Android User Interface Design: Turning Ideas and Sketches into Beautifully Designed Apps Author: Ian G. Clifton | Language: English | ISBN:
B00CD34XBE | Format: PDF
Android User Interface Design: Turning Ideas and Sketches into Beautifully Designed Apps Description
Build Android Apps That Are Stunningly Attractive, Functional, and IntuitiveIn today’s crowded Android marketplace, it’s more important than ever to differentiate your apps. 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, and buy!
Reflecting the Android 4.2 SDK, this book serves both as a tutorial for the entire design and implementation process and as a handy reference you’ll rely on for every Android development project.
Clifton shows how to create effective designs, organize them into Android components, and move gracefully 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 details each step of the design and development process and contains 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 by 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
One step at a time, this guide helps you bridge the gap between Android developers and designers so you can work with colleagues to create world-class app designs...or do it yourself!
- File Size: 95621 KB
- Print Length: 381 pages
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (April 15, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00CD34XBE
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #55,277 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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I'm an experienced Java developer and am familiar with UI/event-driven systems. Still, I found the learning curve on Android to be quite steep due to the inadequate documentation on the UI side of things. Sure, i've bought the usual books (Wrox, Apress, etc) but they have been very poor on teaching the UI. The Android books will tell you the basics, like how to put a static (xml-defined) image and a text box in a layout. What the books don't tell you is how to write a UI for any slightly complex real-world app. Like how to construct views dynamically, how to handle updating the views from a background thread (forbidden in Andoid!) and a hundred and one other issues that crop up when doing anything non-trivial.
This book to the rescue! I'm only a third of the way through it but am finding answers to my questions, solutions to my problems on almost every page. It is very well written and comes with just enough code examples to demo the concepts. I'm very pleased that I found this book. It is already a huge help.
By T. MCCANN
This highly-readable and engaging book was a delight, from beginning to end. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and learned a lot. Clifton's style is accessible -- even to someone like me, who's an Android fan, but not an accomplished programmer. Experienced devs and newbies alike will find this book to be a resource for years to come.
By Andrew Hickl
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