Support for action bar and dashboard icons

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More and more applications are adopting the new Android UI patterns as 
introduces by the Twitter and Facebook for Android apps. These are even 
introduces officially by Google 
(http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/05/twitter-for-android-closer-look-
at.html) and open-source sample code is available via the Google I/O schedule 
app (http://code.google.com/p/iosched/).

It would be nice if the Android Asset Studio would support the icon generation 
for the Action Bar and Dashboard patterns. This would further increase interest 
and adoption of these UI patterns - improving Android's general UI platform 
feel.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by erickok@gmail.com on 23 Sep 2010 at 2:09

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One issue here is that there isn't a well-defined visual style for action bar 
and dashboard icons. I'll take a look to see if something can be done here 
regardless, thanks! Feel free to throw in more ideas about this or examples in 
the comments.

Original comment by romannu...@google.com on 23 Sep 2010 at 5:07

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Original comment by romannu...@google.com on 23 Sep 2010 at 5:09

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Perhaps someone (wink, wink) could help to set the standard for the action bar. 
I, personally, have been using the Twitter's action bar size and button style 
as a guideline.

Your proposed foursquare action bar follows the same pattern 
(http://yfrog.com/5g9gqp). This style, with control for color, would be sweet!

Original comment by Mr.PaulB...@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2010 at 8:52

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Totally... will throw this in for the next batch of stencils.

Original comment by romannu...@google.com on 30 Sep 2010 at 8:58

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Awesome! Thanks for the stencils and entire Asset Studio. Truly helpful tools 
for Android designers.

Original comment by Mr.PaulB...@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2010 at 9:10

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Original comment by romannu...@google.com on 11 Oct 2010 at 7:05

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More examples:

Google IO app: 
http://bubiloop.com/system/application/images/android/com.google.android.apps.io
sched1 (code: http://code.google.com/p/iosched/)
Transdroid (only action bar): 
http://www.transdroid.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/transdroid-screenshot-0.21.
0-main.png (code: http://code.google.com/p/transdroid/)

Original comment by erickok@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2010 at 2:56

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Issue 28 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by romannu...@google.com on 21 Dec 2010 at 5:14

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Action bar stencil coming soon... asset studio changes will have to wait for 
now.

Original comment by romannu...@google.com on 29 Dec 2010 at 6:55

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Pencil stencils for Action Bar are live. I don't think there's much of a 
stencil to make for the Dashboard :-/

Leaving this open for the Asset Studio portion of the Action Bar.

Original comment by romannu...@google.com on 29 Dec 2010 at 8:52

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I've just added an Android 3.0 action bar icon generator.

Creating a generator for pre-Android 3.0 icons isn't feasible because different 
people will have different implementations of the action bar pattern, and there 
isn't a one-size-fits-all solution for that. The same goes for dashboard 
icons—there isn't a standard dashboard icon style/size, so it's not quite 
feasible.

Original comment by romannu...@google.com on 24 May 2011 at 7:59

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Thank you!

Original comment by alexvem on 24 May 2011 at 8:00

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Thanks Roman! Great work, as always.

Original comment by Mr.PaulB...@gmail.com on 24 May 2011 at 9:15

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Thanks for this Roman! Just two things I noted with the Asset Studio: 1. In the 
clipart source only empty images are showing (tiny selection boxes) on Firefox. 
2. When using my images that are basically full-size discs as a source to 
generate menu icons, the menu icons end up slightly smaller than the native 
ones (i.e. the discs are smaller), which is very disturbing to the eye. Shall I 
add two more bug reports or is that overkill for the Studio?

Original comment by pj.vando...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2011 at 8:01

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Definitely, feel free to file those.

Original comment by romannu...@google.com on 4 Jun 2011 at 8:03