Hey jpwain. Thanks for the icons. I never quite understood why artists would spend time on free icons though. How do you guys make money?
It's a work of passion
The only reward for my art that I look for is attribution (Creative Commons license in this case) and that people who find it useful or just cool spread the word by telling friends, blogging, linking, twittering, etc.
Hey guys, just a heads up -- I've published some free (creative commons licensed) iPhone toolbar and tab bar icons at glyphish.com. I also included guidelines on how they work as well as a link to the Apple documentation.
Feel free to download and use them in your apps! I'd love to see screenshots of anywhere they're in use. If you can think of any icons or symbols that'd be good to add to the set, please let me know.
The only reward for my art that I look for is attribution (Creative Commons license in this case) and that people who find it useful or just cool spread the word by telling friends, blogging, linking, twittering, etc.
Outstanding contribution. Tons-o-thanks! I'll be sure to spread the word.
Hey guys, just a heads up -- I've published some free (creative commons licensed) iPhone toolbar and tab bar icons at glyphish.com. I also included guidelines on how they work as well as a link to the Apple documentation.
Feel free to download and use them in your apps! I'd love to see screenshots of anywhere they're in use. If you can think of any icons or symbols that'd be good to add to the set, please let me know.
Thanks a great lot, mate!
I bookmarked your site, will let you know how my app evolve
Hey guys, just a heads up -- I've published some free (creative commons licensed) iPhone toolbar and tab bar icons at glyphish.com. I also included guidelines on how they work as well as a link to the Apple documentation.
Feel free to download and use them in your apps! I'd love to see screenshots of anywhere they're in use. If you can think of any icons or symbols that'd be good to add to the set, please let me know.
Hey folks. We've posted some free to use for whatever you want iphone tab bar icons at our company blog: phodder.com/blog/ We're posting 2 new ones every Tuesday, so let us know what you want to see.
just found, as far as i know, the largest collection of 300+ tab bar icons at iconsberlin. it seems, one can request an icon to be added to the collection for free. anyone tried that out?
hi guys,
i've found a nice collection of tab bar icons on iconsberlin.com .they offer a set of more than 300 different icons. a wide range of icons for anyone who develops apps.
Whilst probably not as convenient as the pre-authored icons above, if it helps anyone authoring tab bar icons I've even written a little plugin (download here half way down the page Forum plugin view) that will convert your RGB image into an intensity map and move it into the required alpha channel for the icon in the excellent Paint.NET free app(Download).
Hope it helps,
Stu
Hey guys, just a heads up -- I've published some free (creative commons licensed) iPhone toolbar and tab bar icons at glyphish.com. I also included guidelines on how they work as well as a link to the Apple documentation.
Feel free to download and use them in your apps! I'd love to see screenshots of anywhere they're in use. If you can think of any icons or symbols that'd be good to add to the set, please let me know.
Check out these iPhone 4 Application Tab Bar Icons that have the @2x retina size - there are 350 icons in the set which also include Android and WP7 sizes.
The icons come in PNG format and EPS vector format so they can be resized for anything, including the web or print.
How do I handle the resolutions difference between retina and the regular iPhone screen? My icon gets get cut off on a pre iPhone 4 device (if I use a retina-ready icon). If I use a smaller icon the iPhone 4 will blow up my icon causing in a worse quality.
How do we handle with this?
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So I found, in a sample app (provided by Apple) that they included every file twice. (Icon-Small.png and Icon-Small@2x.png). Is that it? You just include every file twice and the iPhone4 knows to take the @2x file instead of the 'regular' files?
How do I handle the resolutions difference between retina and the regular iPhone screen? My icon gets get cut off on a pre iPhone 4 device (if I use a retina-ready icon). If I use a smaller icon the iPhone 4 will blow up my icon causing in a worse quality.
How do we handle with this?
edit:
So I found, in a sample app (provided by Apple) that they included every file twice. (Icon-Small.png and Icon-Small@2x.png). Is that it? You just include every file twice and the iPhone4 knows to take the @2x file instead of the 'regular' files?
Hey guys, just a heads up -- I've published some free (creative commons licensed) iPhone toolbar and tab bar icons at glyphish.com. I also included guidelines on how they work as well as a link to the Apple documentation.
Feel free to download and use them in your apps! I'd love to see screenshots of anywhere they're in use. If you can think of any icons or symbols that'd be good to add to the set, please let me know.
I was struggling for hours trying to get my greyscale icons to work for a tutorial challenge where I had to add an extra view to a tab bar. I couldn't get the icon to display. Thanks for your help on this one glyphish. I loaded down your free icons and it worked immediately. It made my morning.
What do you have to name it? I'm kind of new to this
It is one thing to see the resources (eg icons) in the same folder at OSX level. You still have to drag them in the Resources folder of Xcode project. Even after that you may have to reopen the Nib file if it was already open.
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Thanks. I thought about 30 px was right. But when I save the image and add it to my project and set it as the tab bar icon all I get is a blue gradient square. I have tried saving as png, tiff and jpeg but I still get this blue square instead of my image. Any ideas?
The Tab Bar uses the black/clear channels to make a mask of the image. Anything non-clear will show up as the image on the tab bar. Use gradients from black to clear to create pretty icons that fit into the 30x30 frame. blurring the edges creates crisper looking images with less pixelation. your images are showing up as boxes because you have an unclear background in your image. Also, though it's a personal preference, I found that ios uses bmp very nicely with any sort of image manipulation and display. it support clear backgrounds, is rather compact in size and most of what cocoa uses is bmp anyways...
The Tab Bar uses the black/clear channels to make a mask of the image. Anything non-clear will show up as the image on the tab bar. Use gradients from black to clear to create pretty icons that fit into the 30x30 frame. blurring the edges creates crisper looking images with less pixelation. your images are showing up as boxes because you have an unclear background in your image. Also, though it's a personal preference, I found that ios uses bmp very nicely with any sort of image manipulation and display. it support clear backgrounds, is rather compact in size and most of what cocoa uses is bmp anyways...
Try to find "High Resolution App Tab Bar Icons" with google. This set has 1136 icons for iOS
Tab Bar icons collection
270 Toolbar Icons for iPhone 4 Retina Display
Linear Mode
