Feature get app icon

[rsanjuan87]

Get app icon (--get-app-icon)

The --get-app-icon option allows you to extract the icon of one or more installed applications from the Android device.

Syntax

scrcpy --get-app-icon=<packageID>[:path]

• <packageID>: Required. One or more package IDs, separated by a comma (,) (e.g., com.android.settings,com.android.chrome). If the special value all is used, icons for all installed applications are extracted.
• [:path]: Optional. Destination path to save the extracted icons.

Path behavior

• If path is an existing folder, each icon is saved as <packageID>.png inside that folder.
• If path is an existing file, the extracted icon will overwrite that file, so be careful.
• If path does not exist, the containing folder is created and the file is named with the last segment of the path (regardless of extension).
• If path is tmpDir, the files are stored in the user's temporary folder: scrcpy/icons/<deviceId>.

Examples

• scrcpy --get-app-icon=com.android.settings
• scrcpy --get-app-icon=com.android.settings:~/icon.png
• scrcpy --get-app-icon=com.android.settings,com.android.chrome:$HOME/icons/
• scrcpy --get-app-icon=all:/home/user/all_icons/
• scrcpy --get-app-icon=com.android.chrome,com.android.settings:tmpDir

Notes

• If multiple packageIDs are specified, all indicated icons are extracted.
• For all, the --list-apps functionality is reused to obtain all package IDs and extract their icons.
• If :path is not specified, icons are saved in the current directory.

Tested on MacOS Tahoe + Xiaomi HyperOS 1.0.12 (Android 13)

[rom1v]

Hi,

Thank you for the contribution.

However, I think this feature does not really belong in scrcpy (it could be a separate app to retrieve the icon of an app).

I don't want to add the complexity of extracting, storing, retrieving the icons for a feature which is not really the purpose of scrcpy. It could be useful to retrieve the icons internally to expose it in a client UI if scrcpy had such an UI, but currently it's not the case.

Also refs #5574

[rsanjuan87]

this is a first step of a internal roadmap to get more gui and behavior to the app
feat: get icon
feat: exit on close PR
feat: launch as app (scrcpy icon and name, exit on close)