Action icon forms the most of visual representation of an action. To change Action Icon - tap on it. The following action icon types are supported: 

1. App - an icon of some existing app of FavIcon of some site.
   
2. Custom - the user can design the icon by choosing glyph, foreground, and background colors. 
   
3. Contact - a properly scaled and arranged photo of a contact. A contact must be already chosen for an action (and stored as an action variable) to allow use of Contact Icon.
   
4. Photo - a properly scaled and arranged photo taken by camera or chosen from Photos app.

Decorations

You can manage action icon decorations by taping the icon at the right of Action Icon.

Action icon may have small decorations on the bottom corners of main icon. It is possible to specify None if no decorations are desired. It is possible to let a decoration to override the main icon via the "Decoration as Action Icon" option. This option, for example, can be useful for Bookmarks to allow site's FavIcon to became the action icon. 

The "Action Icon Size" property allow choosing either small, large or wide size of action icon. You should use larger sizes for actions having glances to provide sufficient space to present them.

Colors

You can manage custom action icon colors by taping the icon at the right of Action Icon.

You can specify foreground and background colors for custom action icons. Turn ON the "Auto" property for foreground color to let Alloy assigning it automatically, depending on environment the action icon is shown in. It is possible to have transparent background by turing ON the "Clear" option. If background color is not transparent it is possible to render it with no gradient by turing ON the "Flat" option.

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