Application Bar Icons for Windows Phone 7

Design Guidelines for Application Bar

You can add an application bar to your page both from XAML and code behind. There are some design guidelines for Application bar and a developer must know about these before designing and developing their Windows Phone application.

Application Bar has in-built animation and rotation support. So, use it to keep consistency across all Windows Pone applications.

Always use an image of White color with Transparent background. If you have a different theme set for your phone, the Application Bar will colorize them accordingly.

Use 48 x 48 icon images and the actual image content should place itself within 26 x 26 image

Never draw the circle for the icons as that is drawn by the Application Bar itself. image

Use icons for most commonly used commands. You can place only 1 - 4 icon buttons in the panel. Hence, if you want more than 4 commands to put in the Application Bar, use the Menu item for the additional actions.

Don't place more than 5 menu items in the application bar. This will create a scroll bar in the UI and the user will have to scroll to click on the items.

Don't add more than 20 characters in the menu items, as it doesn't have support for advance Text formatting like Trimming and/or Word Wrap.

Remember that, as the Application bar is not a Silverlight control, you can't use data binding for text. You have to hard code the text in XAML.

If you want localization support for your Application bar, you have to set the text from code behind dynamically.

Set opacity of Application bar to '0' (zero) if you want the bar overlaid on top of the page. Set it to '1' (one) if you want the page to properly adjust itself outside the covered area of application bar. image

Also remember that, all text items will be converted to lower case while running. So, never thought it as Bug.

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Now day's communication is become much easier and smoother through latest iPhone designs that make every operation smoother and faster due to easy accessibility icons designs. In case of Designing for iphone4 retina display, you will find three types of icons sizes a 29px icon for search results, a 57px icon for the home screen, and App Store big 512px icon. In this regard, you can also create universal App for different iphone models with 11 different icons designs both in 57x57 and 58x58 versions. In case of application icons the iPhone 4 is required 114x114, older iPhones requires 57x57 and iPad requires 72x72. Another features likes the setting icons and spotlight search result icons, you will find 58x58 icons for iphone 4, 50x50 for Spotlight results for iPad, and 29x29 icons sizes settings for iPad and older iPhones. At the same way, you will find different sizes o document of icons like the 320x320 for ipad, 64x64 for ipad, and 44x58 for iphone 4 as well as 22x29 for older iPhones

The fluid layouts work while change in the density is minor, however are not any help with iOS non-Retina to the Retina display transition. Image demonstrates what will happen if the iPhone app was padded for catering for higher resolution display of iPhone 4. The taps and buttons areas will be of same size in the pixels, however half its physical size because of higher pixel density, and making things much harder to read as well as to tap. Unluckily, making use of the vector based images generally tends being resource hungry also lacks the pixel level control. Increase in the resources might not be the issue for the desktop OS, however it is the considerable problem for the mobile OS.

App Bar Icons for Windows Phone 7 feature:

Sizes: 48x48
File formats: PNG
Colors: white
Background: transparent
Icon quantity: 258
Compatibility: Windows 8, Windows Mobile

Note: Always use an image of White color with Transparent background. If you have a different theme set for your phone, the Application Bar will colorize them accordingly.

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