Android UI Design

Book Description

Key Features

• Take an initial idea for an Android app and develop it into a detailed plan, supported by sketches and wireframes
• Provide a better experience for your users by following best practices and the new material design principles
• Work more efficiently and save time by testing your ideas at an early stage by building a prototype

Book Description

Great design is one of the key drivers in the adoption of new applications, yet unfortunately design considerations are often neglected in the face of “will it work,” “can we make it quicker,” or “can we get more people using it”?

This book seeks to redress this balance by showing you how to get your PM to start treating the design phase of your project seriously. This book is focused entirely on the development of UI features, and you’ll be able to practically implementing the design practices that we extol throughout the book.

Starting by briefly outlining some of the factors you need to keep in mind when building a UI, you’ll learn the concepts of Android User Interface from scratch. We then move on to formulate a plan on how to implement these concepts in various applications. We will deep dive into how UI features are implemented in real-world applications where UIs are complex and dynamic.

This book offers near complete coverage of UI-specific content including, views, fragments, the wireframing process, and how to add in splash screens-everything you need to make professional standard UIs for modern applications. It will then cover material design and show you how to implement Google’s design aesthetic in a practical manner. Finally, it ensures the best possible user experience by analyzing the UI using various tools, and then addressing any problems they uncover.

By the end of the book, you’ll be able to leverage the concepts of Android User Interface in your applications in order to attract new customers.

What you will learn

• Develop a user interface that adheres to all the core material design principles
• Transform your initial app idea into a concrete and detailed plan
• Add Views, ViewGroups, layouts, and common UI components to your own Android projects
• Use fragments and various strategies to gather user input
• Create a new Android Studio project and develop it into a prototype
• Identify and solve problems with your app’s UI to deliver a better user experience

About the Author

Jessica Thornsby studied poetry, prose, and script writing at Bolton University before discovering the world of open source and technical writing, and has never looked back since. Today, she is a technical writer and full-time Android enthusiast residing in sunny Sheffield, England.

She enjoys writing about rooting and flashing mobile devices, Java, Eclipse, and all things Android and Google. When not wordsmithing about technology and obsessing about the latest Android developments, she keeps a blog about her local food scene, and writes about looking after exotic pets. On the rare occasions that she’s dragged away from her computer, she enjoys beer gardens, curry houses, the Great British seaside, scary movies, and spending lots of time with her house rabbits and chinchillas.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introducing the Android UI
Chapter 2. What Goes into an Effective UI?
Chapter 3. Expanding your UI – Fragments, Resources, and Gathering User Input
Chapter 4. Getting Started with Material Design
Chapter 5. Turning Your Bright Idea into a Detailed Sketch
Chapter 6. Turning Your Sketches into Wireframes
Chapter 7. Building a Prototype
Chapter 8. Reaching a Wider Audience – Supporting Multiple Devices
Chapter 9. Optimizing Your UI
Chapter 10. Best Practices and Securing Your Application

中文：

书名：Android用户界面设计

主要特点

• 对Android应用程序进行初步构想，并将其开发成详细的计划，并提供草图和线框图作为支持
• 遵循最佳实践和新材料设计原则，为您的用户提供更好的体验
• 通过构建原型在早期阶段测试您的想法，从而提高工作效率并节省时间

图书描述

伟大的设计是采用新应用程序的关键驱动力之一，但不幸的是，面对这样的问题，设计方面的考虑往往被忽视。我们能让它更快吗？我们能让更多的人使用它吗？

这本书试图通过向你展示如何让你的项目经理开始认真对待项目的设计阶段来纠正这种平衡。这本书完全专注于用户界面功能的开发，你将能够实际地实现我们在整本书中所推崇的设计实践。

从简要概述在构建用户界面时需要记住的一些因素开始，您将从头开始学习Android用户界面的概念。然后，我们将制定一个计划，说明如何在各种应用中实现这些概念。我们将深入探讨如何在用户界面复杂且动态的真实应用程序中实现用户界面功能。

本书几乎涵盖了特定于用户界面的内容，包括视图、片段、线框生成过程以及如何添加闪屏–这些都是为现代应用程序制作专业标准用户界面所需的内容。然后，它将涵盖材料设计，并向您展示如何以实用的方式实现谷歌的设计美学。最后，它通过使用各种工具分析用户界面，然后解决它们发现的任何问题来确保最佳的用户体验。

到本书结束时，您将能够在您的应用程序中利用Android用户界面的概念来吸引新客户。

What you will learn

• 开发符合所有核心材料设计原则的用户界面
• 将您最初的应用程序想法转化为具体而详细的计划
• 将视图、视图组、布局和通用用户界面组件添加到您自己的Android项目中
• 使用片段和各种策略收集用户输入
• 创建一个新的Android Studio项目并将其开发为原型
• 找出并解决应用程序的用户界面问题，以提供更好的用户体验

About the Author

Jessica Thornsby 在博尔顿大学学习诗歌、散文和剧本写作后，发现了开源和技术写作的世界，此后再也没有回头看过。如今，她是一名技术作家，也是一名全职Android发烧友，居住在英国阳光明媚的谢菲尔德。

她喜欢写关于扎根和闪现移动设备、Java、Eclipse以及所有Android和Google的东西的文章。当她不谈论技术，痴迷于Android的最新发展时，她会写一篇关于她当地美食场景的博客，并写下照顾异国情调的宠物。在极少数情况下，她被从电脑前拖走，她喜欢啤酒花园、咖喱小屋、英国大海边、恐怖电影，还会花很多时间和她家的兔子和龙舌兰呆在一起。

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introducing the Android UI
Chapter 2. What Goes into an Effective UI?
第3章.展开您的UI-片段、资源和收集用户输入
Chapter 4. Getting Started with Material Design
第五章：把你的好点子变成一张详细的草图
Chapter 6. Turning Your Sketches into Wireframes
Chapter 7. Building a Prototype
Chapter 8. Reaching a Wider Audience – Supporting Multiple Devices
Chapter 9. Optimizing Your UI
第10章.最佳实践和保护应用程序