Adding Icons to your Home Screen

When adding icons directly from within Hermit, Android OS unfortunately adds unnecessary Hermit branding in the bottom right corner. We don’t like it either, since it takes away from the Web Apps experience, but we have no choice, it is Android adding this, not our choice.

For a better-looking icon, do the following steps. It’s the only way that Android will let you have home screen icons without any branding from the app they come from.

Touch-and-Hold

1. After adding a Lite App in Hermit, go back to your home screen.
2. Touch an empty area and hold it (long-click).
3. Press the “Widgets” button to add a new widget.
4. Scroll down and pick “Hermit → Create a Lite App” from that list.
5. From the list that appears, pick the Lite App you want to create a Lite App for.
6. Boom, good-looking icon on your home screen!

Automatic Add

If you don’t want to follow the steps above, you can do it within one click, but note that Android OS will add a badge with the Hermit icon in the bottom right corner, there is nothing we can do about it.

Hermit follows the Android API correctly, and if Automatic Add does not work on your phone, please contact the developer of your launcher app and report this bug.

Custom App Icons

Use your Own Icons

1. Launch your Hermit Lite App.
2. Tap on the Settings button to open the “Quick Settings” sidebar.
3. Within Quick Settings, tap on the “More Settings” button.
4. Under “Theme”, find the current icon, and tap on it to change.
5. Pick an icon and set it as your new icon!

Icon Packs

1. Launch your Hermit Lite App.
2. Tap on the Settings button to open the “Quick Settings” sidebar.
3. Within Quick Settings, tap on the “More Settings” button.
4. Under “Theme”, find the current icon, and tap on it to change.
5. Pick any icon from your installed Icon Packs. (If your icon pack is not visible in the list, please contact the developer of that icon pack for help.)