7. Designing Powerful User Interfaces
The Android platform has matured over time, especially when it comes to the user experience. We’ve already talked about many of the user interface controls you can leverage in your applications. Now we take a broader look at some of the UI features available in the Android SDK, including various kinds of action bars, styles, and themes. We also talk about the Android development team’s initiative to document a set of guidelines and best practices for Android application design.
Following Android User Interface Guidelines
When we wrote the first edition of this book several years ago, design was not the focus, although today there is a growing interest in defining a set of application design principles. As ...
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