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Designing Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps
When designing Android apps or drawing graphics for mobile apps, one must conform to certain guidelines. Using images designed for other 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.Making Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android Description: When developing mobile apps or designing graphics for mobile apps, one must follow srict guidelines. Using graphics designed for other operating systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign graphics will look out of place at best, or will render your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There exist precise 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 interface. Tab icons should be supplied in two different states: selected and unselected. 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 are used on a variety of hardware platforms employing a wide range of hardware. In connection to icon graphics, those devices can have different screen sizes, display resolutions, pixel dimensions and density. To accommodate the variety of displays, Android developers should provide all tab icons used in their apps in at least three resolutions to be drawn on low, medium, and high density displays. 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 supplying 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 should be 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 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 bigger depending on their shape. If a menu icon is square-shaped, its resolution should be smaller than for icons shaped otherwise. 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 pixels. Similarly, medium-definition icons should fit 30x30 and 32x32 pixel boxes, while high-definition images should fit into 44x44 and 48x48 pixel boundaries respectively.
Instead of designing your own icons matching these guidelines, Android developers have an option of ordering stock icons from professional designers. As an example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft include 112 unique tab graphics in both states and all three standard sizes. If an additional size is needed, developers can produce icons 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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