Sounds great. Standing by.
Any changes for the action bar home icon? Right now the real action bar's home icon (the W on the left) could look much better if it didn't have the border around it. Do you mind if I'd switch to the search_w icon for the real action bar home icon as well? (See the last image in my original message.)
Thanks, Bernd
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Vibha Bamba vbamba@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Bernd! Excellent points. All the inconsistencies will ironed out once we use all icons from Wikifont. While we reuse all the native interaction patterns on android, the iconongraphy will be wikifont. So this means we will not use default android icons. Where needed we can replicate the shapes in a heavier weight which is consistent with Wikifont.
Currently, Previous/Back Next Share Save More are in the wikifont.
I'm talking to yuvi right now to export these into the appropriate size folders for android I'll ping you as soon as that is done.
Thanks Vibha
Vibha Bamba Senior Designer | WMF Design
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Bernd Sitzmann bsitzmann@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Vibha and Moiz,
I think we should look at the icons a bit more for the full release. The icon we have for editSave is from the Android Icon Pack https://developer.android.com/design/downloads/index.html, which is great but the other icons we have are much thicker, like the one for ToC. So, for beta having consistency within the app is good enough, but eventually we should get closer to the platform icon style. The Iconography Guide for Android http://developer.android.com/design/style/iconography.html also calls for less opacity in the action bar icons.
(1) Table of Contents icon: [seems very thick and fuzzy compared to the editSave from Android Icon Pack below. I think it has too much padding and by our code scaling it up to 48dp it becomes fuzzy. We should scale our fake action bar icons to just 32dp BTW.]
[image: Inline image 1]
(2) editSave from Android Icon Pack:
[image: Inline image 4]
(3) our editSave icon: [too much padding --> seems too small]
[image: Inline image 3]
Here is the latter with the rest of the screen:
I also think that the *launcher icon* should either not have any rounded border at all. At least, we should use a different icon for the action bar, like shown here (using the same icon as in the search fragment: search_w):
The Iconography Guide for Android http://developer.android.com/design/style/iconography.html states that the launcher icon should be a distinct silhouette. See also Android Design in Action: Football Apps + Launcher Icons https://developers.google.com/live/shows/97567912, you can skip to minute 22, when launcher icons are covered. Thank you, Bernd
