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Making Tab and Menu Icons for Android

When developing Android apps or designing graphics for Android apps, it is essential to conform to certain guidelines. Re-using graphics designed for different 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.

Producing Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps Description: When designing mobile apps or drawing graphics for Android apps, one must conform to certain guidelines. Using icons designed for different systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign graphics will look weird at best, or will render your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There exist strict guidelines available for designing standard-compliant Android icons. Different design guidelines are published for tab icons and menu graphics.

Android Icons for Navigation Tab Bars

Tab icons represent individual tabs in tabbed UI. Tab icons must be provided in two different states: unselected and selected. It is required 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 multitude of hardware platforms using a wide range of hardware. In connection to icon graphics, those platforms can have different display sizes, display resolutions, pixel density and dimensions. To accommodate the wide range of displays, Android developers must provide all tab icons used in their apps in at least three resolutions to be drawn on low, medium, and high density screens. Pixel-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 supplying all three standard resolutions, developers can ensure that their apps will display properly on a wide range of devices running the Android OS.

Menu icons are used in the "options" menu, and are shown to the user 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.

Screen sizes for menu icons are described in a slightly more comprehensive way compared to tab icons. Instead of two resolutions defined for tab icons (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 size should be smaller than for icons with different shapes. The reason for having two different sizes is to establish a consistent visual weight across the two icon types.

The outer dimensions for low, medium, and high resolution icons are defined as 36x36, 48x48, and 72x72 pixels respectively. Inner shapes for square, low-definition icons should be 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 rectangles respectively.

Instead of drawing your own images matching these guidelines, Android developers have an option of ordering ready-made images from professional designers. As an example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft offer 112 unique tab icons in both states and all standard sizes. If an additional size is needed, developers can produce icons at any resolution by opening 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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