[android-developers] Re: 512x512 high res icon required?

[Mark]

I went to remove an old app from the market and it REQUIRED me to
upload a 512x512 icon before I could UNPUBLISH the app.  At least I
have a heads up now to start making all these large icons before I
need to push any updates out for my other apps.

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[android-developers] Re: 512x512 high res icon required?

[Doug Gordon]

Yes, we really need to know the actual size of the graphic when it's
viewed in order to figure out what to put in it. On my PC screen,
512x512 is HUGE and I could put a lot of detail in it, but if it gets
shrunk down to a centimeter or two on a side on someone's tablet
device, it's another story!

  Doug Gordon
  GHCS Software

On Nov 18, 9:52 am, Christophe 
wrote:
> well, that's great, but it would be better to know what we are suppose
> to put in these pictures (icon & "feature") and where it is going to
> be used BEFORE making it mandatory.
>
> On Nov 18, 2:48 pm, Warren  wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > There wasn't much notice, but there was an email that came from
> > Android Market Support that gave a maintenance window and a list of
> > changes to the market. I was also lucky enough to have designed my
> > icon at 1024x1024, which I then downsize for antialiasing. As for my
> > other apps, I guess I'll have to redo them. Slightly annoying, sure.
> > But then, they are doing this to help us market our apps, so I can't
> > complain too much ;)
>
> > Warren
>
> > On Nov 18, 4:35 am, Daniel Drozdzewski 
> > wrote:
>
> > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:16 AM, MrChaz  wrote:
> > > > You forgot to mention the required 1024 'feature' image as well,
> > > > whatever the hell that is!
>
> > > The featured 1024 is in case your app gets featured, obviously...
> > > you are right, I am guessing.
> > > The whole thing must be a quiet (half of the internet is talking about
> > > it) move to enable existing apps for Google TV.
>
> > > Polishing things is a worthy cause - just look how focused and
> > > successful Apple is with such strategy.
>
> > > Daniel

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[android-developers] Re: 512x512 high res icon required?

[Christophe]

well, that's great, but it would be better to know what we are suppose
to put in these pictures (icon & "feature") and where it is going to
be used BEFORE making it mandatory.

On Nov 18, 2:48 pm, Warren  wrote:
> There wasn't much notice, but there was an email that came from
> Android Market Support that gave a maintenance window and a list of
> changes to the market. I was also lucky enough to have designed my
> icon at 1024x1024, which I then downsize for antialiasing. As for my
> other apps, I guess I'll have to redo them. Slightly annoying, sure.
> But then, they are doing this to help us market our apps, so I can't
> complain too much ;)
>
> Warren
>
> On Nov 18, 4:35 am, Daniel Drozdzewski 
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:16 AM, MrChaz  wrote:
> > > You forgot to mention the required 1024 'feature' image as well,
> > > whatever the hell that is!
>
> > The featured 1024 is in case your app gets featured, obviously...
> > you are right, I am guessing.
> > The whole thing must be a quiet (half of the internet is talking about
> > it) move to enable existing apps for Google TV.
>
> > Polishing things is a worthy cause - just look how focused and
> > successful Apple is with such strategy.
>
> > Daniel
>
>

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[android-developers] Re: 512x512 high res icon required?

[Warren]

There wasn't much notice, but there was an email that came from
Android Market Support that gave a maintenance window and a list of
changes to the market. I was also lucky enough to have designed my
icon at 1024x1024, which I then downsize for antialiasing. As for my
other apps, I guess I'll have to redo them. Slightly annoying, sure.
But then, they are doing this to help us market our apps, so I can't
complain too much ;)

Warren


On Nov 18, 4:35 am, Daniel Drozdzewski 
wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:16 AM, MrChaz  wrote:
> > You forgot to mention the required 1024 'feature' image as well,
> > whatever the hell that is!
>
> The featured 1024 is in case your app gets featured, obviously...
> you are right, I am guessing.
> The whole thing must be a quiet (half of the internet is talking about
> it) move to enable existing apps for Google TV.
>
> Polishing things is a worthy cause - just look how focused and
> successful Apple is with such strategy.
>
> Daniel

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Re: [android-developers] Re: 512x512 high res icon required?

[Daniel Drozdzewski]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:16 AM, MrChaz  wrote:
> You forgot to mention the required 1024 'feature' image as well,
> whatever the hell that is!

The featured 1024 is in case your app gets featured, obviously...
you are right, I am guessing.
The whole thing must be a quiet (half of the internet is talking about
it) move to enable existing apps for Google TV.

Polishing things is a worthy cause - just look how focused and
successful Apple is with such strategy.

Daniel

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[android-developers] Re: 512x512 high res icon required?

[webmonkey]

> I also dispute the whole notion of a 512px "icon". By definition, an
> icon is a simple image which looks good at a small size. Even if you
> have the source graphics, an icon which works well at 48px is likely
> to look stupid when upsized to 512px. /grumble

Perhaps this will help:

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGIcons/XHIGIcons.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/2967-SW1

;-)  Mac OS X applications have had 512x512 icons this since Snow
Leopard and some are quite amazing.

http://www.cultofmac.com/icon-porn-feast-your-eyes-on-snow-leopards-beautiful-icons/15764

Although I am not sure if the hi-res icon for the Market is used in
the same way because it does not have an alpha channel



On Nov 18, 9:25 am, String  wrote:
> On Nov 17, 10:58 pm, Zsolt Vasvari  wrote:
>
> > So did any of you actually create a 512x512 icon?  I had to upsize my
> > 72x72 icon to 512x512 just to be able to upload my update.  WTF?
>
> I was fortunate in that I'd already created 512px icons for a
> different market. But yeah, definitely pretty damn annoying that this
> is suddenly *required* with no advance notice.
>
> I also dispute the whole notion of a 512px "icon". By definition, an
> icon is a simple image which looks good at a small size. Even if you
> have the source graphics, an icon which works well at 48px is likely
> to look stupid when upsized to 512px. /grumble
>
> String

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[android-developers] Re: 512x512 high res icon required?

[MrChaz]

You forgot to mention the required 1024 'feature' image as well,
whatever the hell that is!

On Nov 17, 2:39 pm, ymst  wrote:
> I've noticed that app's update/publish screen on Developer Console
> suddenly requires  "High Resolution Application Icon" which is 512x512
> 24bpp jpeg/png.
>
> are there any official info about this?
>
> ymst
> stackrmobile.com

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[android-developers] Re: 512x512 high res icon required?

[ymst]

I(We) want to know a guideline
 and it should be documented asap.

- just a high res icon? with black background? white?
- high res image with some additional
  graphic enhancement  compared to normal(low res) icon?
- image with some texts?
- like an ads banner?

and also want to know an usage of this high res icon.


ymst

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[android-developers] Re: 512x512 high res icon required?

[String]

On Nov 17, 10:58 pm, Zsolt Vasvari  wrote:

> So did any of you actually create a 512x512 icon?  I had to upsize my
> 72x72 icon to 512x512 just to be able to upload my update.  WTF?

I was fortunate in that I'd already created 512px icons for a
different market. But yeah, definitely pretty damn annoying that this
is suddenly *required* with no advance notice.

I also dispute the whole notion of a 512px "icon". By definition, an
icon is a simple image which looks good at a small size. Even if you
have the source graphics, an icon which works well at 48px is likely
to look stupid when upsized to 512px. /grumble

String

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Re: [android-developers] Re: 512x512 high res icon required?

[TreKing]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Zsolt Vasvari  wrote:

> So did any of you actually create a 512x512 icon?  I had to upsize my
> 72x72 icon to 512x512 just to be able to upload my update.  WTF?
>

I was rushing to release a bug fix when I first ran into this- needless to
say the fact that this was unnannounced and REQUIRED was annoying. I
submitted a 512x512 white square. Personally I'm not wasting time on this
until I know what it's for.

-
TreKing  - Chicago
transit tracking app for Android-powered devices

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[android-developers] Re: 512x512 high res icon required?

[JP]

Going back, I should have mentioned I was pointing at existing
releases. It would be rather rough if they kicked everybody out that
didn't produce and uploaded an 512x512 app icon in time for whatever
cutover is supposed to occur some time in the near future. Having said
that... the ensuing uproar would be quite amusing.

Going forward.
> So did any of you actually create a 512x512 icon?  I had to upsize my
> 72x72 icon to 512x512 just to be able to upload my update.  WTF?
WTF indeed. So let's say an app is not intended for large screen
devices, and the manifest explicitly says so, yet devs have to go
through the exercise to produce a 512x512 icon regardless? Somehow
this doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but hey, what do I know.
Unless, this is supposed to be used in the new app web presence, if
that's coming, but how could we know.

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[android-developers] Re: 512x512 high res icon required?

[Nathan]

On Nov 17, 2:58 pm, Zsolt Vasvari  wrote:
> So did any of you actually create a 512x512 icon?  I had to upsize my
> 72x72 icon to 512x512 just to be able to upload my update.  WTF?
>
> The problem is that a lot of small developers are not artists, so
> requiring something that size won't ensure quality and Google might as
> well just upscale the HDPI icon themselves.
>

Yes, they didn't give my creative team much notice on this. ;)

Suffice it to say my first upload won't meet the style guidelines,
although oil paint filter or cloth filter can hide a lot of
inadequacies in a scaled up image. ;)

Nathan

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[android-developers] Re: 512x512 high res icon required?

[Zsolt Vasvari]

So did any of you actually create a 512x512 icon?  I had to upsize my
72x72 icon to 512x512 just to be able to upload my update.  WTF?

The problem is that a lot of small developers are not artists, so
requiring something that size won't ensure quality and Google might as
well just upscale the HDPI icon themselves.

On Nov 17, 11:19 pm, JP  wrote:
> It very much looks like they blow anything smaller up to 512x512.
> It'll look alike.
>
> On Nov 17, 6:39 am, ymst  wrote:
>
>
>
> > I've noticed that app's update/publish screen on Developer Console
> > suddenly requires  "High Resolution Application Icon" which is 512x512
> > 24bpp jpeg/png.
>
> > are there any official info about this?
>
> > ymst
> > stackrmobile.com- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

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[android-developers] Re: 512x512 high res icon required?

[JP]

It very much looks like they blow anything smaller up to 512x512.
It'll look alike.

On Nov 17, 6:39 am, ymst  wrote:
> I've noticed that app's update/publish screen on Developer Console
> suddenly requires  "High Resolution Application Icon" which is 512x512
> 24bpp jpeg/png.
>
> are there any official info about this?
>
> ymst
> stackrmobile.com

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