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Producing Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps
When designing Android apps or designing graphics for Android apps, it is essential to follow srict guidelines. Using images designed for other systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign images will look out of place at best, or will make your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst.Making Tab and Menu Icons for Android Description: When designing Android apps or designing graphics for Android apps, one must conform to srict guidelines. Re-using icons designed 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 appear hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There exist strict guidelines available in reference to Android icons. Different design guidelines are available for tab icons and menu icons.
Tab icons represent individual tabs in tabbed UI. Tab icons should be provided in two different states: unselected and selected. It is required that tab icons are created as simple, flat shapes as opposed to images shown in 3D or isometric projection.
Android OS and Android apps can run on a wide range of hardware platforms employing a wide range of hardware. In reference to icon images, those platforms can have different display sizes, display resolutions, pixel dimensions and density. To accommodate the wide range of displays, Android developers must provide 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. The size of the shape itself should not exceed 22x22, 28x28, and 42x42 pixels respectively. By supplying all three standard sizes, developers can ensure that their apps will be shown properly on a wide range of platforms running the Android OS.
Menu icons are used 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, greyscale images. Just as tab icons, developers should not use 3D or isometric projections.
Screen resolutions for menu icons are defined in a slightly more complex way as opposed to to tab icons. Instead of two resolutions defined for tab icons (inner shape and boundary box), the inner shape of menu icons can be smaller or larger depending on their shape. If a menu icon is square-shaped, its size should be smaller than for icons with different shapes. The reason for having two different size limits 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 should be 22x22 pixels, while non-square icons should fit into a boundary box sized 24x24 dots. Similarly, mdpi icons should fit 30x30 and 32x32 pixel boxes, while high-definition images should fit into 44x44 and 48x48 pixel boundaries respectively.
Instead of drawing your own images conforming to these guidelines, Android developers have an option of getting stock images from professional designers. For example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft include 112 unique tab graphics in both states and all standard resolutions. Should additional resolutions be required, developers can render graphics at any resolution 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.
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