apple Now Wants Three of Them. So We Built a Tool.
iOS 26 Liquid Glass quietly tripled the work to ship an app icon — default, tinted, and dark variants for every iPhone app. Existing icon tools haven't caught up. We hit the wall updating ThinkBud last week, so we built a free generator. Here's what changed in iOS 26, why every iOS dev is about to learn this the hard way, and the tool we shipped to handle it.
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