{"id":503,"date":"2010-11-19T11:28:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T16:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jaimerios.com\/?p=503"},"modified":"2010-11-19T11:28:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T16:28:37","slug":"what-are-the-default-icon-sizes-in-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"What are the default icon sizes in iPhone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"iPhone<\/a>For me, probably one of the first things I start to do whenever I create any application is toy around with the icons I think I’m going to use for the app.<\/p>\n

Now for the iPhone, I couldn’t easily find an article in the documentation about the specs for icons. How big are they supposed to be? What format should they be in? Where should the be stored?<\/p>\n

In the old API, Carbon, you would use a resource editor to manage these images and the icon size is right there in the program.<\/p>\n

Even in Cocoa, the icon editor program actually gave you the sizes that you are supposed to use. That’s pretty easy!<\/p>\n

But what about the iPhone OS? Couldn’t tell you.<\/p>\n

I found some examples on the web from other developers, but it bothered me that there was nothing written by Apple. But then, as I read the “iPhone Human Interface Guidelines” did I see the chapter titled, “Creating Custom Icons and Images”. Now to me, I thought this had something to do with non-default images, but to my surprise, the icon sizes I was looking for was right there:<\/p>\n