I am going to develop an android app, but unlike my previous apps, this time I have to tell someone what graphics and assets I require even before starting the development. The designer has designed all the screens, and now looking at those screens I have to tell him what resources(in what sizes and densities), fonts, icons etc I require.
Does there exist a checklist, which cleanly lists all the required graphics(for different sizes and densities), and assets including those graphics which are required only at the time of app publishing.
I work in a company where I have to tell designers as well. So despite any hard mapped check list, it always helps if you make the designer understand a bit on how the Android works.
Don’t forget that color codes, XML drawables (borders, gradients) and 9-patch are way more efficient than static PNGs.
Then I make him do everything just for the Galaxy Nexus on XHDPI and only after the whole development is complete that I ask for the other resized assets (because assets tend to change throughout the project and then I don’t have to be updating all of them).
Despite what is on the mock-ups is just a few more assets:
the other you’ll use registering on Google Play is the screen shots which you can get from the real app, after it’s complete.