I want to make a set of icons for android phones. The guide has a set of recommendations for the denstiy and sizes link to recommendations. What is an efficient manner to go about producing these exports from Adobe Illustrator?
Considerations are that I would have to save-export to png and then change the preferences each time. Is it possible to open of artboards with different configurations? Or have tabbed template images where I can copy images from one tab to the other in a direction of less detail?
Answer
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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