Appmedia

A node module to automate the generation of the ridiculously big number of image assets to cover all the supported resolutions...

Install

Using NPM:

npm install appmedia

The image manipulation is done using ImageMagick, which should be already installed. For Mac OSX users that's as simple as:

brew install imagemagick

Usage

Create a build.js with the following:

var appmedia = require("appmedia");

appmedia.icon("path/to/source/icon");

appmedia.splash("path/to/source/image");

Both icon and splash will output the new image assets in a folder "./img", relative to the location of the source image.

Note that it's best if the source images have a significantly better resolution than the copies produced - ex: source icon ~2k, source splash ~4k.

Output sizes

The image sizes generated are an aggregated set after researching into the official documentation of device manufacturers. Although only a subset of these assets are used by any given device, we must generate all of them to cover different cases.

Icons

These are square images (in pixels):

16, 30, 32, 36, 48, 57, 60, 62, 64, 72, 76, 87, 96, 114, 120, 128, 144, 152, 171, 180, 512, 1024

Splash screens

These are the loading screens, and are tightly tied to the resolution of the screen:

200x320
250x250
320x480
480x320
480x800
480x854
540x960
600x800
600x1024
620x300
640x960
640x1136
720x720
720x1280
750x1334
768x1004
768x1024
768x1280
800x1280
868x420
960x640
1080x1920
1024x600
1024x768
1116x540
1136x640
1200x1920
1242x2208
1280x800
1366x720
1536x2008
1536x2048
1920x1080
2048x1496
2048x1536
2208x1242
2560x1600

Roadmap

• Override default options using set(): appmedia.set({ output : "./assets/img" })
• Create config files for Phonegap & Firefox OS: appmedia.render()

Trivia

• Inspired by web2splash

• Splash screen sizes were partially calculated using Screensiz.es

Credits

Initiated by Makis Tracend

Splash photo in the examples by Sandra S.

Distributed through Makesites.org

License

Released under the MIT license