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Producing Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps
When developing Android apps or drawing graphics for Android apps, one must conform to srict guidelines. Using images designed for different systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign graphics will look weird at best, or will render your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst.Making Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps Description: When developing Android apps or designing graphics for Android apps, one must follow certain guidelines. Re-using icons made for other systems, especially desktop-based, is generally 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 exist precise 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 interface. Tab icons should be provided in two distinct states: selected and unselected. It is recommended that tab icons are drawn as simple, flat shapes as opposed to images shown in 3D or isometric projection.
Android OS and Android apps can run on a variety of hardware platforms using a wide range of hardware. In connection to icon images, those devices can have different display sizes, display resolutions, pixel dimensions and density. 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 shown 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 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, greyscale images. Like tab icons, developers should not use 3D or isometric projections.
Pixel resolutions for menu icons are defined 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 bigger depending on whether they are square-shaped or not. If a menu icon is square-shaped, its resolution should be smaller than for icons with different shapes. The reason for specifying two different sizes 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 boxes respectively.
Instead of drawing your own images conforming to these guidelines, Android developers have an option of getting stock images from professional designers. For example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft include 112 unique tab images in selected and unselected states and all three standard resolutions. Should additional resolutions be required, developers can render images at any resolution by opening 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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