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Producing Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android
When developing Android apps or designing graphics for mobile apps, one must follow certain guidelines. Using icons made for different systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign images will look weird at best, or will render your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst.Designing Tab and Menu Icons for Android Description: When designing Android apps or designing graphics for mobile apps, it is essential to follow certain guidelines. Re-using images made for different systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign icons will look out of place at best, or will render your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There are strict guidelines available in reference to Android icons. Different design guidelines are available for tab icons and menu icons.
Tab icons are drawn in individual tabs in tabbed UI. Tab icons should be supplied in two distinct states: selected and unselected. It is required that tab icons are created as simple, flat shapes as opposed to graphics shown in 3D or isometric projection.
Android OS and Android apps are used on a multitude of different platforms employing a wide range of hardware. In reference to icon graphics, those platforms can have different display sizes, screen resolutions, pixel dimensions and density. To accommodate the variety of screens, Android developers should supply all tab icons used in their apps in at least three resolutions to be displayed on low, medium, and high density displays. Pixel-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 supplying all three standard sizes, developers can ensure that their apps will display properly on a wide range 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 are specified as flat, grayscale images. Just as tab icons, developers cannot use 3D or isometric projections.
Screen sizes for menu icons are described in a slightly more comprehensive way compared to tab icons. Instead of two resolutions described for tab graphics (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 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 described 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, 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 drawing your own images conforming to these guidelines, Android developers have an option of ordering ready-made graphics from professional designers. As an example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft offer 112 unique tab icons in selected and unselected states and all three standard resolutions. If an additional size is needed, developers can produce graphics at any size 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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