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Designing Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps
When developing Android apps or designing graphics for mobile apps, one must conform to certain guidelines. Using graphics made for different 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 Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps Description: When developing Android apps or drawing graphics for Android apps, one must follow srict guidelines. Using icons made for other systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign graphics will look weird at best, or will make your Android apps 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 represent individual tabs in tabbed interface. Tab icons should be provided in two distinct 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 employing a wide range of hardware. In reference to icon graphics, those platforms can have different screen sizes, screen resolutions, pixel dimensions and density. To accommodate the wide range 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 screens. Resolution-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, developers can ensure that their apps will display properly on a wide range of devices running the Android OS.
Menu icons are used in the "options" menu, and are displayed to users when they press the Menu button. Similar to tab icons, menu icons are specified as flat, greyscale images. Like tab icons, developers cannot use 3D or isometric projections.
Screen sizes for menu icons are described in a slightly more complex way as opposed to to tab icons. Instead of two sizes defined for tab graphics (inner shape and boundary box), the inner shape of menu icons can be smaller or bigger depending on their shape. If a menu icon is square-shaped, its size should be smaller than for icons with different shapes. 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 described 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, medium-definition icons should fit 30x30 and 32x32 pixel boundaries, while high-definition images should fit into 44x44 and 48x48 pixel rectangles respectively.
Instead of drawing your own icons conforming to these guidelines, Android developers have an option of obtaining ready-made icons from professional designers. As an example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft include 112 unique tab images in selected and unselected states and all standard resolutions. Should additional resolutions be required, developers can render graphics at any resolution 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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