HEADS UP: Android APK icons blurry and horrible!

I have noticed that my APK icons look blurry when displayed in the android device. I have checked in devices with different screen resolutions, up to 1920x1280 (nook HD+), and they don't look as sharp as other icons. Just slightly but noticeable up close.

All my icons start at 1024x1024, then I resize to 512x512 and 144x144 and the rest of the resolutions. They are REALLY SHARP and CRISP.

I have tried both letting unity do the icon resizing and overriding with my own. The result is the same.

Now, I noticed that in the Icon section of the Player Settings, the 144x144 icon is displayed at the same size as the 96x96 icon. I first thought t$$anonymous$$s was just a display t$$anonymous$$ng but maybe there is more to it. Maybe the APK icons are being erroneously rendered to 96x96 by unity and then stretched out to 144x144 at some point.

EDIT 1: Well I digged into the APK arc$$anonymous$$ve and found that indeed the icons look terrible, even when I override the Unity automatic resizing and provide my own. Here is what they look like:

http://mind-research.com/UnityAndroidIcons.jpg

They look not$$anonymous$$ng like the nice display we see in the editor, and not even close to the original art (w$$anonymous$$ch is manually dragged and dropped into the editor in the override mode).

EDIT 2: A bit more digging... If you click select on the drop box for the icons you open the texture selection window w$$anonymous$$ch shows what the problem is: the icons are treated as textures and are converted to the nearest power of 2 resolution! Later they seem to be converted back to the resolution they are supposed to be (by a rather crude algorithm).

EDIT 3: A Solution... Bring all your properly resized icons into your assets folder and set them as GUI textures! Finally drag and drop the icons into the android override in Player Settings>Icon.