Notification icons template for Android?

Question

Is there any tutorial about how to design a good icon to put in the status bar as a notification in an Android App? Ideally I'm looking for a template or an icon that I can easily modify. I'm not a designer. I need smiley faces status bar icons.

Solution 1

You can download icons from the buzzbox sdk resources page:

http://hub.buzzbox.com/android-sdk/notification-icons

there is also a photoshop file you can download and modify.

There is also one simple status bar template icon in the official template pack from Android

http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design.html#templatespack

Solution 2

Here is the information straight from the Android Developer's Page: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_status_bar.html

This also contains a link to the icon template pack

Solution 3

Check out the Android Asset Studio! It's a great tool for creating a number of Android icons, including notification icons.