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First of all, both Windows and Mac OS X encapsulates their icons in a container format, meaning that instead of multiple images with different sizes, the file carries images of different resolutions, and the operating system decides on when to use which.
Windows uses the .ico format. Pre-Vista, the icons should range from 16x16 to at most 48x48 big and are ...
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Sadly, there isn't a straighter native way. There has been some threads on the topic on Adobe forums and even an Adobe employee recommends exporting the image in PDF and opening it in Photoshop — though it is kind of same as exporting it to a EPS and opening it in Illustrator.
One other thread comes to the same conclusion, but someone does indeed ...
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This answer only deals with iOS and Android, Blackberry exceeds my knowledge
Resolution
In iOS you have three screen resolutions to consider
480*320 (iPhone3)
960*640 (iPhone4)
1024*768 (iPad)
In Android there are 4 resolutions, to cover at least:
xlarge for screens that are at least 960dp x 720dp
large for screens that are at least 640dp x 480dp
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IcoFX is a free package for creating and editing icons. It works very well in Windows and can also save to 'Macintosh' format; so I'm not sure how well it would work for OS X (I'm not a Mac user). I've been using it with all my Windows stuff for a couple of years now, and have not found it lacking any important features.
EDIT: As pointed out in the ...
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We need more information to fully understand what you are designing, but if I were to assume you are designing web sites, then yes, you can design for any device.
That's pretty much my day job...design and develop a mobile web application that supports iOS, Android, BlackBerry and (groan) Symbian.
In terms of visual design, each OS has it's own native ...
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If your framework just calls the native UI-drawing methods for each element, then you'll automatically get the native elements, of course, and you won't be bundling any graphics into your own code, so there's nothing to license.
If you want to copy the UI elements directly into your project's files, that would require a license.
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