Android Design Patterns: Interaction Design Solutions for Developers

  • 5h 33m
  • Greg Nudelman
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2013

Master the challenges of Android user interface development with these sample patterns

With Android 4, Google brings the full power of its Android OS to both smartphone and tablet computing. Designing effective user interfaces that work on multiple Android devices is extremely challenging. This book provides more than 75 patterns that you can use to create versatile user interfaces for both smartphones and tablets, saving countless hours of development time. Patterns cover the most common and yet difficult types of user interactions, and each is supported with richly illustrated, step-by-step instructions.

  • Includes sample patterns for welcome and home screens, searches, sorting and filtering, data entry, navigation, images and thumbnails, interacting with the environment and networks, and more
  • Features tablet-specific patterns and patterns for avoiding results you don't want
  • Illustrated, step-by-step instructions describe what the pattern is, how it works, when and why to use it, and related patterns and anti-patterns

Android Design Patterns: Interaction Design Solutions for Developers provides extremely useful tools for developers who want to take advantage of the booming Android app development market.

About the Author

Greg Nudelman is a Mobile Experience Strategist and CEO of DesignCaffeine, Inc. For more than 15 years he has helped clients such as eBay, WebEx, Wells Fargo, PayPal, Safeway, Cisco, IBM, Associated Press, and Groupon amass millions of satisfied customers. Greg is an internationally acclaimed design workshop leader who authored Designing Search: UX Strategies for eCommerce Success (Wiley, 2011) and has contributed to a half-dozen UX design books.

In this Book

  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Design for Android—A Case Study
  • What Makes Android Different
  • Android Fragmentation
  • Mobile Design Process
  • Welcome Experience
  • Home Screen
  • Search
  • Sorting and Filtering
  • Avoiding Missing and Undesirable Results
  • Data Entry
  • Forms
  • Mobile Banking
  • Navigation
  • Tablet Patterns
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