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Producing Standard 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 operating systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign images will look out of place at best, or will render your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst.Making Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android Description: When developing Android apps or designing graphics for mobile apps, it is essential to follow srict guidelines. Re-using graphics made for different systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign icons will look weird at best, or will render your Android apps hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There are precise 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 images drawn in 3D or isometric projection.
Android OS and Android apps can run on a wide range of hardware platforms employing a wide range of hardware. In connection to icon graphics, those devices can have different display sizes, screen resolutions, pixel dimensions and density. To accommodate the wide range of screens, Android developers must supply all tab icons used in their apps in at least three resolutions to be drawn 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 including all three standard resolutions, developers can ensure that their apps will be shown properly on a variety of platforms running the Android OS.
Menu icons are used 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. Like tab icons, developers cannot use 3D or isometric projections.
Pixel sizes for menu icons are described in a slightly more complex way as opposed to to tab icons. Instead of just two resolutions 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 dimensions should be smaller than for icons shaped otherwise. The reason for having two different size limits is to establish a consistent visual size 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 boxes, while high-definition images should fit into 44x44 and 48x48 pixel rectangles respectively.
Instead of drawing your own icons matching these guidelines, Android developers have an option of ordering stock images from professional designers. As an example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft include 112 unique tab images in both states and all standard resolutions. Should additional resolutions be required, developers can produce 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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