I just noticed that when I create an icon out from my svg sources for the different diplay resolutions [ldpi-xhdpi] with the 'Android Icon Set Generator' using the Android Plugin for Eclipse (v21.1.0), lets take an Action Bar Icon as an example, the Generator stopped producing the ldpi icons.
I know the Generator produced those ldpi icons in the past and previous versions of the Android plugin. The new version now only creates mdpi-xhdpi versions and so does the Asset Studio you find online.
Now the ldpi version needs to scaled down manually, which I find inconvenient...
The Icon Design Guideline still mentiones the ldpi resolution, though...
Anyone knows if there's a new guidline to stop bundling ldpi icons with your apps? Or maybe there are no new Android devices with ldpi screens produced, which makes the ldpi resolution deprecated?
I'd be happy if someone had some info on this matter...
Cheers
I am not entirely sure why Google (via the ADT plugin) has stopped creating Icon Sets for ldpi. That being said, even the Android Assest Studio has stopped creating icons for ldpi.
However, there are still quite a handful of devices which may support ldpi. Android, however, (in my experience) does a good job of scaling down resources from the mdpi set. Scaling up might be a problem. scaling down, not so much.
Personally speaking, since I have almost exclusively used the Android Asset Studio for generating the resources for me, and considering that they too don't provide for ldpi anymore, I typically create the Launcher Icon manually and have stopped using the drawable-ldpi folder for other assets within the app. And I have never faced a problem. But I suspect, this really is matter of choice, and hence, quite subjective. I have not seen any adverse effect of not using it but someone might just have.
If you do choose to create ldpi assets, the ratio is: 3:4:6:8 with 3 being for ldpi going up till xhpdi. Going forward, the ldpi assets will need to be created manually.
Anyone knows if there's a new guidline to stop bundling ldpi icons
with your apps? Or maybe there are no new Android devices with ldpi
screens produced, which makes the ldpi resolution deprecated?
There is no saying if the ldpi bucket will be deprecated and if yes, when. But there is a list of devices according to their pixel density bucket here: http://blog.blundell-apps.com/list-of-android-devices-with-pixel-density-buckets/. Not a big list, but the author of that post did make an effort. There is another one here: https://github.com/mataanin/android-devices/blob/master/phones%20ui%20-%20specs.csv. But I suspect, considering the deluge of devices, it would be humanly impossible to list them all.
There is also this list on Wikipedia: List of displays by pixel density and the Android Device Gallery.
Please keep in mind that 9.8% of the market is running a small, ldpi device, regardless of the operating system.
Thank you iceman, I was able to resolve this issue by deleting my iconset in the drawable ldpi folder. (I only have 1 icon set).
