Most mobile apps are missing that extra bit of design detail that could help them stand out from the App Store crowd. While there is no replacement for having a talented designer polish your app’s pixels for hours on end, the purpose of this series is to teach those with limited Photoshop experience and a low-to-no budget how to make apps that shine!
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Well, if you’ve read the first five articles in this series, you may be asking yourself: “How does all of this relate to Mobile Design?” The purpose of this introductory series is for you to add some new tools and ideas to your mobile design arsenal. This article is no different. Colors can make your application look professional and beautiful, but on the flip side, they can also make it look like your app was made by my five-year-old nephew.
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Now that we have been introduced Photoshop and a couple of the most essential tools, let’s put the first four tutorials in this series to good use and make a nice background for a mobile application. Designing app backgrounds differs from designing desktop backgrounds in at least one fundamental way: you have to strip out all unnecessary clutter and only provide the user with what is absolutely necessary. Read on to learn more!
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Android devices come in many shapes and sizes. Designing applications to run flawlessly, regardless of the device characteristics, is as much an art as a science. Tablet development involves some special considerations. Designing for tablets is not the same as designing for phones, but there are many similarities. In this tutorial, learn development techniques for designing applications that work well on tablets, many of which can be applied to other types of devices as well.
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Table layouts can be used for displaying tabular data or neatly aligning screen contents in a way similar to an HTML table on a web page. Learn how to create them with layout XML files and through code.
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You’ve read about how relative layouts work in Android. Test your new skills with these progressive challenges involving relative layout controls and solidify your knowledge of the Java programming language and Android user interface design and development.
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In this article we will go through some very basic design topics for the Android platform. Aside from the documentation provided by Google, there are very few resources that provide a high-level view of designing Android mobile apps. This article will make it easy to understand the nuances of Android user interface design.
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Understanding layouts is important for good Android application design. In this tutorial, you learn all about linear layouts, which organize user interface controls, or widgets, vertically or horizontally on the screen. When used correctly, linear layouts can be the fundamental layout upon which many interesting Android application user interfaces can be designed.
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This quick tip shows you the steps to create a simple Button or ImageButton control in your Android application. First, you learn how to add button controls to your layout files. Next, you learn how to handle button clicks from the user in two different ways. Finally, we discuss some of the other features available to button controls in Android.
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Understanding layouts is important for good Android application design. In this tutorial, we provide an overview of how layouts fit into the Android application architecture. We also explore some of the specific layout controls available for organizing application screen content in a variety of interesting ways.
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