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Producing Tab and Menu Icons for Android
When designing Android apps or designing graphics for mobile apps, one must conform to srict guidelines. Using graphics made for other operating systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign icons will look weird at best, or will make your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst.Making Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android Description: When developing Android apps or drawing graphics for Android apps, it is essential to conform to certain guidelines. Using graphics made for different operating systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign images will look weird at best, or will make your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There exist precise guidelines available in reference to Android icons. Different design guidelines are published for tab icons and menu images.
Tab icons represent individual tabs in tabbed interface. Tab icons should be provided in two different states: selected and unselected. It is required that tab icons are drawn as simple, flat shapes as opposed to images drawn in 3D or isometric projection.
Android OS and Android apps can run on a wide range of different platforms employing a wide range of hardware. In reference to icon graphics, those devices can have different display sizes, display 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. Resolution-wise, the outer boundaries for the three resolutions 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 sizes, developers can ensure that their apps will display properly on a wide range of platforms running the Android OS.
Menu icons are used 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 cannot use 3D or isometric projections.
Screen resolutions for menu icons are defined in a slightly more complex way as opposed to 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 bigger depending on their shape. If a menu icon is square-shaped, its dimensions should be smaller than for icons shaped otherwise. The reason for specifying two different size limits is to establish a consistent visual size across the two icon types.
The outer dimensions for low, medium, and high resolution 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 boundaries, while high-definition images should fit into 44x44 and 48x48 pixel boundaries respectively.
Instead of designing your own icons conforming to these guidelines, Android developers have an option of getting stock images from professional designers. As an example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft include 112 unique tab images in selected and unselected states and all three standard resolutions. If an additional size is needed, developers can produce images 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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