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Producing Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android
When designing Android apps or designing graphics for mobile apps, one must conform to srict guidelines. Re-using images designed for other 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.Producing Tab and Menu Icons for Android Description: When designing mobile apps or drawing graphics for mobile apps, one must conform to srict guidelines. Re-using graphics designed for different systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign icons will look weird at best, or will make your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There exist strict guidelines available for designing standard-compliant Android icons. Different design guidelines are available for tab icons and menu icons.
Tab icons are drawn in individual tabs in tabbed interface. Tab icons must be supplied in two distinct states: unselected and selected. 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 can run on a multitude of different platforms employing a wide range of hardware. In reference to icon graphics, those devices can have different screen sizes, screen resolutions, pixel dimensions and density. To accommodate the variety of displays, Android developers must supply all tab icons used in their apps in at least three resolutions to be shown on low, medium, and high density screens. Resolution-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 supplying all three standard sizes, designers can ensure that their apps will be shown properly on a wide range 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, greyscale images. Just as tab icons, developers cannot use 3D or isometric projections.
Pixel sizes for menu icons are defined in a slightly more comprehensive way as opposed to to tab icons. Instead of just two resolutions described for tab graphics (inner shape and boundary box), the inner shape of menu icons can be smaller or bigger 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 size 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 obtaining stock images from professional designers. As an example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft offer 112 unique tab graphics in selected and unselected states and all standard sizes. If an additional size is needed, developers can produce images 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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