Help Robots Everywhere!

[Octafish]

Two of my apps, Google Drive and Amazon, have the green android robot chap as their
icon on my homescreen, but have their normal icons when seen in the app drawer.

Any Ideas?

 

[Rukbat]

Remove them from the homescreen and put them back again.

 

[Octafish]

Thanks, it worked.

Why?

 

[Rukbat]

I can't tell you why it happened, but I can tell you that if you uninstall an app, then reinstall it, that will happen. There may be other things that can cause it. (When you uninstall the app, the shortcut on the homescreen has no app to refer to for an icon, so it reverts to the generic Android icon. When you reinstall the app it has no effect on the shortcuts on the homescreen.)

 

[Mr. Lucky]

You'll also see the little Android guy (briefly) on home screen shortcuts after turning on your phone if the app has been moved to sd, as the sd card is the last thing to load at boot time.