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Icons for PDA Developers

By: Dmitry Costenco

Developing mobile software greatly differs from coding for desktop PCs. There are multiple mobile platforms around, each with their own hardware and operating system. Every mobile platform puts its own requirements on the visual design of UI. Screens differ in resolutions and color depth, often requiring exotic formats and resolutions for graphical elements. Windows Mobile sets its own requirements, while Symbian phones and mobile devices use different sizes and formats of images. Are you up to the challenge of drawing your own graphics for the variance of PDA devices?

While VGA resolution is used on many of today's PDA platforms, 320x240 and lower resolutions are still more common on low-end PDA platforms as well as on many mobile phones. You just can't use desktop-resolution graphics on these platforms, or you'd be wasting precious screen space.

Serious PDA developers need their graphics in different formats, resolutions and color depths to fit the requirements of various PDA platforms. Windows Mobile requires graphics in ICO format, while Symbian requires for BMP or even MBM (Symbian OS multiple bitmap file) format. Other PDA operating systems may have their own system requirements as to the format and size of graphics used in their applications. In either case, you have to provide various sizes of images for the mobile OS to select the most appropriate icon size for the current zoom state of the user interface. If you skip one or more sizes, the PDA device will resize icons dynamically, which results in a significant loss of visual quality, clarity and legibility of the images. The required icon sizes and resolutions are specific to the operating system, but the more you provide the better.

As you see, supplying your icons available in different formats, sizes and color resolutions is not a benefit but a mere requirement for just entering the market. Are you up to the challenge of creating your icons to the strict specifications of the many PDA device and operating system manufacturers?

Luckily, you don't have to! It is now easy to enhance the appearance of your PDA applications with properly designed icons without having to ordering or drawing them in-house. Perfect Mobile Icons are available in a number of common sizes used in mobile systems, including 16x16, 20x20, 24x24, 32x32, and 48x48 pixels, and are supplied in 16 and 256 colors, while providing 32-bit True Color versions for high-end VGA-resolution mobile devices and desktop synchronization tools. With respect to the different format requirements of mobile system manufacturers, each icon is supplied in Windows Icon (ICO), Bitmap (BMP), GIF, and PNG formats.

Perfect Mobile Icons are a matching set of over 50 icons developed in common gamma and sharing common color and drawing style. Your mobile software will look professional and consistent on any platform. Just visit Perfect Mobile Icons page to see full-size online preview of these icons!

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Since SibCode's founding in 2005 and as of 2007, Dmitry Costenco develops web sites. He works for quality web interface, which will help to web surfers.

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