Icon Design Guidelines, Android 2.0 | Android Developers

Back when we wrote How people really use the iPhone, one of the key things that I mentioned was that a lousy icon was enough to turn someone off from trying or buying an app.

And since then, I’ve even been known to delete an app from my iPhone just because (I know, I know) the icon wasn’t quite as nice as the Apple icons.

Google has published updated icon design guidelines for the Android.  Unfortunately, if the current crop of apps in the Market is any indication, about 80% of the developers will summarily ignore the guidelines and pull out MSPaint.exe instead.  Oh, and what’s with using the Android robot in your icon?  I mean, it’s cute here and there, but after a while … sheesh!