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Making Tab and Menu Icons for Android
When designing Android apps or drawing graphics for mobile apps, one must follow certain guidelines. Re-using images made for other systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign icons will look weird at best, or will render your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst.Designing Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android Description: When developing Android apps or drawing graphics for Android apps, it is essential to conform to srict guidelines. Using graphics made for different systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign graphics will look weird at best, or will render your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There exist precise guidelines available in reference to Android icons. Different design guidelines are available for tab icons and menu graphics.
Tab icons are drawn in individual tabs in tabbed interface. Tab icons should be provided in two different states: unselected and selected. It is required that tab icons are drawn as simple, flat shapes as opposed to icons drawn 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 connection to icon graphics, those platforms can have different screen sizes, display resolutions, pixel dimensions and density. To accommodate the variety of screens, Android developers should provide all tab icons used in their apps in at least three resolutions to be shown on low, medium, and high density displays. Pixel-wise, the outer boundaries for the three sizes 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 devices running the Android OS.
Menu icons are used in the "options" menu, and are shown to the user when they press the Menu button. Similar to tab icons, menu icons are specified as 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 two resolutions described for tab icons (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 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 pixels. 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 obtaining stock graphics from professional designers. As an example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft offer 112 unique tab icons in selected and unselected states and all standard sizes. If an additional size is needed, developers can render graphics 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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