Pro Android UI [recurso electrónico

If you’re an Android application developer, chances are you’re using fixed, scrolling, swipe-able, and other cutting-edge custom UI Designs in your Android development projects. These UI Design approaches as well as other Android ViewGroup UI layout containers are the bread and butter of Pro Android User Interface (UI) design and Android User Experience (UX) design and development. Using a top down approach, Pro Android UI shows you how to design and develop the best user interface for your app, while taking into account the varying device form factors in the increasingly fragmented Android environment. Pro Android UI aims to be the ultimate reference and customization cookbook for your Android UI Design, and as such will be useful to experienced developers as well as beginners. With Android’s powerful UI layout classes, you can easily create everything from the simplest of lists to fully tricked-out user interfaces. While using these UI classes for boring, standard user interfaces can be quite simple, customizing a unique UI design can often become extremely challenging. Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Android UI Design Tools: Setting Up Your Android Development System....Pages 3-28 Android UI Layouts: Layout Containers and the ViewGroup Class....Pages 29-59 Android UI Widgets: User Interface Widgets and the View Class....Pages 61-94 Front Matter....Pages 95-95 Android UI Options Menus: OptionsMenu Class and the Action Bar....Pages 97-129 Android UI Local Menus: The ContextMenu Class and PopupMenu Class....Pages 131-152 Android UI Action Bar: Advanced Action Bar Design and ActionBar Class....Pages 153-190 Front Matter....Pages 191-191 Android UI Design Considerations: Styles, Screen Density Targets and New Media Formats....Pages 193-223 Android UI Design Concepts: Wire-framing & UI Layout Design Patterns....Pages 225-250 Android UI Layout Conventions, Differences and Approaches....Pages 251-272 Android UI Theme Design and Digital Media Concepts....Pages 273-308 Front Matter....Pages 309-309 Android’s FrameLayout Class: Using Digital Video in Your UI Design....Pages 311-348 Android’s LinearLayout Class: Horizontal and Vertical UI Design....Pages 349-385 Android’s RelativeLayout Class: UI Design Using One Layout Container....Pages 387-409 Android’s GridLayout Class: UI Design Using a Grid-based Layout....Pages 411-442 Front Matter....Pages 443-443 Android’s DrawerLayout Class: Using a UI Drawer in Your UI Design....Pages 445-472 Android’s SlidingPaneLayout Class: Using SlidingPanes in Your UI Design....Pages 473-496 Android’s ViewPager Class: Using ViewPager to Navigate Horizontally....Pages 497-516 Android’s PagerTitleStrip and PagerTabStrip: ViewPager Navigation UI....Pages 517-539 Back Matter....Pages 541-552