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Gradle android ribbonizer plugin

Modifies launcher icons on debug build

From maskarade·Updated May 8, 2026·View on GitHub·

No longer actively maintained, I recommend [Mikel's easylauncher-gradle-plugin](https://github.com/akaita/easylauncher-gradle-plugin) which might not have seen much love lately either, but seems to still work since the JFrog shutdown. The project is written primarily in Java, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2014. Key topics include: android, gradle-plugin, launcher-icon.

DEPRECATED

No longer actively maintained, I recommend Mikel's easylauncher-gradle-plugin which might not have seen much love lately either, but seems to still work since the JFrog shutdown.

Ribbonizer plugin for Android

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This is a ribbonizer as a Gradle plugin for Android, which adds a ribbon to launcher icons.

Usage

groovy
// in build.gradle buildscript { repositories { jcenter() } dependencies { classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.1.2' classpath 'com.github.gfx.ribbonizer:ribbonizer-plugin:2.1.0' } }
groovy
// in app/build.gradle apply plugin: 'com.github.gfx.ribbonizer' android { // ... buildTypes { debug {/*debuggable build, which will ribbonized automatically*/} beta { //debuggable build which will automatically ribbonized. debuggable true } canary { //non-debuggable build which will no automatically ribbonized. //But, we force one of its flavors. See `ribbonizer` for how-to debuggable false } release {/*non-debuggable build. Will not be rebbonized automatically*/} } productFlavors { local {} qa {} staging {} production {} } } ribbonizer { // "manifest application[android:icon]" is automatically added to the list iconNames "@drawable/ic_notification", "@drawable/widget_preview" builder { variant, iconFile -> // change ribbon colors by product flavors if (variant.flavorName == "local") { return grayRibbonFilter(variant, iconFile) } else if (variant.flavorName == "qa") { // customColorRibbonFilter allows setting any color code def filter = customColorRibbonFilter(variant, iconFile, "#00C89C") // Finer control of the label text can be achieved by setting it manually, or set to // null for an unlabelled ribbon. The default is to use the flavor name. filter.label = "QA" + variant.versionCode return filter } else if (variant.flavorName == "staging") { return yellowRibbonFilter(variant, iconFile) } else if (variant.buildType.name == "debug") { if (variant.flavorName == "production") { // Particular configurations can be skipped by returning no filters return null } else { // Other filters can be applied, as long as they implement Consumer<BufferedImage> return grayScaleFilter(variant, iconFile) } } else { return greenRibbonFilter(variant, iconFile) } } //Although `canary` build-type is marked as `non-debuggable` //we can still force specific variants to be ribbonized: forcedVariantsNames "localCanary" }

Project Structure

plugin/   - The main module of a Gradle plugin
example/  - An example android application that uses this plugin
buildSrc/ - A helper module to use this plugin in example modules

You can test this project with ./gradlew check.

Release Engineering

console
./gradlew bumpMinor # or bumpMajor, bumpPatch make publish # upload artifacts to bintray jcenter

Author And License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 FUJI Goro (gfx) gfuji@cpan.org.

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