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Making Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps
When designing mobile apps or designing graphics for Android apps, it is essential to follow srict guidelines. Re-using images designed for other systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign images will look out of place at best, or will make your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst.Making Tab and Menu Icons for Android Description: When developing Android apps or designing graphics for Android apps, it is essential to follow certain guidelines. Re-using graphics made 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 exist strict guidelines published in reference to Android icons. Different design guidelines are published for tab icons and menu graphics.
Tab icons are drawn in 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 graphics drawn in 3D or isometric projection.
Android OS and Android apps can run on a variety of different platforms employing a wide range of hardware. In connection to icon graphics, those platforms can have different screen 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 shown 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 sizes, designers can ensure that their apps will be shown properly on a variety of devices running the Android OS.
Menu icons are used in the "options" menu, and are shown to users when they press the Menu button. Similar to tab icons, menu icons are specified as flat, grayscale images. Like tab icons, developers should not use 3D or isometric projections.
Pixel resolutions for menu icons are described in a slightly more complex 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 dimensions 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 low, medium, and high resolution 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 boundaries respectively.
Instead of designing your own images matching these guidelines, Android developers have an option of ordering ready-made images from professional designers. For example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft offer 112 unique tab images in selected and unselected states and all three standard resolutions. Should additional resolutions be required, developers can produce icons 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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