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Arduino Android Blueprints

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Arduino Android Blueprints

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Arduino Android Blueprints
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Enhancing the user interface


The current user interface requires further enhancements to make it user friendly. One can easily notice that the sensor data output needs to be enlarged and centered and the buttons can definitely be more attractive. Also, we want to make sure that our Weather Station app stands out from the user's current list of apps, so our app would definitely benefit from a change in the icon.

We will work on the following main tasks:

  • Creating and adding our very own Android app icon

  • Centering and enlarging the data output text

  • Modifying the buttons and adding some color to our text

Creating and adding our very own app icon

One of our very first steps to enhance the user experience is to have our very own icon.

First, we will start off by downloading the image asset. This is available publicly at http://bit.ly/chapter3-iclauncher.

You should navigate using the project tree, followed by a right-click on app, as shown in the following screenshot:

After you right-click on app, create...