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romannurik/AndroidAssetStudio
A set of web-based tools for generating graphics and other assets that would eventually be in an Android application's res/ directory.
A web-based icon and asset generator for Android development — launcher icons, notification icons, nine-patches, and a few others. It was the go-to tool for this workflow for years. The README explicitly says it's abandoned and points you to icon.kitchen instead.
- The nine-patch generator is still genuinely useful and not well-replicated elsewhere in a web UI
- Canvas-based image processing pipeline in imagelib/ (analysis, effects, drawing) is reasonably clean JavaScript if you need to study how pixel manipulation works in the browser
- The form/field abstraction in studio/forms/ is a decent pattern for building live-preview generators — each field type is its own module with clear contracts
- Explicitly unmaintained — the badge is right there in the README, and the author is pointing you elsewhere
- Targets Android asset specs from circa 2016–2018; adaptive icon layers, themed icons, and per-API density rules have evolved since and are not covered
- Build tooling is gulp + webpack + babel with a 2019-era config — expect dependency resolution pain if you try to fork or extend it
- icon.kitchen and Android Studio's built-in tools do everything this does, better, and are actively kept up to date