A tiny library to read .ico files in java. Uses ImageIO to parse the contained png and bmp files. This package is only about 11KB and focuses only on loading .ico images.

The .ico parser is based on code from org.apache.commons:commons-imaging.

You can download binaries from the releases page.

Alternatively you can pull it from the central Maven repositories:

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.github.qurben</groupId>
  <artifactId>jico</artifactId>
  <version>2.0.0</version>
</dependency>

This library comes with one method that can be used to read a file, input stream or url containing a .ico file to a list of images.

The main usecase is reading a .ico file and setting it as the icon on a Swing JFrame, but it can also be

Use the jico.Ico.read(...) to read a list of java.awt.image.BufferedImage from a File, URL or InputStream.

JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.setIconImages(Ico.read(getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("favicon.ico")));

This code is under the Apache Licence v2.

See the NOTICE.md file for required notices and attributions.