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Designing Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps

When designing Android apps or drawing graphics for mobile apps, it is essential to conform to srict guidelines. Re-using graphics designed for different systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign images will look out of place at best, or will render your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst.

Designing Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps Description: When designing Android apps or designing graphics for mobile apps, it is essential to follow srict guidelines. Using images made for different operating systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign icons will look weird at best, or will render your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There exist precise guidelines published in reference to Android icons. Different design guidelines are published for tab icons and menu graphics.

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Tab icons are drawn in individual tabs in tabbed interface. Tab icons should be supplied in two different states: unselected and selected. It is required that tab icons are designed as simple, flat shapes as opposed to graphics shown in 3D or isometric projection.

Android OS and Android apps can run on a multitude of hardware platforms employing a wide range of hardware. In reference to icon images, those platforms can have different screen sizes, screen resolutions, pixel dimensions and density. To accommodate the variety of screens, Android developers must provide all tab icons used in their apps in at least three resolutions to be displayed on low, medium, and high density displays. 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 sizes, developers can ensure that their apps will display properly on a variety of devices running the Android OS.

Menu icons are displayed in the "options" menu, and are displayed 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 sizes for menu icons are described in a slightly more comprehensive way compared to tab icons. Instead of just two resolutions described for tab icons (inner shape and boundary box), the inner shape of menu icons can be smaller or larger depending on their shape. If a menu icon is square-shaped, its dimensions 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 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 designing your own graphics matching these guidelines, Android developers have an option of obtaining stock images from professional designers. For example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft offer 112 unique tab graphics in both states and all three standard sizes. If an additional size is needed, developers can render graphics at any size 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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