Question

I’m working on an app that currently just uses a listview for a menu, but have decided to change it and create a landing screen like the ones described in this article:
What Android Apps Should Look like?

Does anyone have some guidelines in creating icons for these menu items?
I have created custom button graphics in the past, but wanted them to look like pixel art, and when put in android, they became stretched and blurred. So I plan to use different density resources as a solution. Will it work the same as the launcher icon guidelines on the android website? Should they all be the same sizes as the guidelines even though we’re talking about items on a screen?
that is..
36 x 36 px(120 dpi) 48 x 48 px(160) 72 x 72 px(240) 96 x 96 px(320)

My app will have 4 choices on the landing page. Any advice or tips would be much appreciated. I did a search but just kept coming across launcher icon questions.

Answer 1

This is what I was looking for:

To create alternative bitmap drawables for different densities, you
should follow the 3:4:6:8 scaling ratio between the four generalized
densities.

I got this from the documentation under “Alternative drawables”
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html