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Making Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android
When designing mobile apps or drawing graphics for mobile apps, one must follow srict guidelines. Re-using graphics made for other operating systems, especially desktop-based, is 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 Apps Description: When developing Android apps or designing graphics for mobile apps, it is essential to follow certain guidelines. Re-using images designed for different operating systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign graphics will look weird at best, or will make your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There are precise guidelines published for designing standard-compliant 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 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 multitude of hardware platforms employing a wide range of hardware. In reference to icon images, those platforms can have different screen sizes, display resolutions, pixel density and dimensions. To accommodate the wide range of displays, Android developers must supply all tab icons used in their apps in at least three resolutions to be drawn 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 providing all three standard resolutions, designers can ensure that their apps will display properly on a variety of devices running the Android OS.
Menu icons are used in the "options" menu, and are displayed to the user 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 resolutions for menu icons are described in a slightly more complex way as opposed to 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 larger depending on their shape. If a menu icon is square-shaped, its resolution should be smaller than for icons shaped otherwise. The reason for specifying 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 is 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 boxes respectively.
Instead of drawing your own images conforming to these guidelines, Android developers have an option of getting stock icons from professional designers. For example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft include 112 unique tab images in both states and all standard sizes. If an additional size is needed, developers can render images at any resolution by accessing 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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