: Exporting drawing for icon images to be used in Android for various screen sizes in a not too labourious manner? I want to make a set of icons for android phones. The guide has a set of

@Shanna688

To be honest, I would create the icons in Photoshop. You can save each icon as a layer comp, and then use file > scripts > layer comps to files.

Or, as you create them in illustrator, save them to a photoshop document, and use the same layer comp technique.

Could be an alternative solution for what you're trying to accomplish.

Good luck!

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@Turnbaugh909

The proper way to do it IMO is to use separate artboards for the different sizes. You can create a template with artboards for all the standard sizes, guides for the margins and all the shared styles you want to use.

Then simply create the icon at the highest resolution and copy it to the smaller artboards and clean them up for the lower resolutions. Alternatively, you could create the original icon for a middle resolution and then adapt it to the larger (add details, reduce stroke weight) and smaller (simplify design, increase stroke weight, increase counters...) resolutions. This part has to be manually done since you can't just use the same icon design for 36x36px as you would for 96x96px.

When you're done, just export as PNG and check the "Use Artboards" box and it will export each artboard as a separate PNG file.

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