GUI Design for Android Apps

Book Description

GUI Design for Android Apps is the perfect—and concise—introduction for mobile app developers and designers. Through easy-to-follow tutorials, code samples, and case studies, the book shows the must-know principles for user-interface design for Android apps running on the Intel platform, including smartphones, tablets and embedded devices.

This book is jointly developed for individual learning by Intel Software College and China Shanghai JiaoTong University, and is excerpted from Android Application Development for the Intel® Platform.

What you’ll learn

• Key aspects of why UI and UX design for embedded systems is different than for desktops
• Troubleshooting UI design issues
• Understanding how key concepts such as state transition, context class, and intent work
• How to use the interface app design tools provided by Android
• Planning for complex apps (apps with multiple activities)
• Optimizing app design for touch screen input

Who this book is for

The book is primarily for app developers, software engineers and open-source programming enthusiasts, but can also be used by for training programs and Codeacademy-style programs.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. General Overview
Chapter 2. The Android-Specific GUI
Chapter 3. Designing Complex Applications
Chapter 4. Self-Drawing Graphics and Touch Screen Input

中文：

书名：GUI Design for Android Apps

Android应用程序的图形用户界面设计 是对移动应用程序开发人员和设计人员的完美且简明的介绍。通过简单易懂的教程、代码示例和案例研究，该书展示了在英特尔平台上运行的Android应用程序(包括智能手机、平板电脑和嵌入式设备)用户界面设计的必备原则。

本书由英特尔软件学院和中国上海交通大学联合开发，面向个人学习，节选自 面向英特尔®平台的安卓应用程序开发.

What you’ll learn

• 嵌入式系统的UI和UX设计为何不同于台式机的关键方面
• 排除用户界面设计问题
• 了解状态转换、上下文类和意图等关键概念的工作原理
• 如何使用Android提供的界面APP设计工具
• 规划复杂的应用程序(具有多个活动的应用程序)
• 针对触摸屏输入优化应用程序设计

这本书是为谁而写的

这本书主要面向应用程序开发人员、软件工程师和开源编程爱好者，但也可以用于培训计划和CodeAcademy风格的计划。

Table of Contents

第1章.一般概述
第2章Android特定的图形用户界面
Chapter 3. Designing Complex Applications
第4章.自绘图形和触摸屏输入