Canvas Developer Guide

Introducing Canvas
Quick Start
Quick Start—Advanced
Canvas SDK
Canvas Apps and Visualforce Pages
Lightning Component Code Examples
Canvas Apps in a Page Layout or a Mobile Card
Canvas Apps in the Publisher
Canvas Apps in the Chatter Feed
Canvas in the Salesforce Mobile App
Set Canvas App Location and Add it to the Navigation Menu
Salesforce Mobile App Context Considerations
Salesforce Mobile App Access Considerations
Salesforce Mobile App Custom Icons
Salesforce Mobile App Navigation Methods for Use with Canvas Apps
Customizing Your App Lifecycle
Objects
Canvas Limits
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Note: This release is in preview. Features described here don’t become generally available until the latest general availability date that Salesforce announces for this release. Before then, and where features are noted as beta, pilot, or developer preview, we can’t guarantee general availability within any particular time frame or at all. Make your purchase decisions only on the basis of generally available products and features.

Salesforce Mobile App Custom Icons

Custom icons help distinguish your app in the Salesforce mobile app. If you don’t customize the icon for your app, you’ll get the default puzzle-piece icon.

You can customize the icon that is used in the Salesforce navigation menu. You set this icon in the Icon URL entry in the Basic Information section of the connected app settings for your canvas app. From Setup, enter Apps in the Quick Find box, then select Apps and click Edit for your connected app. The icon URL must be a secure HTTPS URL that points to an icon image file. The image file must be in the GIF, JPG, or PNG file format. For the Salesforce navigation menu, the icon cannot be larger than 60 pixels high by 60 pixels wide.

The custom icon that is used in the Salesforce navigation menu is also used in the Chatter tab and the Canvas App Previewer. If your canvas app will be shown in the navigation menu, we recommend that you use a 60x60 pixel size icon and let Salesforce automatically resize the icon to the smaller size that is needed for the Chatter tab and the Canvas App Previewer.

You can also customize the icon that is used in the Salesforce action bar and action menu for a canvas app. The action bar uses the custom icon set for the action that accesses the canvas app, not the custom icon that is associated with the connected app. You set the action icons by uploading a static resource file for your custom icon and then using this static resource as the icon for the global action. The static resource icon file should be in the PNG format, with a size of 120 pixels high by 120 pixels wide. See “Custom Icon Guidelines and Best Practices” in the Salesforce Mobile App Developer Guide for more guidelines on custom action icons.