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Making Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps
When designing Android apps or designing graphics for mobile apps, it is essential to conform to srict guidelines. Using images made for other systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign images will look out of place at best, or will make your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst.Producing Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps Description: When developing Android apps or drawing graphics for mobile apps, it is essential to follow srict guidelines. Using icons made for different operating systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign graphics will look weird at best, or will make your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There are precise guidelines published for designing standard-compliant Android icons. Different design guidelines are available for tab icons and menu icons.
Tab icons represent individual tabs in tabbed interface. Tab icons must be provided in two different states: selected and unselected. It is required that tab icons are drawn as simple, flat shapes as opposed to images drawn in 3D or isometric projection.
Android OS and Android apps are used on a variety of different platforms using a wide range of hardware. In connection to icon images, those platforms can have different display sizes, display resolutions, pixel dimensions and density. 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 displays. 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 providing 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 shown to the user when they press the Menu button. Similar to tab icons, menu icons should be flat, greyscale images. Like tab icons, developers cannot 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 two sizes described 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 size should be smaller than for icons with different shapes. The reason for specifying 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 described 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 boxes respectively.
Instead of drawing your own graphics matching these guidelines, Android developers have an option of ordering stock icons from professional designers. As an example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft offer 112 unique tab icons in both states and all three standard sizes. Should additional resolutions be required, developers can render 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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