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Designing Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps
When designing mobile apps or designing graphics for Android apps, one must follow srict guidelines. Re-using graphics designed for different 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 hardly recognizable at worst.Making Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android Description: When designing Android apps or designing graphics for Android apps, one must follow srict 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 are precise guidelines available in reference to Android icons. Different design guidelines are available for tab icons and menu images.
Tab icons represent individual tabs in tabbed interface. Tab icons must be supplied in two distinct states: selected and unselected. It is recommended that tab icons are drawn as simple, flat shapes as opposed to icons drawn 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 dimensions and density. To accommodate the wide range of screens, Android developers must provide all tab icons used in their apps in at least three resolutions to be displayed on low, medium, and high density displays. Resolution-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 supplying all three standard resolutions, designers can ensure that their apps will display properly on a variety of platforms running the Android OS.
Menu icons are displayed in the "options" menu, and are shown to users when they press the Menu button. Similar to tab icons, menu icons are specified as flat, grayscale images. Like tab icons, developers cannot use 3D or isometric projections.
Screen sizes for menu icons are described 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 bigger depending on their shape. If a menu icon is square-shaped, its dimensions should be smaller than for icons with different shapes. The reason for specifying two different sizes is to establish a consistent visual weight across the two icon types.
The outer dimensions for ldpi, mdpi and hdpi 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, medium-definition icons should fit 30x30 and 32x32 pixel boxes, while high-definition images should fit into 44x44 and 48x48 pixel rectangles respectively.
Instead of drawing your own icons conforming to these guidelines, Android developers have an option of getting ready-made icons from professional designers. For example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft include 112 unique tab graphics in both states and all three standard sizes. Should additional resolutions be required, developers can render icons at any resolution by opening scalable vector sources. Android Tab Icons can be viewed and downloaded at http://www.aha-soft.com/stock-icons/android-tab-icons.htm.
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