Question

So for the different screen sizes, you have the following sizes for the launcher icons:

ldpi (240 x 320px) icon 36×36, 120dpi

mdpi (320 x 480px) icon 48×48, 160dpi

hdpi (480 x 800px) icon 72×72, 240dpi

xhdpi (720 x 1280px) icon 96×96, 320dpi

(Google Play 512×512)

If you use those sizes without padding, I’ve noticed that the icons are bigger than for example the ones youtube and facebook use. Does anyone know the size of those icons (or the padding)?

Even better, can I download somewhere templates with the same sizes, such as http://developer.android.com/shareables/icon_templates-v4.0.zip?

Thanks

Answer 1

The best example I have seen is foursquare’s open source android version. If you download the source you’ll be able to browse through the res/drawable-xxx folders and see how they handle various cases with their icons that appear to be approximately the same size as, say, facebook’s android icons (maybe a pixel or two more padding).

I recommend checking out this project and simply examining their files in your photo editor of choice.

Just as a note: foursquare is no longer open sourcing their app (and hasn’t for some time now…), so the code found at the above repo may be a little stale.