Have you ever wondered how much fun you can have with Android icons? Do you enjoy pushing APIs to their limits? If so, let's build a game with icons! This talk covers the process of creating playable games using just home screen icons. Along the way, we’ll run into (and work around) platform constraints, launcher inconsistencies, performance quirks, and other challenges that make this both challenging and rewarding. This likely isn't a feature you'd add to your production app, but there are still real-world use cases that exercises like these can teach us! You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of Android’s shortcut and icon capabilities and hopefully a few ideas for unconventional projects of your own.