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Designing Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps
When designing Android apps or designing graphics for Android apps, one must conform to srict guidelines. Using images made for other systems, especially desktop-based, is not a good idea. Foreign images will look weird at best, or will make your Android apps appear hardly recognizable at worst.Designing Standard Tab and Menu Icons for Android Apps Description: When designing mobile apps or drawing graphics for mobile apps, one must follow certain guidelines. Re-using images designed for different operating systems, especially desktop-based, is generally not a good idea. Foreign graphics will look weird at best, or will render your Android apps 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 icons.
Tab icons represent individual tabs in tabbed interface. Tab icons must be supplied in two different states: selected and unselected. It is recommended that tab icons are drawn 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 reference to icon graphics, those devices can have different display sizes, screen resolutions, pixel dimensions and density. To accommodate the variety of displays, Android developers must provide all tab icons used in their apps in at least three resolutions to be displayed on low, medium, and high density displays. Resolution-wise, the outer boundaries for the three resolutions 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 resolutions, designers can ensure that their apps will display properly on a wide range of platforms running the Android OS.
Menu icons are drawn 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, grayscale images. Just as tab icons, developers should not use 3D or isometric projections.
Pixel resolutions for menu icons are described in a slightly more complex way compared to tab icons. Instead of just two sizes 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 size should be smaller than for icons with different shapes. The reason for specifying two different size limits 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 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 boundaries respectively.
Instead of designing your own graphics matching these guidelines, Android developers have an option of getting ready-made graphics from professional designers. As an example, Android Tab Icons by Aha-Soft offer 112 unique tab icons in selected and unselected states and all standard sizes. If an additional size is needed, developers can produce icons at any size 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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