What sizes should the image be for each phone size (HDPI, MDPI, XHDPI, XXHDPI) in the navigation drawer like this one?
It should be 24dp. Refer image from material design specification for navigation drawer.
For entire specification of navigation drawer check out this link http://www.google.com/design/spec/patterns/navigation-drawer.html
According to the Google I/O 2015 App source code, it should be 40dp
You can check it here:
https://github.com/google/iosched/blob/master/android/src/main/res/layout/navdrawer.xml
Lines 72 and 73. You will see:
android:layout_width="#dimen/navdrawer_profile_image_size"
android:layout_height="#dimen/navdrawer_profile_image_size"
And, in the dimens.xml file (https://github.com/google/iosched/blob/master/android/src/main/res/values/dimens.xml), in line 136, you will be able to check that the dimen value is:
<dimen name="navdrawer_profile_image_size">40dp</dimen>
I personally found it the perfect size. It's the same used in the Gmail App, if I'm not wrong.
Edit:
I've tried and didn't achieved to get the same size than the Google I/O App, even using their exact dimen variables.
So I've created and measured the sizes, following the rules of the Google specs (https://www.google.com/design/spec/patterns/navigation-drawer.html#navigation-drawer-specs) and I achieved this which looks quite similar to Gmail and Google I/O Apps:
Hope this helps,
If you are designing in Photoshop or something similar and you need to work in pixels, the ratio of the navigation drawer image should be 16:9
In xxxhdpi folder it should be 1216 x 688 (pixels)
You might want to have your icons auto-generated (to give you the right sizes).
See Android Asset Studio.
Just select an ICON that you want from their collection (or UPLOAD one of your own), and choose the parameters (colors, etc) to match your project, and download..
You'll probably want this flavor of icons: Action bar and tab icons
The size should be based on device size for that use below icon sizes.
mdpi : 24 x 24 px
hdpi : 36 x 36 px
xhdpi : 48 x 48 px
it will fit based on device size.
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I offer the ability to change the app icon via a setting... I'm thinking about adding app icons in all material colors (500 + 900 values) which results in 34 icons + 2 for black and white.
Now I'm thinking of adding them only in a few resolutions instead of all. Which one can I safely remove?
I would add:
mdpi
hdpi
xhdpi
xxhdpi
xxxhdpi
Would it work if I only add xxxhpi icons? Or xxxhdpi + hdpi? Which sizes are necessary so that it always works?
EDIT
Why do I want to do this? Just to keep my app as small as possible but having nice icons for all devices
its best to have images in all size of same name,it will take the image based on the resolution of the device
I used android asset studio to create Launcher icon:
http://android-ui-utils.googlecode.com/hg/asset-studio/dist/icons-launcher.html#foreground.space.trim=1&foreground.space.pad=0&foreColor=33b5e5%2C0&crop=0&backgroundShape=bevel&backColor=ffffff%2C100
The studio generated images at proper pixel sizes: 48 * 48 (mdpi) 72 *72 (hdpi) and so on..
But on my Samsung galaxy s2 the app icon appear smaller then other apps and not filling its entire space.
Whay is this? how can i stretch it to full extent?
Asset studio adds unnecessary margins to the icon. If someone can come up with a similar tool without adding margins, it would be of great help. The solution to your problem is to use a single 512 by 512 image as icon. Android will scale the rest for you when users install your app.
Instead of importing image through Image Asset in Android Studio, make 5 images with different size:
48 x 48
72 x 72
96 x 96
144 x 144
192 x 192
And then directly copy in respective Drawable folder (mdpi, hdpi, xhdpi, xxhdpi, xxxhdpi) with same name.
I have the same problem with the Asset Studio on Android Studio.
The only work-around was to make the images myself. Most of the time, just providing one image at 192*192 worked for me, instead of creating the whole mipmap.
Check the drawable-hdpi folder, and see if it has the correct one. The SII has a HDPI density, so you might have copied the icon into the wrong folder.
Source: http://blog.blundell-apps.com/list-of-android-devices-with-pixel-density-buckets/
Finding myself in the same situation, I generated the so called web icon, which gave me the rounded corners and shadow and the size big enough to remove padding and produce all the required sizes myself in a graphic editor.
Put a 512 * 512 icon in drawable folder instead of mipmap and then from Android Manifest reference it through android:icon tag
android:icon="#drawable/app_icon"
Worked for me, no margin on corners.
My apk icon goes blurry when creating the apk.
I tried even to download some apk that has a very sharp (android app) icon and placing it
inside of my apk but I get the same result.
how is it possible that my icon goes blurry when I see it very sharp in other app using the same icon?
of course I used multiple icon size:
ldpi (120 dpi) (Low density screen) 36 x 36 px
mdpi (160dpi)(Medium density screen) 48 x 48 px
hdpi (240 dpi)(Highdensity screen) 72 x 72 px
xhdpi (320 dpi) (Extra-high density screen) 96 x 96 px
but it didn't help. how can I fix it?
Thank you
A little late to the party, but if someone searches for this issue, you might want to check if your icons are in /drawable or /mipmap. Latter really bumps the quality up, if you haven't had your launcher icons in there before.
See also:
mipmap drawables for icons
http://android-developers.blogspot.de/2014/10/getting-your-apps-ready-for-nexus-6-and.html
As all answers suggesting that please check all drawable and mipmap folders but there is something else in my case that I had an extra folder mipmap-anydpi-v26 in which I also have the app icon that icon was creating the problem. So I just simply remove the mipmap-anydpi-v26 folder and after that everything is working fine.
I found my mistake. I should have known that android:thumbnail is not android:icon, and the thumbnail resolution should be higher (I couldn't find documentation),
Another reason it may be blurry:
If you are using an xml icon inside drawable, check for the values android:width and android:height, be sure they are large enough (for example: '128dp').
What works for me was use "density" instead "qualifier" in config.xml icon tag:
<icon density="ldpi" src="www/res/icons/android/drawable-ldpi-icon.png" />
If you are getting blurred image while compiling and running from android studio make sure that if you find mipmap-anydp folder delete that!.
I've created a menu icon and included a 36x36, 48x48 and 72x72 in the ldpi, mdpi and hdpi drawable folders. It looks fine on all devices except honeycomb tablets, where it seems like the padding around the Android icons are bigger than on my custom icon. I've included a screenshot (see how much bigger my 'Resume Reading' icon is than the android 'Back' and 'My Library' icons are). How do I make my icon look like this?
I think I found the problem. When using the Android resource icon's on a tablet, I think it changes the padding in order for the icon to be used in the action bar. So when displaying them in a pop up menu at the bottom they are appearing much smaller than they should be. The solution is to copy the android resources into our own resource folder as it says to do here http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_menu.html
Most of your Tablets are not hdpi, they are xhdpi. While the Icon Design Guidelines are useful, they don't give the whole story. Consider reading Supporting Multiple Screens. Here, they tell you further ratios and dimensions. To save you some time, resources should be 3ldpi:4mdpi:6hdpi:8xhdpi meaning that your xhdpi icon should be 96 x 96. Please, read the whole document, though. It is insanely useful.
Android icon guidelines says to use icon of size 36*36pixels for ldpi and 48*48 for mdpi 72*72pixels for hdpi (http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design.html). What is value that i should give as pixels per inch while creating the icon?(Photoshop shows 72 pixels/inch as default value while creating a new icon)
I am quite sure that it does not matter at all. As far as I reckon, the dpi in Photoshop and other (non vectorial) image editing software is used only when you want to print the image.
If you are not convinced, try different settings for your image's dpi and check whether that changes anything.