Ask HN: As a developer how do you create or find icons for your apps?

I need a icon for a side-project I'm developing.

It is an Android app, but the problem here is that as a developer, I haven't almost no design skills.

Is there any tool that facilitates the creation of icons? With some ready-made templates that you will just modifying or overriding some pictures?

Ps: At the moment I do not intend to invest in a designer to create the icon, so I need another way to get that icon!

Also, Unicode [2] has a lot of useful icons that might do, particularly in the dingbats [3] and miscellaneous symbols [4] blocks.

[0]: http://glyphicons.com/

[1]: http://getbootstrap.com/components/#glyphicons

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_symbols

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbats_%28Unicode_block%29#U...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols

I'm definitely not a designer, so I use a professional designer for real (consumer) projects. For just an app icon, creative talent is actually pretty cheap - e.g. fiverr had 225 listings for 'app icon.'

While it is a bit intimidating to roll your own, it isn't actually all that hard. Here's what I've done:

1) Download a few component SVGs from http://thenounproject.com . For example, if you want a star on your icon, search for 'star' and download the one you want.

2) Load all of these SVGs into Pixelmator, or an Adobe tool, or GIMP.

3) Resize/recolor/shade/layer the individual SVGs until you get something passable. Save it in a very high-resolution as a master.

4) Resize this master into all of the different sizes you need. I think Android has roughly five different icon sizes, from 144x144 to 36x36. If you're comfortable on the command line, ImageMagick does quick work of this resizing.

Good Luck!