Remove alpha channel in an image

Question

I have an app icon for iOS but Apple doesn\'t allow alpha to be in the image. How to remove this alpha channel? I only have the png image with me I don\'t have the source fi

Answer 1

I put Nikita Pushkar's very nice solution into a shell script that converts all iOS icons found in res/icon/ios:

It uses brew to install imagemagick if not available, so I guess it will run only on Mac.

#! /usr/bin/env bash
#
# remove alpha channel from PNG images when App Store upload fails
#
# taken from https://stackoverflow.com/a/52962485 - @Nikita Pushkar
#
# make sure to have brew installed, see https://brew.sh:
#   /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
#
# make sure to have imagemagick installed, see https://imagemagick.org:
#   brew install imagemagick
#

if command -v convert; then
    echo "imagemagick seems to be installed"
else
    echo "imagemagick not installed, trying to install ..."
    if command -v brew; then
        echo "brew is installed, using it"
    else
        echo "brew not installed, trying to install ..."
        /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
    fi

    brew install imagemagick
fi

for i in `ls res/icon/ios/*.png`;
do
    echo "convert $i"
    convert $i -background white -alpha remove -alpha off $i;
done