Smashing Android UI: Responsive Android UI and Design Patterns for Phones and Tablets
eBook Details:
- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: WOW! eBook; 1st edition (October 15, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1118387287
- ISBN-13: 978-1118387283
eBook Description:
Smashing Android UI: Responsive Android UI and Design Patterns for Phones and Tablets
- Teaches practical techniques for developing and designing applications that work on all Android phones and tablets
- Helps developers who have Android experience, but not necessarily design experience, as well as designers who want to follow Android design best practices and patterns
- Starts with how to use simple components and then moves on to building scalable layouts
- Covers adaptive layouts and fragments, responsive design, and how to design user interfaces using Android UI design patterns
If you’re developing applications for Android smartphones and tablets, you know it isn’t enough just to create the app. The application has to be intuitive, well laid out, and easy to use. Smashing Android UI: Responsive Android UI and Design Patterns for Phones and Tablets shows you just how to do that. Starting with basic components, this practical, full-color book shows you how to create scalable layouts, make use of adaptive layouts and fragments, follow Android design best practices, and design sleek, intuitive user interfaces using Android UI design patterns. Smashing Android UI: Responsive Android UI and Design Patterns for Phones and Tablets helps you create apps for the hottest thing in technology Android devices!
Designers and developers, create smashing apps for Android devices
If you’re developing applications for Android smartphones and tablets, you know it isn’t enough just to create the app. The application has to be intuitive, well laid out, and easy to use. Smashing Android UI: Responsive Android UI and Design Patterns for Phones and Tablets shows you just how to do that. Starting with basic components, this practical, full-color book shows you how to create scalable layouts, make use of adaptive layouts and fragments, follow Android design best practices, and design sleek, intuitive user interfaces using Android UI design patterns.
One of the newest guides in the terrific Smashing Magazine book series, this book takes you beyond the basics with expert techniques and innovative ideas. Learn smart solutions that will help you avoid pitfalls while building apps that can scale up to a multitude of possible Android device-and-browser combinations.
- Teaches practical techniques for developing and designing applications that work on all Android phones and tablets
- Helps developers who have Android experience, but not necessarily design experience, as well as designers who want to follow Android design best practices and patterns
- Starts with how to use simple components and then moves on to building scalable layouts
- Covers adaptive layouts and fragments, responsive design, and how to design user interfaces using Android UI design patterns
Smashing Android UI: Responsive Android UI and Design Patterns for Phones and Tablets helps you create apps for the hottest thing in technology Android devices!
From the Back Cover
BUILD KILLER APPS FOR ANDROID SMARTPHONES AND TABLETS THAT USERS WILL LOVE TO USE
Great UI design can be the difference between an app that gathers dust on a mobile dashboard and one that really takes off. Brought to you from the experts at Smashing Magazine the worldwide go-to resource for developers and designers this book arms you with the knowledge and tools you need to integrate user-centered design into your development process and create Android apps that don’t just take off, but soar.
Professional Android developer Juhani Lehtimäki takes you beyond the basics, describing expert design techniques, tips, tricks, and workarounds. Whether you’re a developer with minimal design experience, or a practiced designer looking to expand your repertoire, Smashing Android UI: Responsive Android UI and Design Patterns for Phones and Tablets gives you what you need to:
- Get up to speed on user-centered design principles and practices
- Use Android UI design patterns to create sleek, intuitive user interfaces
- Avoid common design problems and pitfalls
- Build agile, responsive Apps that never general dialogues
- Develop Apps that are scalable for any Android device combination
- Create scalable layouts
- Use adaptive layouts and fragments
- Follow Android design best practices
A great application is more than the sum of its functions and features it’s a total user experience. Let Smashing Android UI: Responsive Android UI and Design Patterns for Phones and Tablets show you how to put the user at the center of the development process to create truly great Android apps.
Designers and developers, create smashing apps for Android devices
If you’re developing applications for Android smartphones and tablets, you know it isn’t enough just to create the app. The application has to be intuitive, well laid out, and easy to use. Smashing Android UI: Responsive Android UI and Design Patterns for Phones and Tablets shows you just how to do that. Starting with basic components, this practical, full-color book shows you how to create scalable layouts, make use of adaptive layouts and fragments, follow Android design best practices, and design sleek, intuitive user interfaces using Android UI design patterns.
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