Android User Interface Design

Understanding layouts is important for good Android application design. In this session, you'll learn about the ins and outs of interface design for the Android platform. This session covers layouts, controls, fragments as well as dialogs and paging.

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Android User Interface Design: Layout Basics
Understanding layouts is important for good Android application design. In this tutorial, we provide an overview of how layouts fit into the Android...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
11 Nov 2010
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Android User Interface Design: Basic Buttons
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...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
29 Nov 2010
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Android User Interface Design: Linear Layouts
Understanding layouts is important for good Android application design. In this tutorial, you learn all about linear layouts, which organize user interface...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
20 Dec 2010
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Android UI Fundamentals Challenge: LinearLayout
You’ve read about how linear layouts work in Android. Test your new skills with these progressive challenges involving linear layout controls and solidify...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
27 Dec 2010
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Android User Interface Design: Relative Layouts
Understanding layouts is important for good Android application design. In this tutorial, you learn all about relative layouts, which organize user interface...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
3 Jan 2011
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Android UI Fundamentals Challenge: RelativeLayout
You’ve read about how relative layouts work in Android. Test your new skills with these progressive challenges involving relative layout controls and...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
11 Jan 2011
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Android User Interface Design: Table Layouts
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...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
8 Feb 2011
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Android User Interface Design: Frame Layouts
Frame layouts are one of the simplest layout types used to organize controls within the user interface of an Android application.
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
14 Feb 2011
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Android User Interface Design: Building a ListView Application
The ListView is one of the most useful view controls available on the Android platform for the display of variable amounts of data. In this Mobiletuts+...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
9 Mar 2011
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Android User Interface Design: Working With Fragments
The new Fragment API for Android, introduced in Android 3.0, allows for easier dynamic user interfaces. In this tutorial, learn how to convert a two-screen...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
21 Mar 2011
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Android User Interface Design: Building Application Preference Screens
Many applications can benefit from Shared Preferences – the Android platform’s answer to the persistent storage of application settings. There are many ways...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
2 May 2011
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Android User Interface Design: Basic Text Controls
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create basic Android text controls. Then you'll learn how to configure, style, and manipulate the controls in a variety...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
12 Jul 2011
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Android User Interface Design: Basic Image Controls
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create basic Android image controls. Then you'll learn how to configure, style, and manipulate these controls in a...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
18 Jul 2011
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Android User Interface Design: Working With Dialogs
Android applications are commonly broken down into functional areas where each is tied to an Activity class which dictates the display and behavior of a...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
15 Aug 2011
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Android User Interface Design: Working With Date Picker Dialogs
People format date information in a variety of ways and this makes collecting raw date information from users a bit tricky. The best way to guarantee valid...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
22 Aug 2011
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Android User Interface Design: Password Confirmation
There are numerous types of dialogs available within the Android SDK, such as DatePickerDialogs, ProgressDialogs, and generic dialogs like AlertDialogs. You...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
29 Aug 2011
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Android User Interface Design: The Basics of Control Focus Order
There’s nothing more annoying than trying to navigate a poorly designed user interface on a mobile application. How your application behaves in terms of...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
3 Oct 2011
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Android User Interface Design: Radio Buttons
In this quick tutorial you'll learn how to create basic Android radio selection controls using RadioGroup and RadioButton. You'll also learn how to react...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
10 Oct 2011
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Android User Interface Design: Horizontal View Paging
Perhaps you’ve seen some of the new user interface features available as part of the Android compatibility package. One such feature, horizontal view paging,...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
18 Oct 2011
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Android User Interface Design: Icon Design
Just as iOS apps should emulate the look and feel of the iOS platform, professional-grade Android applications should be designed to integrate well with the...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
7 Nov 2011
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Android User Interface Design: Creating a Numeric Keypad with GridLayout
At first glance, you might wonder why the new GridLayout class even exists in Android 4.0 (aka Ice Cream Sandwich). It sounds a lot like TableLayout. In...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
1 Dec 2011
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