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It looks like in some areas the nearest-neighbour scaling is used, this is 
leading to blocky/pixelated icons.

For example try the "my location" icon in tabs section, compare the results to 
using the same icon in the menu section. It's badly scaled in the tab sections, 
and nicely scaled in the menus section.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
Using OS X 10.5.8 and Firefox 3.5.13

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
When dragging over a tab or menu stencil object, it should display the image. 
Instead it is white.

Ive tried to install the pencil collections into the Pencil application both on 
Mac and in Ubuntu. But all I get is a "Error installing collection", 
"TypeError: collection is undefined"


What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install Pencil (latest version 1.2)
2. Download your zips for Pencil from this project (0.1 versions)
3. In pencil, "Tools->Install new Collection..."
4. Choose any of the downloaded zips

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect that I do not get an error message.
Instead I get"Error installing collection", "TypeError: collection is undefined"


Please provide any additional information below.
Firefox: 3.6.12
Tried both on Ubuntu and MacOSX with the same result

It would be nice to have an easy way to create Preference Screens.

if I use Chrome on Windows to generate menu/actionbar icons, the edge of icon 
is not smooth. please check the screenshot

Request for a 9-patch generator like the draw9patch tool bundled with the SDK.

The icons generated at 
http://android-ui-utils.googlecode.com/hg/asset-studio/dist/icons-notification.h
tml can be downloaded as a zip file. 

Steps:
1. Generate your icon
2. Download the zip file
3. Unzip the file
4. Look for drawable-hdpi-v9, drawable-mdpi-v9, drawable-ldpi-v9 
directories/assets.

Observed: 
No such directories or assets found.

Expect:
Assets for Gingerbread in the correct directories.

Market now takes 512px launcher icons..

The clipart vectors don't have smooth edges when creating icons.

I created a status icon using the map pin clipart and when it appears on the 
phone it looks jagged.

A screenshot of my phone shows how the pin looks like in gingerbread.

Currently importing an image appears to scan the image for approximately 
non-white/transparent images, and replacing them with black.

E.g. the attached image is that of the alarm clock ic_lock_idle_alarm.png and a 
menu icon made out of it.

The resulting menu icon does not have hands on the clock. 

It would be really good for the app to do whatever treatment of the source 
image so a little more detail is visible in the resulting assets.

I am not a developer but I am quite bad with design.

I liked the resize of resources you have in the web but I would like to have 
some sort of console access to automatically resource everything.

When generating the tab icons from clip art, it seems as if the selected and 
unselected icons are reversed. Selected icons should be gray, while unselected 
icons are white.

Currently, all icons need either the square or round background. For some icons 
this is not appropriate or wanted.

It would be good to be able to choose different shapes (maybe from the clipart 
itself) or choose to have no background at all.

Currently the # value of the color in the color chooser popup for foreground 
and background colors seems to be uneditable.

It could be useful to allow this to be an editable field so a color could be 
entered quickly using the # text area instead of entering each separate value 
in each separate box.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
Drop a button stencil in Pencil.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
One expects to have an uniformly transparent (or opaque, in this case) button, 
but the central section of the button stencil is semi-transparent and the sides 
are fully opaque. See attachment.

Please provide any additional information below.
Running Pencil 1.2 build 0 on Windows 7 Professional x64. Android Basic 
Controls pack v0.1

Persist form fields in document hash

Perhaps it's asking for too much but I would like to have a animator creator.
Something more interactive that the plain old xml.

Would be useful to enable Google Web Fonts for all the tools where you can 
select text/font.

Sometimes I need icons with transparent backgrounds (encoded as pngs, of 
course). Also, a scaling factor would be nice to have for custom menus and 
whatnot. I need larger-than-standard icons, sometimes.

Hi I just download stand alone Pencil 1.2, I also downloaded featured *.zip
files.

But I can't import it to Pencil. Instruction might need update, as I can't just 
drag and drop it to Pencil.

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.

see subject

Is there an action bar control planned for the Pencil stencils?

Hello, Since Android 2.3 has been released I cannot use your asset studio for 
menu icons anymore, because it generetes them with more padding, so they are 
smaller on Android 2.2 and earlier. Could you please generate both sets as you 
do with Notification icons?

The star clipart in any section is not displayed correctly in the previews.

After saving the picture, the "psychedelic star" also appears in the picture.


Appears to me that the drawing path (vectors) of the clipart-shape is wrong at 
some point.

Awesome work by the way, Android is definitely lacking good tools to allow devs 
create a consistent look and feel. thx

View an Android Asset Studio web page such as 
/asset-studio/dist/icons-tab.html: at the bottom it specifies that the 
generated art is subject to Creative Commons Attribution license.

There should also be a link to instructions from the Android Asset Studio team 
which define the attribution (if any) that receivers of the generated art 
should implement in their products.

The effects generated, both normal and fancy, are not really visible on phones.
It would be good to add an "effect intensity chooser" bar

Pretty self-explanatory. Potentially handle images, colors, other drawables, 
etc. Or just leave placeholders for dependent drawables. Needs some more 
spec'ing.

I'd love to see support for the hew Honeycomb widgets in this project!

When I used the asset studio a long time ago (used it right after the project 
got public), the icons worked really good, nicely smooth icons.

Now, and I noticed this quite some time ago now (6 month), every icon I make is 
aliased. It doesn't matter if I use Chromium (12.0.742.91 (87961)) or Firefox 
(4 and 5).

I am on Ubuntu 11.04 but IIRC this also happend with 10.10


Thx

The official icon templates contain an example textures pack. Those should be 
optional overlays in the launcher icon generator.

See misc/appwidget-template for an idea of what we can generate in the Asset 
Studio

Hi. 

Is there any XML generator that generates the layouts?

Regards,
Amir

What steps will reproduce the problem?
sh make.sh at android-ui-utils/asset-studio

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Build it

Please provide any additional information below.

macarse@labu64:asset-studio$ sh make.sh 
find: images: No such file or directory
Buildfile: build.xml

BUILD FAILED
/Users/macarse/Documents/android-ui-utils/asset-studio/src/js/build.xml:25: 
Cannot find ${flintjs.dir}/flintjs.build.xml imported from 
/Users/macarse/Documents/android-ui-utils/asset-studio/src/js/build.xml

Use JSZip (http://jszip.stuartk.co.uk/) to allow downloading all output images 
generated in the Asset Studio at once.

Only potential issue is around framework assets in the menu icon generator -- 
since it's cross-domain.

There is no stencil for a keyboard right now--the only thing that is close is 
to extensively edit an options menu.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Install Pencil 1.2, Install Android stencils .2.  Drag status bar into new 
document.  Does not work as per attached image.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Should see status bar with graphics, just see blank box.

Please provide any additional information below.

Several other stencils do not work as well: options menu, popup dialogue, all 
with same issue.

- Go to create tab icons
- start filling out fields
- look at preview of the output images.  Looks great.  Selected icons have 
white fill.
- Download the icons.  Look at the files.  Selected icons have *gray* fill.  
The selected filenames and unselected filenames are inverted!

Current text for unsupported browsers is not descriptive enough. We should 
indicate why certain browsers are unsupported.

Asset Studio includes padding when generating menu icons, so that, for example, 
an mdpi icon will actually occupy no more than 32 of the 48 available pixels.  
This may jibe with recommended guidelines, but does not allow the user to match 
the size of, for example, Android's own ic_menu_info_details icon, a circle 
which is 36 pixels at mdpi, four pixels being a noticeable difference of about 
10%.  Unless I am missing something, there does not appear to be a way to 
override this padding (I thought perhaps the "don't trim" option would work, 
but it doesn't.)

The new market changes require 512x512 launcher icons. 

If I'm generating nice shiny icons with this tool, I'd also like a version that 
is 512x512.

It would be nice to have the dialog background available as part of the 
stencils.
You should be able to set the title text at least. The rest of the different 
dialogs seen in android can be created with buttons and list views that are 
already included.

Thanks

Ability show guides (orange and blue rectangles in icon templates) in Asset 
Studio. Probably best as a checkbox.

Drag and drop will not work to import external files even when they are a .Zip 
file.

Also when I try to the Icon 2.3 collection I am getting a error, see attachment.

Request for the AI or EPS (or any other vector) format
for the [appwidget-template] assets beside PSD format [drawable-hdpi]
required for a sample source files and basic template
that created officially.

Does android-ui-utils support xhdpi? Would be awesome if it do.

It would be great to allow creation of an entire styles.xml + 
button/edittext/spinner/etc graphics for quick and easy theming of apps. Kind 
of like jQuery UI's theme roller.

This is a massive effort, but may be well worth it.

It would be nice if the Launcher icons:
Android Asset Studio » Icon generators » Launcher icons

... allow user to chose a clipart and have it render on a transparent 
background, without the button look.

Interactive game both live & vr if supported with gaming glasses.  Business 
plan includes various games, all family friendly, and designed for maximum 
fun...  All this will be tied into various items to be sold online & in-person 
(live) before, and after the game.  Business plan also includes giving prizes 
away during, and at end of each game based on what they are playing.  Huge 
potential for generating co-opted marketing, where new revenue comes from all 
angles.  My plans have never failed to deliver results in real world settings.  
This is not just another idea or game that will die fast, but will expand 
globally quickly with a good support staff, and leader.  

I plan to present this game to both Apple & Google, and various other 
competitors before Dec. of 2011, so a launch date can be set for April, 2012.  

Your launcher icon style is FANTASTIC for displaying information on a button.

My request is for variable, or incremental, pixel height to help generate tiled 
buttons for different screen sizes.  

Android apps are not as button-intensive as mine, but you are likely to see 
more of the tiled button format in larger screen functional applications (think 
app 'home' screens, Kiosks, and washing machines).  Your launcher icon format 
would make an EXCELLENT Android Standard for these applications. The attached 
screen shots compare my old buttons (very similar to android's default button) 
and a button created with your launcher icon in blue.  

Functionality Request:
Variable, or incremental, Pixel Height and Width.  Generate tile-style buttons 
in three sizes.

I wish:
Automated 9-patch generation in the three sizes
Concave (or other) Shading for 'pressed' button state

Thanks for making my app look great!