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Axure RP Prototyping Cookbook

By : John Henry Krahenbuhl
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Axure RP Prototyping Cookbook

By: John Henry Krahenbuhl

Overview of this book

<p>Axure has quickly become one of the leading tools for rapid prototyping in use today. Driving Axure’s popularity and wide spread adoption is the ability to iteratively develop interactive HTML prototypes of websites and applications. With the AxShare cloud-based service, prototypes are easily shared amongst clients and team members. Prototypes can even be viewed on Android, iPhone, and iPad, appearing like a native application.</p> <p>This guide provides fast, practical, step-by-step recipes to create your own custom prototypes for mobile and desktop. You can now easily create your mobile-first designs as well as responsive and adaptive web design interactions. Using real-world examples developed from today’s hottest technological trends, you can take your skills to the next level!</p> <p>This book takes you through the latest methods to create Adaptive Web Layouts (AWD) with Axure RP 7 Pro, and create widgets for Responsive Web Layouts (RWD). Prototyping for mobiles will now be easier as you will be able to include jQuery Mobile into your Axure Prototypes. You will learn to connect to Social Media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Pinterest and create ecommerce order checkout flows to make your prototypes come to life. With this book and Axure RP Pro, you will witness increased productivity in your team by leveraging Axure Team Projects.</p> <p>You will see how to create custom templates for specifications to impress your clients, create Masters and build your own custom Widget libraries. You will learn to use AxShare to quickly share password protected prototypes with clients and teammates, and explore integrate Axure Prototypes with external JavaScript Libraries.</p> <p>Finally, you will be able to setup Android and iPad/iPhone emulators to quickly view your prototypes and run them native on Android, iOS and Windows 8.1 devices. By applying the recipes in "Axure RP Prototyping Cookbook", your prototypes on your iPhone, iPad, Android device, or browser will have never looked better!</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Axure RP Prototyping Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Running your prototype natively on Android devices


You can run any Axure prototype from a local file, USB storage, or network drive on Android devices. In this recipe, you will learn how to run your prototype natively on an Android device.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need to have a previously created Axure RP prototype and an Android device.

Note

Since Android is an open source platform, it is much easier to access local files on an Android device. In comparison, Apple's iOS platform typically restricts local file access unless provided through an application.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to run you prototype natively on an Android device:

  1. Copy the prototype directory, including all files and folders, to your Android device.

  2. Open the browser on your Android device.

  3. In the browser's URL field, enter file:/// and the path to your HTML file. This will open the local HTML file and launch the prototype. For example, to open the home.html file stored on your SD card...