Introduction

Audience for This Book

This book is intended primarily for Android developers who want to better understand user interfaces (UI) in Android. To focus on the important topics of Android UI design, this book makes the assumption that you already have a basic understanding of Android, so if you haven’t made a “Hello, World” Android app or set up your computer for development, you should do so before reading this book (the Android developer site is a good place to start: http://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/index.html).

Most developers have limited or no design experience, so this book makes no assumptions that you understand design. Whenever a design topic is important, such as choosing colors, this book will walk ...

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