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Making Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps
When designing Android apps or designing graphics for Android apps, one must follow srict guidelines. Using images designed for different 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.Designing Tab and Menu Icons for Android Description: When designing Android apps or designing graphics for Android apps, it is essential to follow srict guidelines. Using images designed for different operating systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign images will look out of place at best, or will render your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There exist precise guidelines available for designing standard-compliant 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 must be supplied in two different states: unselected and selected. It is required that tab icons are created as simple, flat shapes as opposed to icons drawn in 3D or isometric projection.
Android OS and Android apps are used on a variety of different platforms employing a wide range of hardware. In connection to icon graphics, those devices can have different display sizes, screen resolutions, pixel density and dimensions. To accommodate the variety of displays, 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 screens. Pixel-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 are specified as flat, grayscale images. Just as tab icons, developers cannot use 3D or isometric projections.
Pixel resolutions for menu icons are defined in a slightly more comprehensive way compared to tab icons. Instead of two resolutions 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 size should be smaller than for icons with different shapes. 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 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 boundaries, while high-definition images should fit into 44x44 and 48x48 pixel rectangles respectively.
Instead of designing your own graphics matching these guidelines, Android developers have an option of getting ready-made icons from professional designers. For example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft include 112 unique tab icons in selected and unselected states and all three standard resolutions. Should additional resolutions be required, developers can render 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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