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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

Timing your code


Don't wait for your app to start throwing errors before you go looking for performance-related problems. Your app could be slowly leaking memory, allocating too many objects, or struggling under the weight of a complex view hierarchy. None of these will necessarily throw an error, but they'll definitely have a negative impact on your app's performance.

If you're going to create a high-performance app, you need to go looking for problems.

Timing your code is a powerful way of seeing exactly what's going on in your app, including any sections of code that are running slower or longer than others. The first Android SDK tool we're going to look at lets you do just that.

TraceView is a graphical viewer that can profile any Android app running on your device.

TraceView, like most of the tools we're going to cover in this chapter, can only measure a running application. So the first step is to install the app you want to test on your Android device, and then attach that device to...