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Designing Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android
When developing Android apps or designing graphics for mobile apps, it is essential to conform to certain guidelines. Using graphics made for different systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign images will look weird at best, or will render your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst.Producing Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps Description: When designing Android apps or drawing graphics for mobile apps, one must conform to certain guidelines. Using icons made for different systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign images will look out of place at best, or will make your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There exist precise guidelines available for designing standard-compliant Android icons. Different design guidelines are published for tab icons and menu graphics.
Tab icons represent individual tabs in tabbed UI. Tab icons should be supplied in two distinct states: selected and unselected. It is recommended that tab icons are created as simple, flat shapes as opposed to images drawn in 3D or isometric projection.
Android OS and Android apps can run on a variety of different platforms employing a wide range of hardware. In connection to icon images, those devices can have different display sizes, screen resolutions, pixel density and dimensions. To accommodate the variety of displays, Android developers should supply all tab icons used in their apps in at least three resolutions to be drawn on low, medium, and high density screens. Pixel-wise, the outer boundaries for the three resolutions are defined as 24x24, 32x32, and 48x48 pixels. Inner dimensions should not exceed 22x22, 28x28, and 42x42 pixels respectively. By including all three standard sizes, designers can ensure that their apps will display properly on a variety of devices running the Android OS.
Menu icons are displayed in the "options" menu, and are displayed to users when they press the Menu button. Similar to tab icons, menu icons are specified as flat, grayscale images. Just as tab icons, developers cannot use 3D or isometric projections.
Pixel sizes for menu icons are defined in a slightly more complex way compared to tab icons. Instead of just two resolutions defined for tab graphics (inner shape and boundary box), the inner shape of menu icons can be smaller or larger depending on whether they are square-shaped or not. If a menu icon is square-shaped, its size should be smaller than for icons shaped otherwise. The reason for specifying two different sizes is to establish a consistent visual size across the two icon types.
The outer dimensions for low, medium, and high resolution icons are defined as 36x36, 48x48, and 72x72 pixels respectively. Inner shapes for square, low-definition icons is 22x22 pixels, while non-square icons should fit into a boundary box sized 24x24 dots. Similarly, mdpi icons should fit 30x30 and 32x32 pixel boundaries, while high-definition images should fit into 44x44 and 48x48 pixel boundaries respectively.
Instead of designing your own icons conforming to these guidelines, Android developers have an option of obtaining stock graphics from professional designers. As an example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft include 112 unique tab images in selected and unselected states and all three standard sizes. If an additional size is needed, developers can produce images at any size by accessing scalable vector sources. Android Tab Icons can be previewed and downloaded at http://www.aha-soft.com/stock-icons/android-tab-icons.htm.
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