Making a Macro Button Icon Bigger

[peterinhawk]

Is it possible to make the icon for a macro button bigger on the android phone? I know various launchers allow you to set icons to be bigger but that impacts all app icons and not a selected icon. So can you make it so that an icon for a particular widget button is bigger than the usual icon size on a home screen?

 

[Jacob L]

You just long press it and it should show you white pull handles. You just pull the white handles

 

[420]

Is it possible to make the icon for a macro button bigger on the android phone? I know various launchers allow you to set icons to be bigger but that impacts all app icons and not a selected icon. So can you make it so that an icon for a particular widget button is bigger than the usual icon size on a home screen?

I don't think you can do this on the stock android homescreen, but most if not all custom launchers allow you to do this and not just for all widgets/shortcuts at once but also for each individual widget/shortcut following the method jacob described.

 

[Snurre]

I can't get this to work
When pulling the handles it makes the surrounding area bigger not the icon itself

I'm using Nova

 

[Snurre]

It would be very nice if the icons on the buttons could be same size as all other icons
I've made a button to open MD and you can see the diffence on the screenshot
The first icon is the default MD app and the second is a widget button just to open MD
I've used the app icon to the button but it's obviesly not the same size
Any solutions?

 

[Dm114]

It would be very nice if the icons on the buttons could be same size as all other icons
I've made a button to open MD and you can see the diffence on the screenshot
The first icon is the default MD app and the second is a widget button just to open MD
I've used the app icon to the button but it's obviesly not the same size
Any solutions?

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As a workaround you can use 'MacroDroid shortcut' instead of 'MacroDroid custom icon' or use an app such as Shortcut Maker

 

[Snurre]

Aaah, it seems that MD shortcut works
Thx

 

[Snurre]

Oh, I think I just was a little bit too quick
It's ok for a 'static' icon, but I can't change it dynamicly like 'Modify widget button'

 

[Dm114]

Oh, I think I just was a little bit too quick
It's ok for a 'static' icon, but I can't change it dynamicly like 'Modify widget button'

I didn't notice you had to change icon image or label. I'm afraid it's not possible because even other icon apps that dynamically change image/label are smaller.

 

[420]

Oh, I think I just was a little bit too quick
It's ok for a 'static' icon, but I can't change it dynamicly like 'Modify widget button'

Maybe KWGT app is an option? Surely you can resize those widgets on nova launcher? Or am i wrong to assume this? I personally use square home launcher and i'm pretty sure it let's me resize absolutely everything.

 

[peterinhawk]

Maybe KWGT app is an option? Surely you can resize those widgets on nova launcher? Or am i wrong to assume this? I personally use square home launcher and i'm pretty sure it let's me resize absolutely everything.

Agree with the idea. I know it's easy to resize a Kustom widget on the home screen and assigning a MD Macro to the widget 'touch' to run a macro. But then getting the KWGT widget to act on the 'modify MD icon' I'm not sure. The only way I could figure it was to get the KWGT widget to run a MD macro each time you pressed it, then get MD to change a variable each time it changed which in turn fed the variable back to KWGT to initiate a change to the KWGT icon - if you see what I mean? I think this would work - but I'm a bit stumped on how to get the MD variable into KWGT.

 

[Dm114]

Agree with the idea. I know it's easy to resize a Kustom widget on the home screen and assigning a MD Macro to the widget 'touch' to run a macro. But then getting the KWGT widget to act on the 'modify MD icon' I'm not sure. The only way I could figure it was to get the KWGT widget to run a MD macro each time you pressed it, then get MD to change a variable each time it changed which in turn fed the variable back to KWGT to initiate a change to the KWGT icon - if you see what I mean? I think this would work - but I'm a bit stumped on how to get the MD variable into KWGT.

You're right: it's what I'm using. Not to change icons but to pass variables from MD to KWGT. It's quite quick and simple...

On the MD side: Applications>Tasker/Plugin Locale, then choose KWGT
On the KWGT side: get the value with $br(tasker,your_MD_variable_name)$.
And that's it!

 

[peterinhawk]

You're right: it's what I'm using. Not to change icons but to pass variables from MD to KWGT. It's quite quick and simple...

On the MD side: Applications>Tasker/Plugin Locale, then choose KWGT
On the KWGT side: get the value with $br(tasker,your_MD_variable_name)$.
And that's it!

Thanks, but I think if you can change the variable on the MD side, for example in an If - ELSE macro and the variable is passed to KWGT as you say above then KWGT is capable of changing an icon dependent on the value of the variable in its own 'IF' formula. For example a different colour or even different icon based on this value.

 

[Dm114]

Thanks, but I think if you can change the variable on the MD side, for example in an If - ELSE macro and the variable is passed to KWGT as you say above then KWGT is capable of changing an icon dependent on the value of the variable in its own 'IF' formula. For example a different colour or even different icon based on this value.

As in KWGT an icon is an image, you can't change the color of an image. But you can draw a frame or background rounding the image and change its color according the value of the MD variable. Or draw a button with provided shapes and graphical effects.