Android User Interface Design: Turning Ideas and Sketches into Beautifully Designed Apps (Paperback)

Build Android Apps That Are Stunningly Attractive, Functional, and Intuitive

In today’s crowded Android marketplace, it’s more important than ever to differentiate your apps. Great design is the best way to do that. Now, leading Android app design expert Ian G. Clifton shows you how to make your apps come alive and how to deliver apps that users will want, love, and buy!

Reflecting the Android 4.2 SDK, this book serves both as a tutorial for the entire design and implementation process and as a handy reference you’ll rely on for every Android development project.

Clifton shows how to create effective designs, organize them into Android components, and move gracefully from idea, to wireframe, to comp, to finished app. You’ll learn how to bring your own voice, personality, and style to your app designs; how to leverage advanced drawing techniques such as PorterDuff compositing; how to test designs on diverse Android devices; and much more.

Android User Interface Design details each step of the design and development process and contains extensive downloadable sample code, including complete finished apps.

• Learn how Android has evolved to support outstanding app design
• Integrate app design with development, from idea through deployment
• Understand views, the building blocks of Android user interfaces
• Make the most of wireframes and prototypes
• Build efficient layouts and integrate smooth animations
• Make apps more useful by automatically updating ListViews
• Combine views into custom components
• Use image compositing and other advanced techniques
• Work with the canvas and advanced drawing
• Leverage Google Play and Amazon Appstore assets

One step at a time, this guide helps you bridge the gap between Android developers and designers so you can work with colleagues to create world-class app designs...or do it yourself!

建立令人驚豔、功能強大且直覺的 Android 應用程式

在如今競爭激烈的 Android 市場中，區隔你的應用程式比以往更加重要。出色的設計是實現這一目標的最佳方式。現在，領先的 Android 應用程式設計專家 Ian G. Clifton 將向您展示如何使您的應用程式生動起來，以及如何提供讓用戶渴望、喜愛並購買的應用程式！

本書基於 Android 4.2 SDK，既是整個設計和實施過程的教程，也是您在每個 Android 開發項目中都會依賴的便捷參考。

Clifton 展示了如何創建有效的設計，將其組織成 Android 組件，並從構想、線框圖、設計稿到完成的應用程式中流暢地遷移。您將學習如何將自己的聲音、個性和風格融入應用程式設計中；如何利用高級繪圖技術，例如 PorterDuff 合成；如何在不同的 Android 設備上測試設計等等。

《Android 用戶界面設計》詳細介紹了設計和開發過程的每一個步驟，並包含大量可下載的示例代碼，包括完整的成品應用程式。

- 了解 Android 如何演變以支援優秀的應用程式設計
- 將應用程式設計與開發整合，從構想到部署
- 理解視圖，這是 Android 用戶界面的構建塊
- 充分利用線框圖和原型
- 建立高效的佈局並整合流暢的動畫
- 通過自動更新 ListView 使應用程式更加實用
- 將視圖組合成自定義組件
- 使用圖像合成和其他高級技術
- 使用畫布和高級繪圖
- 利用 Google Play 和 Amazon Appstore 資源
- 逐步引導，幫助您彌合 Android 開發人員和設計師之間的差距，以便與同事合作創建世界一流的應用程式設計...或者自己動手！