Scaling issue:How to make android actionBar icon rectangular?

Question

I am developing simple android application in which I want to Customise my actionBar icon which is generally named ic_launcher.png in drawable directory.The issue I am facing is in scaling and resizing of icon image.

Can I add rectangular image as Icon(ic_launcher.png) ?

because everytime I upload an rectangular icon the eclipse generates a square image,hence diminishing image size.

This is what I am looking for:

And this is what I have currently:

Note:Images aren't from actula project and are taken just for referencial purpose.

Answer 1

I think you need to tell the Actionbar to use a logo instead of an icon.

See this: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/ActionBar.html#setLogo(int)

and this:

Actionbar Logo size?