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Designing Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android
When designing Android apps or drawing graphics for mobile apps, one must follow srict guidelines. Re-using icons made for other operating systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign icons will look weird at best, or will render your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst.Designing Tab and Menu Icons for Android Description: When designing mobile apps or designing graphics for mobile apps, it is essential to conform to srict guidelines. Using graphics designed for different systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign images will look weird at best, or will make your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There exist precise guidelines available for designing standard-compliant Android icons. Different design guidelines are published for tab icons and menu images.
Tab icons are drawn in individual tabs in tabbed interface. Tab icons should be provided in two distinct states: unselected and selected. It is required that tab icons are created as simple, flat shapes as opposed to images shown in 3D or isometric projection.
Android OS and Android apps are used on a multitude of hardware platforms employing a wide range of hardware. In reference to icon images, those devices can have different display sizes, screen resolutions, pixel density and dimensions. 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 displayed on low, medium, and high density displays. Pixel-wise, the outer boundaries for the three resolutions are defined as 24x24, 32x32, and 48x48 pixels. Inner dimensions should not exceed 22x22, 28x28, and 42x42 pixels respectively. By providing all three standard sizes, designers can ensure that their apps will be shown properly on a variety of platforms running the Android OS.
Menu icons are drawn 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, greyscale images. Like tab icons, developers should not use 3D or isometric projections.
Pixel resolutions for menu icons are described 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 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 specifying 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 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 dots. Similarly, medium-definition icons should fit 30x30 and 32x32 pixel boundaries, while high-definition images should fit into 44x44 and 48x48 pixel boundaries respectively.
Instead of drawing your own icons matching these guidelines, Android developers have an option of ordering stock graphics from professional designers. For example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft offer 112 unique tab icons in selected and unselected states and all three standard sizes. If an additional size is needed, developers can produce icons 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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