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Designing Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps
When developing mobile apps or designing graphics for mobile apps, it is essential to follow certain guidelines. Re-using icons made for other 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.Making Tab and Menu Icons for Android Description: When developing Android apps or designing graphics for mobile apps, it is essential to conform to certain guidelines. Using images made for different 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 hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There exist precise guidelines published in reference to Android icons. Different design guidelines are available for tab icons and menu graphics.
Tab icons represent individual tabs in tabbed UI. Tab icons must be supplied in two different states: unselected and selected. It is recommended that tab icons are designed as simple, flat shapes as opposed to icons drawn in 3D or isometric projection.
Android OS and Android apps can run on a multitude of different platforms employing a wide range of hardware. In connection to icon images, those devices can have different display sizes, screen resolutions, pixel density and dimensions. To accommodate the variety of screens, Android developers should 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. Inner dimensions should not exceed 22x22, 28x28, and 42x42 pixels respectively. By including all three standard resolutions, designers can ensure that their apps will be shown 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 are specified as flat, grayscale images. Just as tab icons, developers should not use 3D or isometric projections.
Screen sizes for menu icons are defined in a slightly more complex way compared to tab icons. Instead of two resolutions 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 dimensions should be smaller than for icons shaped otherwise. The reason for having two different size limits is to establish a consistent visual size 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 is 22x22 pixels, while non-square icons should fit into a boundary box sized 24x24 pixels. Similarly, mdpi 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 stock icons from professional designers. For example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft offer 112 unique tab graphics in selected and unselected states and all standard resolutions. If an additional size is needed, developers can produce images at any resolution by accessing 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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