 |
|
 | |
 | |
 | |
 | |
 | |
 | |
|
 | ||||||||
|
 |
 |
|
 Basket Icon |
|
Add Basket icon to cartIcon sizes: 256x256, 100x100, 64x64, 60x60, 48x48, 40x40, 32x32, 30x30, 24x24, 20x20, 16x16, 512x512
File formats: ICO, GIF, PNG, BMP
Purchase entire Large Black Icons now! View Large Black Icons now!
Download demo icons
Making Tab and Menu Icons for Android
When developing mobile apps or designing graphics for Android apps, one must follow srict guidelines. Re-using graphics made for other operating systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign icons will look out of place at best, or will make your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst.Producing Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps Description: When developing mobile apps or designing graphics for Android apps, it is essential to conform to srict guidelines. Using images designed for other systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign icons will look weird at best, or will make your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There are strict guidelines available for designing standard-compliant Android icons. Different design guidelines are available for tab icons and menu icons.
Tab icons are drawn in individual tabs in tabbed interface. Tab icons must be supplied in two distinct states: selected and unselected. It is required that tab icons are designed as simple, flat shapes as opposed to images shown in 3D or isometric projection.
Android OS and Android apps are used on a multitude of hardware platforms using a wide range of hardware. In reference to icon images, those devices can have different screen sizes, display resolutions, pixel density and dimensions. To accommodate the wide range of screens, Android developers must supply all tab icons used in their apps in at least three resolutions to be shown on low, medium, and high density screens. Pixel-wise, the outer boundaries for the three sizes 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 wide range of devices running the Android OS.
Menu icons are drawn 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, greyscale images. Like tab icons, developers should not use 3D or isometric projections.
Screen sizes for menu icons are defined in a slightly more comprehensive way compared to tab icons. Instead of just two sizes described for tab icons (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 with different shapes. The reason for specifying two different sizes is to establish a consistent visual size across the two icon types.
The outer dimensions for ldpi, mdpi and hdpi icons are described 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 boxes respectively.
Instead of drawing your own graphics conforming to these guidelines, Android developers have an option of getting ready-made graphics from professional designers. For example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft include 112 unique tab graphics in both states and all standard resolutions. If an additional size is needed, developers can render icons at any size by opening scalable vector sources. Android Tab Icons can be previewed and downloaded at http://www.aha-soft.com/stock-icons/android-tab-icons.htm.
Copyright © 2009-2022 Aha-Soft. All rights reserved.
|
More info
