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Designing Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android

When developing mobile apps or drawing graphics for Android apps, one must conform to srict guidelines. Using icons designed for other systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign icons will look out of place at best, or will make your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst.

Designing Tab and Menu Icons for Android Description: When developing mobile apps or designing graphics for mobile apps, one must follow certain guidelines. Using graphics made for other operating systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign icons will look out of place at best, or will make your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There are precise guidelines available for designing standard-compliant Android icons. Different design guidelines are available for tab icons and menu icons.

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Tab icons represent individual tabs in tabbed interface. Tab icons must be provided in two different states: unselected and selected. 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 wide range of hardware platforms using 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 displays, 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. 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 providing 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 used in the "options" menu, and are displayed to the user 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.

Pixel resolutions for menu icons are defined in a slightly more comprehensive way as opposed to to tab icons. Instead of just 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 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 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 dots. 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 designing your own images matching these guidelines, Android developers have an option of getting stock images from professional designers. As an example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft offer 112 unique tab images in both states and all three standard resolutions. If an additional size is needed, developers can produce icons at any size 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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