Joseph QuigleyMar 13

Request: I need free placeholder app icons until I can pay a human designer to make me something.

Seems like generative AI would be good for this. Any free recommendations that aren't by weirdo companies trying to sell you a "prompt-to-prod" icon pipeline for $10/mo?

Just asking free Gemini/Claude/ChatGPT to make something is an exercise in futility. I might as well just slap a letter in a nice font onto a 512x512 canvas in Affinity Designer...

#help #icon #design #app #appdevelopment #iOS #iosdev

Show threadBruno PhilipeMar 13
@quigs Use Icon Composer (bundled with Xcode), then plop an SF Symbol (copied as image) into the canvas
Show threadtiboMar 14
@brunoph @quigs I think this is forbidden: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/sf-symbols
SF Symbols | Apple Developer Documentation

SF Symbols provides thousands of consistent, highly configurable symbols that integrate seamlessly with the San Francisco system font, automatically aligning with text in all weights and sizes.

Apple Developer Documentation
Show threadJoseph QuigleyMar 14
@fromtibo @brunoph IIRC only when submitting your app to the app store. Right now I’m staring at two developer apps and the geniuses at Apple only give me icons, no names, so I need something temporary until a human can make me a real icon.
Show threadtibo
@quigs @brunoph Oh yes, of course, I didn’t understand it wasn’t for the App Store.
Mar 14 at 6:27pmIvory for iOS
Show threadJoseph QuigleyMar 14

@fromtibo @brunoph

To your point, I probably can’t use SF symbols for TestFlight though! </note_to_self>

Show threadtiboMar 14
@quigs @brunoph That I don’t know :)