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Producing 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 icons designed for other systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign icons will look weird at best, or will render your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst.Producing Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android Description: When developing mobile apps or designing graphics for mobile apps, one must conform to srict guidelines. Re-using icons designed for other operating systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign images will look weird at best, or will make your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst. Body: There are strict guidelines published in reference to Android icons. Different design guidelines are available for tab icons and menu images.
Tab icons represent individual tabs in tabbed interface. Tab icons should be supplied in two distinct states: unselected and selected. It is required that tab icons are drawn as simple, flat shapes as opposed to icons shown in 3D or isometric projection.
Android OS and Android apps are used on a wide range of hardware platforms using a wide range of hardware. In reference to icon images, those platforms can have different screen sizes, display resolutions, pixel density and dimensions. To accommodate the variety of displays, Android developers should provide all tab icons used in their apps in at least three resolutions to be drawn on low, medium, and high density screens. Pixel-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 providing all three standard sizes, designers can ensure that their apps will display properly on a variety 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 should be flat, greyscale images. Just as tab icons, developers cannot use 3D or isometric projections.
Screen resolutions for menu icons are defined in a slightly more comprehensive 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 sizes is to establish a consistent visual size across the two icon types.
The outer dimensions for ldpi, mdpi and hdpi 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 dots. Similarly, medium-definition 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 icons from professional designers. As an example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft include 112 unique tab graphics in both states and all standard sizes. If an additional size is needed, developers can render graphics at any resolution by opening 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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