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Making Tab and Menu Icons for Android
When developing Android apps or drawing graphics for mobile apps, one must follow certain guidelines. Using graphics made 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 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 images designed for other systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign graphics will look weird at best, or will render your Android apps 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 are drawn in individual tabs in tabbed UI. Tab icons must be provided in two distinct states: selected and unselected. It is required that tab icons are designed 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 connection to icon images, those platforms can have different display sizes, screen 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 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 including all three standard resolutions, developers can ensure that their apps will display properly on a variety of devices running the Android OS.
Menu icons are drawn 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.
Pixel 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 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 resolution should be smaller than for icons shaped otherwise. The reason for specifying two different sizes is to establish a consistent visual size 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 pixels. 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 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 icons in selected and unselected states and all standard resolutions. Should additional resolutions be required, developers can render icons 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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