The Process of Designing Android Icons
Because of the popularity of the Android operating system for smart phones and other mobile devices the popularity of designing Android icons also grew very rapidly. Android operating system is open-sourced and gives all the users the chance to adjust the operating system to their needs and wishes. I am designing Android icons for 6 months now. I take a lot of pride in my work. In this article I would like to show you how I design Android icons.
First I open a new file in Photoshop. The file has to be PNG and it has to have transparent background. At this point I have to point out that you need to design different sizes of Android icons. This is because there are many different smart phones that have different sizes of screens and different resolutions. So you need to design icons 16×16, 32×32 and 64×63 pixels. Then I make a list of all applications that I need to design the icons for. I mark the functionality of the application and make the design around the functionality.