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Designing Tab and Menu Icons for Android
When developing mobile apps or designing graphics for mobile apps, one must follow certain guidelines. Re-using icons designed for other systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign images will look weird at best, or will render your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst.Producing Tab and Menu Icons for Android Description: When developing mobile apps or designing graphics for mobile apps, it is essential to follow certain guidelines. Using icons made for other systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign icons will look out of place at best, or will render your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There exist strict guidelines available 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 must be provided in two different states: unselected and selected. It is recommended that tab icons are designed as simple, flat shapes as opposed to images drawn in 3D or isometric projection.
Android OS and Android apps can run on a wide range of different platforms using a wide range of hardware. In connection to icon graphics, those platforms can have different display sizes, screen resolutions, pixel density and dimensions. 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 screens. Resolution-wise, the outer boundaries for the three sizes 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 display properly on a wide range of devices running the Android OS.
Menu icons are drawn in the "options" menu, and are shown to users when they press the Menu button. Similar to tab icons, menu icons should be flat, grayscale images. Just as tab icons, developers should not use 3D or isometric projections.
Pixel sizes for menu icons are described in a slightly more comprehensive way as opposed to to tab icons. Instead of just two sizes 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 with different shapes. The reason for specifying two different sizes 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 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 icons matching these guidelines, Android developers have an option of obtaining stock icons from professional designers. As an example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft include 112 unique tab images in both states and all three standard resolutions. Should additional resolutions be required, developers can produce 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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