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Making Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android
When developing mobile apps or drawing graphics for Android apps, one must conform to srict guidelines. Re-using images designed for different operating systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign icons will look weird at best, or will render your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst.Designing Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps Description: When developing Android apps or designing graphics for mobile apps, one must follow srict guidelines. Using images designed for different systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign graphics will look out of place at best, or will make your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There exist strict guidelines available for designing standard-compliant 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 supplied in two different states: unselected and selected. It is recommended that tab icons are created as simple, flat shapes as opposed to graphics shown in 3D or isometric projection.
Android OS and Android apps can run on a variety of different platforms using a wide range of hardware. In connection to icon images, those devices can have different display sizes, display resolutions, pixel dimensions and density. To accommodate the variety of screens, Android developers should 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 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 resolutions, designers can ensure that their apps will display properly on a wide range of platforms running the Android OS.
Menu icons are displayed 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 cannot use 3D or isometric projections.
Pixel resolutions for menu icons are described in a slightly more comprehensive way as opposed to to tab icons. Instead of two sizes 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 resolution 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 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, mdpi 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 getting ready-made images from professional designers. For example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft offer 112 unique tab graphics in both states and all three standard sizes. If an additional size is needed, developers can produce images at any size by accessing scalable vector sources. Android Tab Icons can be previewed and downloaded at http://www.aha-soft.com/stock-icons/android-tab-icons.htm.
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