Google Play Store: You need fix your high-res icon. It is not a valid image

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sajattack picture sajattack · Jun 18, 2013 · Viewed 39.7k times · Source

This is the error message I get when attempting to give my app an image on the play store. Here is the image.

enter image description here

It was created in GIMP. Please help, this is keeping me from getting my app up.

Answer

Marcin Mikosik picture Marcin Mikosik · Jan 25, 2014

As described on Google Play Store developer console, icon image should be:
512 x 512, 32-bit PNG (with alpha)

Your picture is (I checked with "file" Linux command)
PNG image data, 512 x 512, 8-bit colormap, non-interlaced

This happened because your image uses only a few colors and gimp decided to use png format with indexed colors so image file is as small as possible.

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