Sunday, November 13, 2011

Metro Shaded Dock Icon Packs

Here's a load of great metro icon docks that go well with Metro Shaded theme.

Set No1 is MetroDroid-Black made by XDA user Weudel. Full credit to him for this awesome set (Weudel On (Weudel) / CC BY-SA 3.0).
If you download from his site, you'll get high-res 256x256 png files, that although seem like better, they looked kind weird on my phone, so I experimented and found out that smaller resolution versions, say 60x60, 48x48 actually look better.
It has something to do with android system resizing images. Anyways, to save you the hassle with resizing, you can grab a fitted set that should look good on your phone out of the box. If your phone has 3.2 inch screen size, pick mdpi, if bigger, pick hdpi.
MetroDroid-Black_mdpi
MetroDroid-Black_hdpi
Remember, as these are black icons, you might encounter a gallery app bug - follow the hint from this post to circumvent it.

Set No2 is the official windows phone 7 icon set, black version, extended a little bit (added two types of app list icon, chrome, firefox). Pick - 48x48 for mdpi or 60x60 for hdpi.

Set No3 is an uber-awesome huge pack made by deviantArt user Yankoa. The black part of the set is 209 icons (there's also white and blue, total 627 files), 256x256 png. Free to download. The catch - due to author's rights, can't post a modified version, but you could easily resize it yourself using a program like xnview. It has batch processing capabilities (ekhm), so you could find it useful.

Set No4 - you could also checkout GTX Metro icon pack. It's 186 black metro icons, freely available to download at xda-developers forums. Credits the original creator, Cendaryn, for creating these icons, and to the iridium21 for making a black version.

Metro Lucid Dock Icon Packs

This is a placeholder, the post with links to icon packs is arriving shortly. Expect it in 8 hours.