How to export menu icons in high quality using Illustrator - android

I made simple menu icons which look the way I want them to look when in Illustrator, but when I place them in my app they look pixelated and bad.
Here is it in my app (as you can see, the text is not pixelated):
This is how it looks in Illustrator (I cut the icons and pasted them next to the other two, that's why the background is in different color):
I made the icons on 72x72 px canvas and exported them as .png file.
I am using Android Studio to make my app, and use simple
android:background="#drawable/back_button" to set the image/icon for the ImageButton.


I never try Illustrator to put icons, but I am directly download icons from flaticon that provides any type of file and size too
Two way to get different canvas file in android studio.
Android Studio-> File-> Image Asset or Vector Asset
upload your file and set as you need
Icon Generator
From this you can get directly res folder with different canvas image.
Mostly I prefere first.
Thanks


these icons as shown in fig. have a background color assigned by you in illustrator, no matter these are exported as png format or jpg!
First go back to illustrator and try to make background of images transparent as you assigned greyish color, tell me if it works. That's great you are making icons for yourself. Good work.


I think when you save the file please try to save it (SVG) format & then place it.

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I have button design which created using Adobe XD. I want to use this design in my android button. How can do this. I can get this design as an .png or .svg. I don't want the background to deteriorate.

It depend how the design looks like in Adobe XD.
If your problem is decision how to use resource from XD as background so it will not "deteriorate", you have two options:
PNG: Download resource as .png and add in different sizes to adequate res folders. Documentation about resources on Android. Check part about resouces depending on Screen pixel density
SVG: Download resource as .svg and convert it to .xml in Android Studio to use as Vector Drawable. Then use it as a background of button. Vector Drawable will scale to the different resolutions without quality decrease.

Android Studio 3.2 Add Image Of Custom Size (not icon)

When I right-click the Drawable folder and click New -> Image Asset, I'm presented with only four options: action and tab bar icons, launcher icons, launcher icons (legacy), and notification icons.
What if I want to add an image to just use in my app (not as a tiny icon)? Selecting any of the options above causes Android Studio to scale the image down to like 24x24dp when I want to display it at 100x100dp. So, when I display it, it looks really blurry. Why isn't there an option to add an image asset that's not tiny?

Limited modification is to comply with the material design specification. you could use vector asset if you want to get different size image.
and notice you should down image with SVG format, read the ref in here
another way is using thrid party plugins like Android Drawable Importer, which is flexiable and simpler.

Just copy the image to your drawable folder in the Android sidebar view. Make sure it goes into drawable and not one of the density-dependent folders, and you'll have an image with a custom size.
Be aware that images can't be too big in Android. It shouldn't be larger than 1600px in either dimension, otherwise you run the risk of a laggy interface or an OutOfMemory error.

Problems while importing an image asset

I'm trying to import a PNG image asset to my project. But the image is losing details. It's just retaining the outer background. The image is transformed to a solid asset:
As you can see, the source asset has a white-tick in the center. But, after importing, it just remains as a solid circle with no ticks. Any solutions?
UPDATE: Tried Android asset studio, but with the same result. What am I missing?:

Thanks to Shafayat Mamun, a workaround is figured out. Here's what I did:
Go to Android Asset Studio
Select Generic Icons (it didn't work for any other option)
Upload the image, pick your color and drag down the color scale to 0% using the scale.
Download the zip and extract to the main folder of the project.
PS: This, though helped me solve my query, but the question remains intact. Why is android studio not capturing the image details while importing? Same is the case while I select Action bar and tab icons in the Android Asset Studio.

do you really need to convert it in the action bar and tab icon generator? i recommend using the simple nine-patch generator here if you want a 9patch image. or the launcher icon generator and set the shape to none and change the image's name after downloading. if you use the launcher icon generator, just modify the shape. if you use the nine-patch generator, you can click trim and click edge transparency if you want to remove the spaces beside the image.

I had the same problem and the Android Asset Studio workaround was a great help. However I discovered another work around. In Android Studio when you create an image asset, instead of selecting Action Bar and Tab icons, I chose Launcher Icons from the drop down. Then the images displayed for me. I had to search for their name and they do not get stored in the drawable folder they end up in the mipmap folder.
So the steps are:
For Android Studio:
Right click on res, new Image Asset
On Asset type choose Launcher Icons
Choose the image path
Give your image a name in Resource name
Next->Finish
The image will be saved in the /res/mipmap folder

Android Studio Image Asset Launcher Icon Background Color

I have a .png logo for my app which doesn't have a background, when I add it to android studio as an Image Asset I am forced to have a background. The hex field doesn't accept 8 digit color codes, 6 digits only. Is there anyway to keep the background invisible?

To make background transparent, set shape as None.
See the image below:
EDIT:
For Android Studio 3.0,
you can set it from Legacy Tab

I'm using Android Studio 3.0.1 and if the above answer doesn't work for you, try to change the icon type into Legacy and select Shape to None, the default one is Adaptive and Legacy.
Note: Some device has installed a launcher with automatically adding white background in icon, that's normal.

You have two ways:
1) In Background Layer > Scaling, reduce the Resize to 1
and then in Legacy > Legacy Icon set Shape as None
2) in Background Layer > Scaling > Source Asset, you can set an image as a 1x1 pixel (or any size) transparent.png image (you've already created).
and then in Legacy > Legacy Icon set Shape as None

the above approach didn't work for me on Android Studio 3.0. It still shows the background. I just made an empty background file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<vector
android:height="108dp"
android:width="108dp"
android:viewportHeight="108"
android:viewportWidth="108"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
</vector>
This worked except the full bleed layers

This is just another workaround.
For the 'Foreground Layer', select 'Asset type' as text and delete the default text in the text field.
For the 'Background Layer', select 'Asset type' as image and now choose the path of the image you want as an icon.
And you are good to go.

Android Studio 3.5.3
It works with this configuration.

I Just put my view background (color code) as ClipArt or Image background, and it looks like transparent or no background where both have the same color as background.

These are the steps I took to make an image transparent:
1- I used an online website which makes the image transparent, there are a lot of them. For me, I use this https://www241.lunapic.com/editor/?action=transparent and sometimes this http://www.online-image-editor.com/help/transparency
2- In Android Studio (I'm using version 3.1.3), open Image Asset from app > res (right click) > New > Image Asset
3- In the Path, choose the location of the transparent image which you downloaded from the online website, and make the other options as shown, then Next, then Finish. The five different sizes of image mdpi(48×48), hdpi(72×72), xhdpi(96×96), xxhdpi(144×144), and xxxhdpi(192×192) will be created in the res/mipmap-density folders.
4- If you need sizes (dimensions) different from above, you can use this website http://nsimage.brosteins.com/ to upload your PNG image of biggest size that will be used in xxxhdpi. After uploading, you can download a zip file containing the five different sizes of image in the res/drawable-density folders.

First, create a launcher icon (Adaptive and Legacy) from Image Asset:
Select an image for background layer and resize it to 0% or 1% and
In legacy tab set shape to none.
Then, delete folder res/mipmap/ic_laucher_round in the project window and Open AndroidManifest.xml and remove attribute android:roundIcon="#mipmap/ic_launcher_round" from the application element.
In the end, delete ic_launcher.xml from mipmap-anydpi-v26.
Notice that: Some devices like Nexus 5X (Android 8.1) adding a white background automatically and can't do anything.

With "Asset Type" set to "Image", try setting the same image for the foreground and background layers, keeping the same "Resize" percentage.

I just added the icon as a normal icon: New -> Vector Asset
and then change the app icon in the Manifest file.

For Foreground Layer choose "Text" and then delete the content text
Finaly choose the path of the image you want as an icon.
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Using android 3.0.1
I noticed this weird behavior(solution),
First: in background layer in the source_asset change the asset_type from image to color and than change it back to image.
second: enable trim in scaling and then resize it to a small percentage and it will work perfectly.
PS: If u didn't do the first step the scaling wont take affect.
and if anyone have an explanation for this please provide.
steps

Android / Eclipse: How to trim the surround at a non-square png file?

I'd like to use a png icon in my app without surround (it's not a square). I made the file with transparent background with an image editor, after that I used "New -> Other -> Android Icon Set -> Launcher Icons" wizard in Eclipse. There is in "Configure Icon Set" panel an option, called "Trim Surrounding Blank Space", but it isn't useable (gray). How can i switch on this option? How can I switch off the background color in this wizard?

I also tried this but I couldn't do it. Looking for it in google is a waste of time because there's nothing. My final solution was to use GIMP and then create 4 images, each one with my original image resized to fill the new image with the same proportions. After it I saved the images in their respective folders(inside res/drawable-). The size of them were:
96x96 (xdpi)
72x72(hdpi)
48x48(mdpi)
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