The thing is this, in Android 1.5 and 1.6 we had the Icon Design Guidelines. In this guide there are specifications for application icons. Every application should conform to this. However, in recent Android versions (2.0 and 2.1) icons have changed from the old to this new flat 2D style. Every icon in Nexus One has this style, so not even Google is conforming to the guideline. To see the differences between high and low density icons see this image and compare Evernote icon with the rest.
I've been able to use different icons by using two directories with different icons: drawables-hdpi/icon.png
and drawables/icon.png
, BUT not every Android 2.x is going to be HDPI and not every 1.x Android device is going to be low pixel density. So the question is:
Should I deploy different icons for different Android platform version within my apk file? and if I should, How do I do it?