The Android Icon Design Guidelines seem to address launcer, menu, tab, dialog .., icons. However the guidelines does not mention wallpaper icons. Is it safe to assume the launcher guidelines apply to live wallpaper icons?
Um, no. You need to make a "thumbnail" for your wallpaper. Looky here, fr'instance: How to set the Android Live Wallpaper icon (aka "thumbnail")
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My app UIs are working fine on mobile screen devices. But when running on big screen devices like tablet the UI is not looking good. It is very difficult to read the text in tablet and icon sizes are also small. If I increase the icon size and font size for the tablet, it also affects small screen devices.
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See the above screenshot: On iPhone, it is very easy to read the text and view icons. But on the iPad, the text and icons are not in a good visible format.
My app is mainly for kids and so I need icons and text in a good readable form. So how can I solve this problem in all the devices?
Uploaded my XAML file on here.
It's very complicated to separate UI for iPhone and iPad in Xamarin.Forms . You could use the class Device .
The Device class contains a number of properties and methods to help developers customize layout and functionality on a per-platform basis.
In your case , you can use the Device.Idiom .
For example if you want to set different font size on iPad and iPhone
<Label.FontSize>
<OnIdiom x:TypeArguments="x:Double"
Phone="20"
Tablet="40"/>
</Label.FontSize>
You can set different value of property in xaml or code behind .For more details you can check https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/platform/device#deviceidiom
I am working on Xmarin.forms project. I have many icons in the app. what should be the size of the icons for each platform? I know android supports
Android
72x72 - drawable
72x72 - drawable-hdpi
96x96 - drawable-xhdpi
144x144 - drawable-xxhdpi
iOS
57x57
114x114
120x120
72x72
144x144
76x76
152x152
28x28
58x58
50x50
100x100
40x40
80x80
512x512
1024x1021
This sizes are only for the logo icons? Or all the icons including toolbar icon and burger menu(using master details) has to follow this resolutions? And what size images I can use for splash screen for android,iOs and windows phone?
And what are icon sizes for windows phone?
Please guide me on this.
It depends per platform, per control.
The best would be to refer to the platform specific documentation about user interfaces.
You can find Apple's here.
The one for Android can be found here.
The Windows one can be found here.
Or have a look at this aggregated site with all sizes and flavours in one place.
Also there are some generation tools, at least for the app icons, etc. For example have a look at Make App Icon.
Last but not least; have a good look at how each platform handles icons and sizes. For iOS and Android it has to do with naming conventions or in which folder you put your icons. This is to support all resolutions out there.
What are folks doing for undo/redo buttons in iOS 7? The UIBarButtonSystemItemUndo now displays only text for the buttons. I was an "Apple knows best" person until iOS 7. My app will be iOS 7 only so I don't need to be concerned with backward compatibility.
I'm really fighting the urge to at least put line icons on the toolbar instead of the iOS defaults. What should I do?
Be a good citizen and let the iOS decide
Make my own artistic choice and go with icons. If so:
2a. What style (line, old school icon)?
2b. What shape (part circle, curved arrows, line arrows)?
Do what you think is clearer to the user.
iOS 7 buttons and icons may look poor, but they are great to minimize clogging a view when you need to display many controls that leave little free space to show useful info.
There are lots of iOS 7 icons for free.
Apple's "Bar Button Icons",
Pixeden tab-bar icons,
Icons8, etc.
You may find useful the redo icon displayed at Icons8. By flipping it you may obtain easily the undo icon.
It it possible to make app icons live (such as Clock icon) or be translucent (such as folders icons)?
Can't find any official information about it, only ios7 commercials.
Not that I know of I Believe that there is no translucent or live capability for third party applications when it comes to the home screen unfortunately. But you can make various elements within your application translucent.
I'm talking about the icon set that Github uses for their own site design.
Example Page
On this page, near the top right corner, the "Watch" and "Fork" buttons, as well as the buttons next to them have beautiful icons!
Any idea where the full set can be found?
To clarify, I'm just looking for minimalist grey icons of that size and style to be used in web apps.
I am unsure if the icons Github utilizes are under creative commons. However, the icon packages below are used in other popular software packages that might be a fit for your project (e.g. you can always convert to grayscale and resize them using Gimp):
famfamfam icons
fugue icons
mini icons 2 (already grey for you)
They use wireframe mono icons. You can find them here.
http://www.iconfinder.com/search/4/?q=iconset:cc_mono_icon_set
FWIW, I think you can find them here... https://github.com/styleguide/css/7.0
The directories seem from famfamfam... But the other answer already told you that.