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Pro Android UI

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Wallace Jackson
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  • 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.

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Introduction to the Core Classes for Android UI Design: Development Tools, Layout Containers and Widgets

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Android UI Design Tools: Setting Up Your Android Development System

      • Wallace Jackson
      Pages 3-28

    3. Android UI Layouts: Layout Containers and the ViewGroup Class

      • Wallace Jackson
      Pages 29-59

    4. Android UI Widgets: User Interface Widgets and the View Class

      • Wallace Jackson
      Pages 61-94

  3. Introduction to the Android Menu Classes for UI Design: OptionsMenu, ContextMenu, PopupMenu and ActionBar

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Android UI Options Menus: OptionsMenu Class and the Action Bar

      • Wallace Jackson
      Pages 97-129

    3. Android UI Local Menus: The ContextMenu Class and PopupMenu Class

      • Wallace Jackson
      Pages 131-152

    4. Android UI Action Bar: Advanced Action Bar Design and ActionBar Class

      • Wallace Jackson
      Pages 153-190

  4. Android UI Design: UI Layout Considerations, Android OS Design Concepts and Android UI Design Guidelines

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. Android UI Design Considerations: Styles, Screen Density Targets and New Media Formats

      • Wallace Jackson
      Pages 193-223

    3. Android UI Design Concepts: Wire-framing & UI Layout Design Patterns

      • Wallace Jackson
      Pages 225-250

    4. Android UI Layout Conventions, Differences and Approaches

      • Wallace Jackson
      Pages 251-272

    5. Android UI Theme Design and Digital Media Concepts

      • Wallace Jackson
      Pages 273-308

  5. Basic Android UI Design: Basic Layout Containers: FrameLayout, LinearLayout, RelativeLayout and GridLayout

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 309-309
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    2. Android’s FrameLayout Class: Using Digital Video in Your UI Design

      • Wallace Jackson
      Pages 311-348

    3. Android’s LinearLayout Class: Horizontal and Vertical UI Design

      • Wallace Jackson
      Pages 349-385

    4. Android’s RelativeLayout Class: UI Design Using One Layout Container

      • Wallace Jackson
      Pages 387-409

    5. Android’s GridLayout Class: UI Design Using a Grid-based Layout

      • Wallace Jackson
      Pages 411-442

  6. Advanced Android UI Design: Advanced Layout Containers: DrawerLayout, SlidingPane, ViewPager, PagerTitleStrip and PagerTabStrip

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 443-443
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About this book

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.

About the author

Wallace Jackson has been writing for leading multimedia publications about his work in new media content development since the advent of Multimedia Producer Magazine nearly two decades ago, when he wrote about computer processor architectures for centerfolds (removable "mini-issue" insert) distributed at SIGGRAPH. Since then, Wallace has written for several other publications about his work in interactive 3D and new media advertising campaign design, including 3D Artist,Desktop Publishers Journal, CrossMedia, AVvideo and Kiosk Magazine.

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