Anyone have a handy link where I can download the full Android vector-based icon set?
They're not super well organized, but you may already have them in your android-sdk/ directory (assuming you've downloaded your Android docs locally through your AVD Mannager).
Either in your:
docs/shareables/
icon_templates-v1.0/
icon_templates-v2.0/
sample_images/
search_icons/
(they all seem to be in Adobe Photoshop .psd format
stored in different layers)
or in your
docs/assets/images/
For their appendix, take a look at the local copy of your docs (here is the online copy)
docs/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design.html
would this be what you are looking for
http://www.matcheck.cz/androidguipsd/
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With older versions of Android Studio, all of the drawable bucket folders were created by default (i.e. drawable-mdpi, drawable-hdpi, etc.). In newer versions of Android Studio, it only provides drawable and drawable-v21. Why is that?
Is there a reason that Android (in its infinite wisdom) no longer gives you the separate bucket folders?
Just to note, I know you can just add them manually, but I want to make sure there isn't some new best practice reason to not use those folders anymore.
Thank you to everyone who tried to help. You helped me reach the final answer, but no one solution was quite right. #user3137702 was probably the closest, as it IS related to the whole move to vectors/SVGs. I couldn't find a definitive answer, like something directly from Google (although I imagine it is out there), but from what I've gathered from a bunch of articles, there is probably a reason they are doing this.
For starters, it looks like this started in Android Studio 1.4. I am in 1.5 right now. It seems that Android is moving in the direction of no longer needing you to create your own density folders (i.e. mdpi, hdpi, etc.) for drawables (mipmaps is different, so please don't confuse that with what I am talking about). As of Android Studio 1.4, it will take the SVGs you put in the regular drawable folder (as in not the v21 folder), convert them to PNGs, and place them in auto-generated density folders for you during the build sequence (so Gradle does this for you, essentially) for all versions older than API 21. For 21 and up, SVG is supported different, which is a whole other topic. But this essentially makes SVG support backwards compatible all the way to API 1!!!
HOWEVER, there is a BIG catch. This SVG conversion is not always as successful as you might hope. It only supports a subset of SVG files, so depending on how you save it (i.e. what settings are applied when saving), it may not render properly. Even commonly used settings, such as gradient and pattern fills, local IRI references, and transformations are NOT supported (yet). If you are working with SVG files that you didn't generate, you will likely have problems importing them. If you or someone you work with directly generates them, you may have to experiment with how you save the files, and you should test builds often on older versions of Android to make sure it turned out as expected.
To import SVGs into Android Studio 1.4+, follow these simple steps:
Right-click on the res/drawable folder
Select "New"
Select "Vector Asset"
At this point, you can select a "Material Icon", which works
really well, and there are a bunch of beautiful "free" icons you can
select from. For indie developers, without icon design support,
this is nice!
OR - you can select "Local SVG File"
Then choose an SVG from either option with the "choose" option. WARNING: This is where it could possibly go wrong, if the SVG you import isn't saved properly.
Hit "Next"
Verify it is saving in the right place, and then Click "Finish"
At this point, it is reference-able with: android:icon="#drawable/ic_imagename" (using your image name instead of ic_imagename, of course)
#CommonsWare's response was very helpful in leading to the right solution, but from what I saw, generating several variations of new projects from different template and version support settings, there wasn't any way to actually have the old density folders get auto-generated. There is definitely more going on here than just a different template-version selection. But as he said, depending on what template/version you select, you may end up with a different set of those two drawable folder types. But specific to my question, Android Studio does seem to be putting an emphasis on this new approach of not creating your own individual drawable density folders at all.
It's pretty cool, imo, but it still needs some work. In practical terms, I will likely still need to add the drawable density folders to support all the images I work with, until this mechanism gets a little more supportive of all types of SVG renderings.
And one more tidbit - Because this is all handled through Gradle (the actual generation of the density folders) you can add build settings through the flavor mechanism to limit which density folders you want to generate. So if, for example, you feel mdpi images have reached the end of their usefulness for your particular user base and would like to leave that size/density out of your app to shave a couple MB off the app size, you can set that in the Gradle build flavor.
before when I was creating a new project I was found this folders drawable-hdpi,drawable-mdpi, drawable-xhdpi, and drawable-xxhdpi. but now they are all gone!
is there any explanation of what happens?
and where we should put our images?
This is perhaps because they will add an Gradle plugin that converts SVGs to PNGs during build (as mentioned in this IO talk). The idea is that you will only need to have a single SVG instead of multiple PNGs for various densities (an thus, only one drawable folder). You can still create the folders and use PNGs.
The Gradle plugins for SVG conversion by Google has not been released yet, but you can use Victor or a similar plugin if you already want to use SVGs for your drawables.
You should read Android Blog
you can just create drawable-xhdpi.
I just give answer here
read and if any problem ask.
I wasn't aware that Android Studio ever provided these dpi dependent drawable folders for the built-in default project scaffolding, and indeed, why should they?
Are they supposed to guess that you're going to support each and every one of these resolutions? Perhaps all your graphics will be vector graphics? Perhaps you only target low or high resolutions?
Also, the DPI modifier is only 1 of the possible modifiers you can attach to a resource folder. You can also add locale, screen width / height, mobile country code and many more. Should Android Studio create a folder with each of these options, along with every possible variation? You'd end up with thousands of folders which you'd likely never use.
In addition, creating a folder with no assets inside it is a big problem when you start synchronising your code using Github or something similar, and creating every possible folder with default assets inside seems like a huge waste.
I think the best approach here is to create any resource folder you need when you need it. Google leaves this decision to you.
Also, important: There is no XDPI or XXDPI folder - it's XHDPI, and XXHDPI
Check in your project section, Not in android section, If they gone just simply create them
I'm making a illustrated instruction for how to use an app that will be needed
for Android/iPhone
I'm not much into coding for Android and I though the client just needed the
illustration but he asks:
"We will need the illustration saved to a file that we can run on mobile devices (iPhone/Android) as well as the source code."
Isn't jpg enough? is there some additional code that you android programmers are
aware of?
No. In Android you can just use a Drawable. This can be a number of different file formats, including your jpeg. It may be good to have a look at Android Asset Studio. With this tool you can get a nice zip file for all your different screen densities. If you keep the file structure that asset studio outputs then Android will do all the heavy lifting for you.
It might also help you to know something about 9-patches. This is how Android knows how to resize and stretch your image. Asset Studio has an option to set this as well.
I'd like to use basic images like the ones in the menu of the alarm application. Are these images integrated in the Android SDK ? I didn't find any way to access them.
If not, do you know a good free library ?
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
C.Hamel
http://www.darshancomputing.com/android/1.5-drawables.html is your answer
and than you access like this android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_menu_delete"
if you want to use image of android system then you can use that all image which are in android's system..
you just need to write android.R.drawable and you will get all image ...
android.R.drawable.btn_dialog
Look in your android-sdk folder, you will find folders for each version of android including all the system images. You can copy the images you need to your own ressource folder and use them from there.
I remember seeing how to do this somewhere, but I'm totally drawing a blank right now. I'd like to use the Android "Refresh" graphic in my application, how do I reference it? Is there a chart somewhere of all graphics which are provided?
Easiest way is to look in your Android SDK location (on my machine, that is *C:\projects\android\android-sdk-windows-1.5_r1*): in the platforms folder is a separate directory for each version of Android. Pick your version of choice and then open the *data\res* folder: there will be a number of drawable folders with the platform graphics.
Go wild copying them into your own app.
I think this might be what you're looking for: http://androiddrawableexplorer.appspot.com/