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Producing Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android
When designing mobile apps or designing graphics for Android apps, it is essential to follow certain guidelines. Re-using graphics designed for different operating systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign icons will look out of place at best, or will make your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst.Making Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps Description: When developing Android apps or drawing graphics for Android apps, one must conform to certain guidelines. Using graphics made for different systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign graphics will look out of place at best, or will make your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There are strict guidelines published in reference to Android icons. Different design guidelines are published for tab icons and menu icons.
Tab icons are drawn in individual tabs in tabbed UI. Tab icons should be provided in two different states: selected and unselected. It is recommended that tab icons are drawn as simple, flat shapes as opposed to images shown in 3D or isometric projection.
Android OS and Android apps can run on a multitude of hardware platforms using a wide range of hardware. In reference to icon images, those platforms can have different screen sizes, screen resolutions, pixel density and dimensions. To accommodate the variety 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. Resolution-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 resolutions, developers can ensure that their apps will be shown properly on a wide range of devices 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 should be flat, greyscale images. Like tab icons, developers cannot use 3D or isometric projections.
Screen sizes for menu icons are described in a slightly more complex way as opposed to to tab icons. Instead of two sizes described 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 size limits 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 should be 22x22 pixels, while non-square icons should fit into a boundary box sized 24x24 pixels. Similarly, medium-definition icons should fit 30x30 and 32x32 pixel boundaries, while high-definition images should fit into 44x44 and 48x48 pixel boundaries respectively.
Instead of drawing your own icons matching these guidelines, Android developers have an option of ordering stock icons from professional designers. For example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft include 112 unique tab graphics in selected and unselected states and all standard resolutions. Should additional resolutions be required, developers can produce images at any resolution 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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