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Making Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps
When developing Android apps or designing graphics for Android apps, one must conform to srict guidelines. Using icons designed for other operating 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 Tab and Menu Icons for Android Description: When developing Android apps or designing graphics for Android apps, it is essential to conform to srict guidelines. Using graphics made for other operating systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign icons will look out of place at best, or will render your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There are strict guidelines available for designing standard-compliant Android icons. Different design guidelines are available for tab icons and menu images.
Tab icons represent individual tabs in tabbed UI. Tab icons should be provided in two different states: selected and unselected. It is required that tab icons are created as simple, flat shapes as opposed to icons shown in 3D or isometric projection.
Android OS and Android apps are used on a multitude of hardware platforms employing a wide range of hardware. In reference to icon graphics, those platforms can have different display sizes, screen resolutions, pixel dimensions and density. To accommodate the variety of screens, Android developers should supply 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 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 platforms 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, 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 comprehensive way compared to tab icons. Instead of two sizes defined for tab graphics (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 resolution 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 ldpi, mdpi and hdpi 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, 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 icons conforming to these guidelines, Android developers have an option of ordering ready-made graphics 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 sizes. Should additional resolutions be required, developers can produce graphics 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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