Tab icon guidelines

Question

http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design.html#tabstructure

Are we sure this page was written correctly? It states that UNSELECTED icons must be "WHITE"; and SELECTED icons must be "GRAY". This seems backwards and looks quite odd in my application.

Answer 1

This is correct for Eclair (2.0/2.1) and FroYo (2.2) Android UIs. I'm not so sure about the UIs from 1.x, though.

Sense/Motoblur might have their own standards.

Answer 2

That's very true since usually active tab background is white and inactive tabs are gray.