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Android UI Design

By : Jessica Thornsby
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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

Chapter 9. Optimizing Your UI

Your app's user interface is your most direct connection to the user, so you'll want to make sure it's perfect.

Up until now we've concentrated on creating a beautifully designed user interface that's packed with useful features—but this is only half the battle. If your app is going to rack up those 5-star Google Play reviews, you'll need to create a UI that's quick to render, responsive, and generally delivers an all-around great user experience.

Performance is crucial to creating a successful UI, and a successful app in general. If your app is laggy, prone to crashing, gobbles up data and memory, or drains the user's battery, then no one is going to want to use it, no matter how good your UI looks!

In this chapter, I'm going to show you how to hunt out all the most common performance problems that may be impacting your app. Since you'll want to fix any problems you do encounter, along the way I'll also be touching on some of the reasons why these problems occur...