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Making Tab and Menu Icons for Android
When designing mobile apps or designing graphics for Android apps, one must conform to srict guidelines. Re-using icons designed for other systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign icons will look weird at best, or will render your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst.Designing Tab and Menu Icons for Android Description: When developing Android apps or designing graphics for mobile apps, one must conform to srict guidelines. Re-using images made for other systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign graphics will look weird at best, or will make your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There exist precise guidelines published for designing standard-compliant Android icons. Different design guidelines are published for tab icons and menu images.
Tab icons represent individual tabs in tabbed interface. Tab icons must be supplied in two different states: unselected and selected. It is required 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 wide range of different platforms using a wide range of hardware. In reference to icon graphics, those platforms can have different screen sizes, screen resolutions, pixel dimensions and density. 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 displayed on low, medium, and high density displays. Resolution-wise, the outer boundaries for the three sizes 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 display properly on a variety of devices 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 should be flat, grayscale images. Just as tab icons, developers should not 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 sizes defined 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 having two different sizes is to establish a consistent visual weight across the two icon types.
The outer dimensions for low, medium, and high resolution 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 pixels. 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 icons matching these guidelines, Android developers have an option of ordering ready-made icons from professional designers. For example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft offer 112 unique tab images in both states and all standard resolutions. Should additional resolutions be required, developers can produce graphics 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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