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Android UI Design

By : Jessica Thornsby
Book Image

Android UI Design

By: Jessica Thornsby

Overview of this book

<p>Great design is one of the key drivers in the adoption of new applications, yet unfortunately design considerations are often neglected in the face of “will it work,” “can we make it quicker,” or “can we get more people using it”?</p> <p>This book seeks to redress this balance by showing you how to get your PM to start treating the design phase of your project seriously. This book is focused entirely on the development of UI features, and you’ll be able to practically implementing the design practices that we extol throughout the book.</p> <p>Starting by briefly outlining some of the factors you need to keep in mind when building a UI, you’ll learn the concepts of Android User Interface from scratch. We then move on to formulate a plan on how to implement these concepts in various applications. We will deep dive into how UI features are implemented in real-world applications where UIs are complex and dynamic.</p> <p>This book offers near complete coverage of UI-specific content including, views, fragments, the wireframing process, and how to add in splash screens—everything you need to make professional standard UIs for modern applications. It will then cover material design and show you how to implement Google's design aesthetic in a practical manner. Finally, it ensures the best possible user experience by analyzing the UI using various tools, and then addressing any problems they uncover.</p> <p>By the end of the book, you’ll be able to leverage the concepts of Android User Interface in your applications in order to attract new customers.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Android UI Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

The multi-window support in Android N


Beginning with Android N, the Android operating system supports multi-window natively on both tablets and smartphones.

This new multi-window mode gives users the option to display more than one app at a time in a split-screen environment, either side-by-side or arranged one above the other. The user can resize these split-screen apps by dragging the dividing line that separates them, making one app larger and the other one smaller.

Giving users the ability to view multiple apps simultaneously is good news for productivity, paving the way for multi-app multitasking, such as bringing up a restaurant's address in Google Chrome and then typing the address directly into Google Maps, or replying to an incoming SMS without having to abandon the video you were watching on YouTube.

Another major benefit of the multi-window support is that users can drag data from one activity and drop it into another activity directly, whenever these activities are sharing the same...