Business App Tab Bar Icons

Business App Tab Bar Icons offer iPhone, iPad, and iPod developers a quick and easy way to design stunning navigation bars, toolbars, and tab bars in their business and accounting apps. Numerous raster options are available to accommodate the latest super-high resolution Retina displays used in iPhone 5 and similar Apple devices. Thanks to the high-pixel versions, Business App Tab Bar Icons will look edgy and three-dimensional. The Business App Tab Bar Icons package includes images one’s likely to encounter in toolbars and navigation bars used in iPhone, iPad, and iPod apps.

Technically, developers receive 193 unique app icons drawn in matching style, each coming in black and white versions. Resolutions of 20×20, 30×30, 40×40, and 60×60 pixels in PNG and PSD formats are included.

Raster icons in PNG format only: $49.00 / 39.00 EUR
Raster icons in PNG and PSD formats: $99.00 / 89.00 EUR

When designing mobile apps or drawing graphics for Android apps, one must conform to certain guidelines. Using graphics designed for different operating 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.

There are precise guidelines published in reference to Android icons. Different design guidelines are available for tab icons and menu graphics.

Tab icons are drawn in individual tabs in tabbed UI. 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 graphics drawn 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 graphics, those platforms can have different display sizes, display resolutions, pixel density and dimensions. To accommodate the wide range of displays, Android developers should supply all tab icons used in their apps in at least three resolutions to be shown on low, medium, and high density screens. Pixel-wise, the outer boundaries for the three sizes are defined as 24×24, 32×32, and 48×48 pixels. Inner dimensions should not exceed 22×22, 28×28, and 42×42 pixels respectively. By supplying 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 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.

Screen resolutions for menu icons are defined in a slightly more comprehensive way compared 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 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 size across the two icon types.

The outer dimensions for low, medium, and high resolution icons are described as 36×36, 48×48, and 72×72 pixels respectively. Inner shapes for square, low-definition icons is 22×22 pixels, while non-square icons should fit into a boundary box sized 24×24 dots. Similarly, medium-definition icons should fit 30×30 and 32×32 pixel boundaries, while high-definition images should fit into 44×44 and 48×48 pixel boxes respectively.

Instead of designing your own graphics conforming to 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 icons in selected and unselected states and all three standard sizes. Should additional resolutions be required, developers can render images 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.