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Making Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android
When designing Android apps or designing graphics for Android apps, one must conform to srict guidelines. Using images 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 hardly recognizable at worst.Designing Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps Description: When developing Android apps or designing graphics for Android apps, it is essential to follow srict guidelines. Re-using graphics designed for other systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign graphics will look out of place at best, or will make your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There are strict guidelines available in reference to Android icons. Different design guidelines are published for tab icons and menu icons.
Tab icons are drawn in individual tabs in tabbed interface. Tab icons must be provided in two different states: unselected and selected. It is recommended that tab icons are created as simple, flat shapes as opposed to images drawn in 3D or isometric projection.
Android OS and Android apps are used on a multitude of different platforms using a wide range of hardware. In reference to icon graphics, those devices can have different display sizes, screen resolutions, pixel dimensions and density. To accommodate the wide range of displays, Android developers must supply all tab icons used in their apps in at least three resolutions to be drawn 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 including all three standard sizes, developers can ensure that their apps will be shown properly on a variety of devices running the Android OS.
Menu icons are displayed in the "options" menu, and are displayed to the user 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.
Pixel resolutions for menu icons are described in a slightly more complex way compared 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 whether they are square-shaped or not. If a menu icon is square-shaped, its dimensions should be smaller than for icons with different shapes. The reason for having two different sizes 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 is 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 boundaries respectively.
Instead of designing your own graphics conforming to these guidelines, Android developers have an option of getting ready-made icons from professional designers. For example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft include 112 unique tab graphics in both states and all standard resolutions. Should additional resolutions be required, developers can produce images 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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