Android User Interface Design: Turning Ideas and Sketches into Beautifully Designed Apps

Android User Interface Design: Turning Ideas and Sketches into Beautifully Designed Apps by Ian G Clifton


ISBN
9780321886736
Published
Released
01 / 07 / 2013
Binding
Paperback
Pages
400
Dimensions
177 x 228 x 19mm

Build Android apps that are stunningly attractive, functional, and intuitive

In today's crowded Android marketplace, it's more important than ever to differentiate your app. Great design is the best way to do that. Now, leading Android app design expert Ian G. Clifton shows you how to make your apps come alive and how to deliver apps that users will want, love, buy!

Reflecting the latest versions of Android, this book serves both as a tutorial for the entire design and implementation process and as a handy reference you'll rely on in every Android development project.

Clifton showing how to create effective designs, organize them into Android components, and move from idea to wireframe to comp to finished app. You'll learn how to bring your own voice, personality, and style to your app designs; how to leverage advanced drawing techniques such as PorterDuff compositing; how to test designs on diverse Android devices; and much more.

Android User Interface Design contains a hands-on case study section, plus extensive downloadable sample code, including complete finished apps.

- Learn how Android has evolved to support outstanding app design

- Integrate app design with development, from idea through deployment

- Understand Views, the building blocks of Android user interfaces

- Make the most of wireframes and prototypes

- Build efficient layouts and integrate smooth animations

- Make apps more useful with automatically updating ListViews

- Combine views into custom components

- Use image compositing and other advanced techniques

- Work with the Canvas and Advanced Drawing

- Leverage Google Play and Amazon Appstore assets
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