Android User Interface Design: Turning Ideas and Sketches into Beautifully Designed Apps

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Название:Android User Interface Design: Turning Ideas and Sketches into Beautifully Designed Apps

Издательство:Wesley

Автор:Ian G. Clifton

Год:2013

Количество страниц:400

Язык:English

Формат: pdf

Размер:32 Mb

Build Android Apps That Are Stunningly Attractive, Functional, and Intuitive

In today’s crowded Android marketplace, it’s more important than ever to differentiate your apps. Great design is the best way to do that. Now, leading Android app design expert Ian G. Clifton shows you how to make your apps come alive and how to deliver apps that users will want, love, and buy!

Reflecting the Android 4.2 SDK, this book serves both as a tutorial for the entire design and implementation process and as a handy reference you’ll rely on for every Android development project.

Clifton shows how to create effective designs, organize them into Android components, and move gracefully from idea, to wireframe, to comp, to finished app. You’ll learn how to bring your own voice, personality, and style to your app designs; how to leverage advanced drawing techniques such as PorterDuff compositing; how to test designs on diverse Android devices; and much more.

Android User Interface Design details each step of the design and development process and contains extensive downloadable sample code, including complete finished apps.

Learn how Android has evolved to support outstanding app design

Integrate app design with development, from idea through deployment

Understand views, the building blocks of Android user interfaces

Make the most of wireframes and prototypes

Build efficient layouts and integrate smooth animations

Make apps more useful by automatically updating ListViews

Combine views into custom components

Use image compositing and other advanced techniques

Work with the canvas and advanced drawing

Leverage Google Play and Amazon Appstore assets

One step at a time, this guide helps you bridge the gap between Android developers and designers so you can work with colleagues to create world-class app designs...or do it yourself!