Top Flutter Home Screen, App Icon and Name packages

Last updated: May 18, 2026

Customizing your Flutter app's presence on a user's device is a critical step in finalizing your app for release. This involves setting up the App Launcher Icon, configuring the App Package Name, and creating engaging Home Screen Widgets.

App Launcher Icons & Package Names

The best practice for setting up your app launcher icon is to avoid doing it manually across Android and iOS folders, which can be repetitive and error-prone. Instead, use community-standard automation tools to generate the correct resolutions and update platform configuration files directly from a single high-quality image. Similarly, safely updating your package name across the codebase and native files is typically handled by automation packages.

Home Screen Widgets

Unlike regular app elements, home screen widgets cannot be built solely using Flutter widgets. They are native components that run outside your Flutter app's lifecycle. To implement them, you must build the UI natively (using Kotlin/XML/Compose for Android and SwiftUI/WidgetKit for iOS) and use a bridge package to share data between your Flutter app and the native widget extensions.

The complete list of Flutter packages that can be used to update the app launcher icon, update the app package name, create home screen widgets, open another app from your app, and perform other app launcher activities is provided below.