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Designing Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android
When designing Android apps or drawing graphics for mobile apps, one must conform to srict guidelines. Re-using icons designed for other systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign images will look weird at best, or will make your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst.Designing Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android Description: When designing Android apps or designing graphics for Android apps, it is essential to follow srict guidelines. Using images designed for different systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign graphics will look weird at best, or will render your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There exist strict guidelines published 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 UI. Tab icons must be supplied in two distinct states: unselected and selected. It is required that tab icons are drawn as simple, flat shapes as opposed to graphics drawn in 3D or isometric projection.
Android OS and Android apps can run on a wide range of hardware platforms using a wide range of hardware. In reference to icon images, those platforms can have different display sizes, screen resolutions, pixel density and dimensions. To accommodate the variety 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 screens. Resolution-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 supplying all three standard resolutions, designers can ensure that their apps will be shown properly on a wide range of platforms 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. Like tab icons, developers cannot use 3D or isometric projections.
Pixel sizes for menu icons are described in a slightly more comprehensive way compared to tab icons. Instead of just two resolutions described for tab icons (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 dimensions should be smaller than for icons shaped otherwise. The reason for specifying 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 is 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 rectangles respectively.
Instead of designing your own icons matching these guidelines, Android developers have an option of getting stock icons from professional designers. As an example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft include 112 unique tab icons in both states and all three standard sizes. If an additional size is needed, developers can produce graphics at any resolution 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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