Android User Interface Design

Book Description

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

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!

Table of Contents

Part I The Basics of Android User Interface
Chapter 1 Android UI Overview
Chapter 2 Understanding Views—The UI Building Blocks
Chapter 3 Creating Full Layouts with View Groups and Fragments
Chapter 4 Adding App Graphics and Resources

Part II The Full Design and Development Process
Chapter 5 Starting a New App
Chapter 6 Developing the App Foundation
Chapter 7 Finalizing the Design
Chapter 8 Applying the Design
Chapter 9 Further Improving the App

Part III Advanced Topics for Android User Interfaces
Chapter 10 How to Handle Common Components
Chapter 11 Combining Views for Custom Components
Chapter 12 Developing Fully Custom Views
Chapter 13 Working with the Canvas and Advanced Drawing

Part IV Helpful Guides and Reference
A Google Play Assets
B Amazon Appstore Assets
C Common Task Reference

中文：

书名：Android用户界面设计

Android用户界面设计：将想法和草图转化为设计精美的应用程序

构建极具吸引力、功能强大且直观的Android应用程序

在今天拥挤的Android市场中，区分你的应用程序比以往任何时候都更加重要。伟大的设计是做到这一点的最佳方式。现在，领先的安卓应用程序设计专家伊恩·G·克利夫顿向你展示了如何让你的应用程序活跃起来，以及如何提供用户想要、喜欢和购买的应用程序！

这本书反映了Android 4.2 SDK，既是整个设计和实现过程的教程，也是每个Android开发项目所依赖的方便参考。

克利夫顿展示了如何创建有效的设计，将它们组织成Android组件，并优雅地从创意到线框，再到Comp，再到成品应用。您将学习如何将自己的声音、个性和风格应用到您的应用程序设计中；如何利用高级绘图技术，如PorterDuff合成；如何在各种Android设备上测试设计；以及更多其他内容。

Android用户界面设计 详细说明设计和开发过程的每个步骤，并包含大量可下载的示例代码，包括完整的成品应用程序。

• 了解Android如何发展以支持出色的应用程序设计
• 将应用程序设计与开发相结合，从创意到部署
• 了解视图，这是Android用户界面的构建块
• 充分利用线框和原型
• 构建高效布局并集成流畅的动画
• 通过自动更新ListView使应用程序更有用
• Combine views into custom components
• Use image compositing and other advanced techniques
• 使用画布和高级绘图
• Leverage Google Play and Amazon Appstore assets

本指南一步一个脚印地帮助您弥合Android开发人员和设计师之间的差距，这样您就可以与同事合作创建世界级的应用程序设计，也可以自己动手！

目录表

Part I The Basics of Android User Interface
第1章Android用户界面概述
第2章了解视图–用户界面构建块
Chapter 3 Creating Full Layouts with View Groups and Fragments
Chapter 4 Adding App Graphics and Resources

Part II The Full Design and Development Process
Chapter 5 Starting a New App
第6章开发App Foundation
第七章完成设计
Chapter 8 Applying the Design
第9章进一步完善应用程序

第三部分Android用户界面的高级主题
第10章如何处理公共组件
Chapter 11 Combining Views for Custom Components
第12章开发完全定制的视图
第13章使用画布和高级绘图

第四部分有用的指南和参考资料
A Google Play资产
B Amazon Appstore Assets
C常见任务参考