Book Image

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

Optimizing your code with ProGuard


The ProGuard tool shrinks and optimizes your code by removing unused code and renaming classes, fields, and methods with semantically obscure names. The end result is a smaller APK that's more difficult to reverse engineer, something that's particularly important if your app has access to sensitive information.

ProGuard runs automatically when you build your app in release mode. To build a release version of your app, you need to enable the minifyEnabled property in your project's module-level build.gradle file and make sure buildTypes is set to release. For example:

android {   ...  buildTypes { 
 
 //The buildTypes element controls whether your app is built in debug or release mode// 
        release { 
 
//In this example, we're building a release version of our app so we can run ProGuard. If your build.gradle file contains the debug attribute, then make sure you remove it so it doesn't prevent ProGuard from running//  
 ...