How to Design App Icons for iPhone and iPad

from Web Design Ledger by Jake Rocheleau
Mobile iOS devices have seen some tremendous growth over the 2010 period. With the growing sales of iPads and the popular release of the new iPhone 4 Apple has had an amazing year. Not only in these two markets but all iPod Touch devices are also running iOS which can access the App Store.

Here we’ll be going over brief ideas of how to design icons for iOS devices. There are many sizes and scales which require careful attention to detail and focus. iOS designers are required to submit an icon with their app into the store during publishing.

The process may be time consuming but the rewards are outstanding and provide a true sense of empowerment.

iOS App Development

The main process for designing an app for iOS requires two bits. The frontend design concept requires a branding or icon design to fit in the Apple App Store. Designers are also required to craft UI wireframe concepts for each screen of the mobile app.

Developers then enter XCode and spend hours working with views and libraries to produce a fantastic final result. Combining the graphics and programming can produce amazing applications to stand the test of time.

Designers do not often consider how much work is put into development of a mobile application. The style is different with Android-powered devices where Google hosts an open platform for any and all to build on. The iOS App store is much more exclusive and also offers the greatest chance of reaping a small profit.

Graphics Split on iPhone/iPad

Each icon has a specific size which is used for a certain purpose. The large amount of devices currently running iOS means designers must be on their toes to incorporate a keen icon set with each mobile app.

iPhone/iPod Icon Sizes


Application Icon – 57×57px
iPhone 4 icon – 114×114px
App Store Icon – 512×512px
Spotlight Search – 29×29px
iPhone 4 Spotlight – 58×58px
The iPhone doesn’t have many icon size variations. The official app icon which rests on one of your users’ home screens is 57 pixels length and width. The iPhone 4 supports higher resolution settings so it’s optional to include a 114 pixel icon, though not required.

The largest size necessary of an icon is 512 x 512 pixels. This is a fairly large graphic which is displayed throughout the App Store and when browsing apps in Cover Mode. When opening Photoshop to design a new icon it’s always recommended to start at 512 and scale your way down.

Spotlight search supports slightly smaller sizes for icons. 29×29 may seem downright puny but when you’re viewing the search results screen it’s a fairly intuitive interface. The iPhone 4 similarly supports a Spotlight Search icon refined to 58 x 58 pixels for the higher resolution screens.

iPad Icon Sizes

Application Icon – 72×72px
App Store Icon – 512×512px
Spotlight Search – 50×50px
Settings Icon – 29×29px
The application icon is slightly larger this time around. The app store and cover flow sizes are still the same with an increase in our spotlight search dimensions. The iPad boasts a fairly large tablet touchscreen so icons can fit nicely.

The 29px version previous mentioned can be re-used for iPad as a settings icon. If you create a settings page within the iOS general functionality it will display a small icon next to your tab. This can be nice to allow users to change themes, include different accounts/usernames, and also fiddle with smaller options regarding your app.

Basic Icon Rules

The App Store only accepts applications which offer PNG files for icons. For many detailed reasons PNGs are able to hold deeper colors while not requiring much hard drive space.

You may also notice that icons from the app store have a gloss over their exterior. This is an effect added at runtime and shouldn’t be added into your actual icon. There is a Boolean switch which any app developer can use to turn the glossy icon effect on or off. However most icons benefit from the effect when done properly, so it’s best to leave this setting alone.

The iOS platform also applies rounded corners to icons in most screens. When designing your icon set be sure to keep all corners flat at 90 degrees for a perfect square. This is very important because Apple will add the rounded corner effects for your icons by default. If you apply this beforehand your graphics may publish improperly.

UI Tips & Design Kits

Icon designers should also shy away from using transparency in designs. This is reflected poorly when apps get published to the store since iOS has a difficult time rendering areas from an icon as transparent. If you’d like some inspiration check out our best iPhone apps for web designers.

There are also many resources available to app designers today. Icon artists are fairly open about sharing their projects and love helping the design community with their contribution. Browse the many UI kits for iPhone and iPad development which are free of charge and easy to download.

This has been a developed overview for starting iOS icon design. The process will require months of hard work and dedicated practice to master such an art. However the skills and production value of iPhone apps is tremendous and surely icon design is a skill worth acquiring.

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A brilliant back pass by Cristiano Ronaldo’s

Atletico 2-0 last night in Derby Real Madrid won the game, but Cristiano Ronaldo was not in his brilliant form.

Ronaldo for the home side struggled to shine. Despite wearing his new Nike Safari shoes. Ronaldo failed to get on the score sheet.following a recent spell in La Liga, Ronaldo is apparently touched a goal which all resulted in.

Ronaldo did   though  bring into being a moment of magic.A viral hit on YouTube  that will likely became and in many ways proved that the Portuguese forward can improvise with the best of them.

Back to Xabi  Alonso, Ronaldo played a looping ball .In the dying moments  of the match.doesn’t sound   that  great does it  ? It was though.

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E-Prowl Fakers

Move aside B-Town, Indian politicians who have won hand down, with having bogus profiles on most popular social networking site twitter. In real life it may be quite difficult to track them but on Twitter and other social networking web site their bogus profiles are all over the place. I checked out a few biggie politicians profiles and here is what i found sharing with you people.

Real Identity: Rahul Gandhi

Twitter Con : @Owl Gandhi

Tweets: Thank you mahatma U gave country freedom, last name to my family and Delhi ki gaddi.

Real Identity: Sonia Gandhi

Twitter Con : @Sonia GaXdhi President of the Indian National Congress & They know it.

Tweets: Paid news should be banned  & the money better deployed in building robust infrastructure for the poor people.

Real Identity: Dr. Man Mohan Singh

Twitter Con :@DrYumYumSingh:

In her majesty’s service

Tweets Con:I address Myself at a public rally. It was a very moving experience for me. The crowd hardly moved until  I was removed

Real Identity: Laloo Prasad Yadav

Twitter Con: @lalooyadav:If you messing with the Bihar, I am sending you to the Tihar! Mind it, sasuraa!

Tweets: Paul the octopus making good predictions in the football WC. Hum bhi use katoonga next election mein. Par dono box pe hamarhi phtu hoga.

Real Identity: Suresh Kalamadi

Twitter Con: @kalmadispeaks:I am suresh kalmadi- CEO of the Common Wealth Games (CWG)2010 Tweets: skin clinic contacted me.. thy want to test my skin …just to ujnderstand how can it be so thick..WOW ANOTHER WAY 2 MAKE MONEYJ

Real Identity: P Chidambaram

Twitter Con @PChee_D**nBram: Intellectually Arrogant in a party of jokers!

Tweets:Mantra of India. Add Gandhi surname to a person and turn a nerd to the most intelligent.

Visionary person in India!

Madhya Pradesh "Heart of India"

Madhya Pradesh, heart of India. Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan these are neighbor state.Vindhya and Satpura two hill ranges of Madhya Pradesh.

These hills traditionally placing a boundary wall between north and south India. Madhya Pradesh is state of agriculturally fertile have rivers such as Narmada, Tapti, , Chambal and Betwa. Narmada worshipped locally and nationally as a Hindu goddess like Gnga river . Narmada runs between the two hill ranges. 

Madhya Pradesh also known as landscape of plateaus by its natural features. This state is fully naturalized of nature with river valleys hills and forests but here can been seen as plateau land with low hills. Weather of this state is mostly warm and dry. In summer time here unbearably hot weather .

Madhya Pradesh is primarily rural state and its have larger tribal economy which are running with agriculture and forest .Now Madhya Pradesh developing here urban area with most structure way with global presence

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Raavana

The most anticipated film of recent times is all set to hit the screens in a couple of weeks and it is none other than Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Vikram starrer Raavana directed by Maniratnam. After experimenting with different genres, Maniratnam this time has reportedly made a film which is a more of a modern day version of the great Indian epic Ramayana in which the wife of Lord Rama, Sita was abducted by the demon king of Lanka, Raavana. It is being said that this modern version will have a new twist of the great epic.

The film is a confrontation between Dev a policeman and Beera a tribal. Dev manages to rip open Beeras world which changes lives, changes fortunes. Beera though injured, but enraged hits back at Dev by abducting his wife t a jungle. The forest becomes the settling ground between good and evil. As said earlier, a lot of hopes are pinned on this film not only for its story, screenplay and the director, but also for its ensemble star cast. Apart from Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Vikram being the main protagonists, Govinda, Ravi Kishan, Nikhil Dwivedi, Priyamani, and Tejaswini Kolhapure play prominent roles in the film.

Kites the Film Story Thoughts

Kites
Passon know no longuages

Starring:Hrithik Roshan, Nicholas Brown, Luce Rains, Barbara Mori
Director:Anurag Basu  
Language:Hindi
Genre:Romance / Action / Thriller
Banner:Film Kraft

‘Kites’ Rakesh Rosan film Bollywood film which is willing to release world wide and also  its  distinguish two part release the Indian version and the other world scenario. Just like  kites fly in the sky  in this film Barbara and  Hritik fall in each other love and they want to fly with together in this world without any obstacle in their way .  

But Hritik and Barbara  have their own lives with some one else and want to broke this live because they have fallen love in each other , difficulties is begin you can say the battle field of love now prepare from here and movie now quick move in action thrill passion for love and draw a line of art to attract the world wide youth .

Specially Indian and Bollywood industries an entry of Hollywood actress play lead role in this movie so  the people want to see, I think they are waiting this movie because before three idiot which make a lot of fun for people at least two month they willing to thrill now and only kites is hope which do this  a good movie for Indian people and Bollywood in this session.  This is my thouts may I want to know your thoughts also……………

Life Without love is like a tree
Without blossom and fruit

Avatar Won't Make You Go Native

In the film Avatar, an ex-marine leaves his body and enters an alien world to be part of Aavtar program. And James Cameron hopes the same thing will happen to you, thanks to totally-immersive CG and 3-D. By that measure, Avatar fails. But it delivers a fantastic ride.
And here's your spoiler warning. Spoilers ahead!

So in Avatar, Jake Sully is a marine who's suffered a spinal injury (someone "blew a hole in my life," as he puts it) and his life is going nowhere. Until he gets a chance to go to the far-off Pandora and take his dead brother's place, piloting a genetically engineered "Avatar." Built out of alien DNA, the avatar allows Sully to walk among the Na'Vi, the giant blue natives of Pandora, and look like one of them. Because Sully is a warrior, like the Na'Vi tribespeople, he finds acceptance in their ranks — even as he knows his fellow humans are preparing to relocate the Na'Vi by force, to get at a rich supply of a rare substance called Unobtanium.

As Jake learns to use his new alien body, leaping from treetops and clifftops, romancing the chief's sexy daughter (Zoe Saldana) and bonding with a flying dragon for life, you'll discover your new favorite escapist fantasy. Jake falls in love with the excitement and the nobility and yes, the biodiversity, of Pandora, and you're right there with him. Avatar's journey really does feel magical and transformative, for Jake and for the audience.

It's hard to imagine a movie where medium and story are so closely married. Even as Jake Sully climbs into a coffin and abandons his human body for a spry alien one, Cameron is hoping to pull you into his alien world to a much greater degree than the usual movie immersion. Cameron has spent untold millions of Fox's dollars to make you forget you're really in a movie theater, instead of on an alien planet. The whole exercise is a metaphor for the experience of watching any movie, with Cameron's camera lens represented by the beds that transfer people's minds into alien bodies.

And the film's 3-D, CG and motion-capture really are all they're cracked up to be. The scenes which look trifling on your little computer window become etched on your mind's eye, when you see them on the big screen in 3-D. The transition from live-action to animation feels like a costume change, and when live-action people are on the screen with CG characters, it's miles away from Roger Rabbit, or even from Andy Serkis' Gollum.

Cameron is clearly saying: Look what technology can do. It can tight-beam your consciousness into a totally foreign time and place. And just maybe, like Jake Sully, you'll find yourself going native.

There's only one problem with this notion, and it nearly wrecks an otherwise nearly perfect movie: The further we venture into Pandora's heart, the more unconvincing it is. At first, the forest moon is heart-breakingly beautiful and well-realized, and every weird creature on the planet stands out in its own way. When Jake gets chased by big dinosaur-like monsters, it's tons more thrilling than your standard Roland Emmerich/Michael Bay CG spectacle. But once Jake gets himself embedded among the alien Na'Vi people, the illusion starts to fall apart.

This is partly because once you're surrounded by Pandora's fantasy-land, it starts to get just a bit too pretty, and certainly too rich. About the time hundreds of glowing tree-spirits land on Jake's blue avatar body, the animation starts to feel a bit... cartoony.

But more than that, we never really see the Na'Vi as a convincing society — instead we see a ludicrous "noble savage" stereotype, that only gets cruder and more ridiculous the deeper into it we go. When Jake is only interacting with Saldana's character, Neytiri, their interaction feels natural enough. But once you're in the middle of a Na'Vi crowd scene, you have a harder time believing in these people. And that, in turn, may pull you right out of the movie.

Cameron has clearly thought endlessly about every aspect of this movie's worldbuilding, but it never seems to have occurred to him that populating his planet with Pocohontas/Tarzan ooga-booga people would be a mistake. The Na'Vi are animalistic and in tune with nature, and they're good-hearted in direct proportion to their simplicity. They worship a mystical world-mind and its messengers, magic happy tree spirits that connect them to their ancestors — through their magical native-people hair. (Their tree/ancestor religion turns out to have a scientific basis, to be fair.)

By the time the Na'Vi's matriarch is leading the whole tribe in a hippie ritual, with lots of swaying in front of the sacred tree, you'll be rolling your eyes so much, it may interfere with the 3-D stereoscopy.
(When I mentioned the term "forest moon" a little while ago, it may have created an association in your mind. That association was not entirely unintentional.)

In a way, Cameron's strengths work against him a little bit here. The humans' world feels completely lived-in. Pandora's soldiers could have stepped right out of the first reel of Aliens. Cameron is in love with all of the toys, from the Huey-helicopter-inspired flying machines to the "avatar" chambers. His human characters are mostly well-worn archetypes, from the weaselly evil corporate guy (Giovanni Ribisi, channeling Aliens' Paul Reiser) to Stephen Lang's brutal Col. Quaritch (bringing the George C. Scott) to Sigourney Weaver's tough scientist with a heart of gold. The human world isn't as original as Pandora, but it feels a lot more fully inhabited. The contrast doesn't do the dragon-riding, hissing, deeply spiritual tree people any favors.

It's likely that if the Na'Vi felt as real as the human society — if you could feel the dirt under your fingernails after a day's bow-hunting and chafe under the patriarchal tribal leadership — then the escapism of running off to join the clan might not seem as alluring. In his earlier movies, Cameron never had to try and make us fall in love with Skynet, or the Alien queen. So it's not surprising that he stumbles when he tries to create an "other" that's lovable rather than scary.

The movie's other big problem is somewhat related: It gets preachy about environmentalism, to an extent that may grate on your nerves. Early on, when Jake is learning about the nature-loving ways of the Na'Vi, he grumbles that he hopes this "tree-hugger crap" won't be on the final exam. And it totally is.

But like I said, Avatar is otherwise a nearly perfect movie. (It's up to you whether stereotypical native peoples or eco-lectures are a deal-breaker.) As an action-adventure movie, it's vastly superior to pretty much any you've seen in the past few years. As science fiction, it's thrilling, because it's pro-exploration and its most unambiguously heroic character is Weaver's character, Dr. Grace Augustine. It shouldn't feel so refreshing, to have a smart, heroic scientist whose scientific explanations are cool and important to the movie, but it is. Weaver has lost none of her fire, and is a joy to watch.

Sam Worthington, as Jake, does a great job of selling his slow transformation from cynical wise-ass human to a warrior of the Na'Vi people, without overplaying it. Worthington has that rare gift, of seeming totally down-to-Earth even when he's in the middle of a totally outlandish scene, and it keeps him completely relatable even as he's embracing a totally alien culture. He really does carry the movie, in both his human and alien bodies.

And you have to admire a movie whose central message is that only by becoming a wholly artificial life form can you touch something true and natural. This contradiction is at the heart of the movie — a luddite fable made with technology so advanced, Cameron had to create it from scratch.

Cameron deliberately avoids any of the usual cop-outs you'd see with this kind of story. The natives know from the first time they lay eyes on Jake that he's a "dream walker" (their word for alien meat-puppets operated by sleeping humans. And they call humans the "sky people.") When they come to accept Jake as one of them, it's with the knowledge that he's actually a tiny pink-skin in a tank somewhere. And the movie's arc isn't the standard one, of Jake realizing that he's "really" a human and should stop trying to pretend to be one of the aliens. Rather, becoming a genetically engineered, and hence synthetic, creature allows Jake to discover who he really is.

So, to sum up, everything you've heard or thought about Avatar is true. It's one of the most vivid, visceral movies you've ever seen. It's cheesy enough for ten Swiss villages. It's James Cameron delivering an action thrill ride, at the top of his game. It's a schlocky Dances With Wolves rip-off. It will transform the way you think about movies forever.