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Designing Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps

When designing Android apps or designing graphics for Android apps, one must follow srict guidelines. 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 appear hardly recognizable at worst.

Designing Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android Description: When designing mobile apps or drawing graphics for Android apps, one must follow srict guidelines. Re-using images designed for other operating systems, especially desktop-based, is 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 strict guidelines published in reference to Android icons. Different design guidelines are available for tab icons and menu icons.

Android Icons for Navigation Tab Bars

Tab icons are drawn in individual tabs in tabbed UI. Tab icons must be provided in two different states: selected and unselected. It is required that tab icons are created as simple, flat shapes as opposed to images drawn in 3D or isometric projection.

Android OS and Android apps are used on a multitude of different platforms employing 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 screens, Android developers should supply all tab icons used in their apps in at least three resolutions to be shown on low, medium, and high density screens. Pixel-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 supplying all three standard resolutions, developers can ensure that their apps will display properly on a variety of platforms running the Android OS.

Menu icons are displayed 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. Just as tab icons, developers should not use 3D or isometric projections.

Screen sizes for menu icons are described in a slightly more complex way as opposed to to tab icons. Instead of just two resolutions defined 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 resolution should be smaller than for icons shaped otherwise. The reason for having two different size limits 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 dots. 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 graphics matching these guidelines, Android developers have an option of obtaining stock images from professional designers. For example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft include 112 unique tab icons in selected and unselected states and all standard sizes. If an additional size is needed, developers can render 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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