There are over 30,000 applications for Android that have been downloaded over
a million times already. What makes yours any different? Building a compelling
user-interface that people understand and enjoy is vital for the survival of
a new application in an environment where look and feel may be the only thing
between a user purchasing your application; or deleting it forever.
Working through examples, code-snippets, and screenshots this book introduces
the fundamentals of good user-interface design from a developer's point of
view. This book will put you above the rest by showing you how to build
striking user interfaces to grasp your app users' attention enough to make
them shell out some bucks to buy your application.
The Android User Interface Development Beginner's Guide will tell you
everything you need to know to style your applications from bottom up. Given
the importance of user-interface design on a touch-screen device, this book
aims to equip its reader with the knowledge required to build killer Android
applications. Starting simply, and keeping things easy, this book will take
you on a step-by-step journey to understanding the principals of good user-
interface design, and how to implement the best user interfaces on an Android
mobile device. It aims at building design understanding on a chapter-by-
chapter basis, while introducing platform knowledge through examples.
A practical definitive guide for developers who want to design and develop
attractive Android user-interfaces
What you will learn from this book :
Design user-friendly interfaces that support quick and easy access to information
Explore and implement multiple layouts in Android to design user interfaces for
the different screen sizes and densities
Ensure a consistent user-interface experience and improve your application
performance by reusing your application components
Design easy-on-the-eye themes for your Android applications
Display and select complex data structures from applications such as an address-
book or calendar application by using Android widgets
Entertain your application users by animating visual queues of what the application
is currently doing, and what effect their actions are having
Customize the built-in classes in Android to enhance the user interface by creating
tabs and galleries
Leverage Android's resource loading system
Learn how best to present your user with information; or capture information from
them
Work through examples featuring all major Android widgets, and some of the more
unusual components
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