Android Official Icons for XXHDPI and XXXHDPI

Question

With screen resolutions increasing in pixels Google is promoting the use of XXHDPI and XXXHDPI, icons in the official documents.

http://developer.android.com/design/style/iconography.html

But in their official Android download packs they only go up to XHDPI.

http://developer.android.com/design/downloads/index.html

Do they expect us to create these icons when can't be bothered too?

What are other developers doing especially for the Holo icons, are they creating it from SVG.

Update

If you download the the Icon Pack and not the "all pack", it now contains XXHDPI icons but still no XXXHDPI.

http://developer.android.com/downloads/design/Android_Design_Icons_20131106.zip

Solution 1

As the updated question already says: The official Android icon pack now contains the XXXHDPI icons.

Solution 2

Since they provide ai file, which is vector-based, you can export any scale you want.

Btw, Nexus 5 (and many other 1080p phones) is already XXHDPI, so you are supposed to provide at least XXHDPI icons.

Solution 3

Nexus 6 is somewhere between xxhdpi and xxxhdpi. Google has recently started to encourage the usage of xxxhdpi icons, as you can see here...https://github.com/google/material-design-icons

Comments

[Paul Verest]

Could you please check exactly is Nexus xxxhdpi device using github.com/mportuesisf/ScreenInfo see also github.com/paulvi/displayclasses

[Sotti]

I know what I write. It's not necessary to check it. android-developers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/…

[Sotti]

This is not true. For example Nexus 6 uses xxxhdpi resources. goo.gl/zoR4ji Other devices with QHD displays probably are using them as well, the Galaxy S6 for sure.

[Sotti]

Nexus 5 launcher icons must be xxxhdpi.

[max.mustermann]

When I posted this, it was true :-) - and there was no S6 or Nexus 6

[Sotti]

I wrote it just to inform others, not to let you down. Just the way stackoverflow works. Probably I have outdated answers around here.

[TWiStErRob]

Try reading that update again, it says yes xxdpi, no xxxhdpi.

[TWiStErRob]

This is the right answer, it should be replaced on developer.android.com. I opened a request for that: b.android.com/161513, star it if you care.