Pro Android UI

✍ Scribed by Wallace Jackson (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 565
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Usinga top down approach, Pro Android UIshows you how to design and develop the best user interface for your app, whiletaking into account the varying device form factors in the increasingly fragmentedAndroid environment. Pro Android UIaims to be the ultimate reference and customization cookbook for your AndroidUI Design, and as such will be useful to experienced developers as well asbeginners.

✦ Table of Contents

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

✦ Subjects

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction