GUI Design for Android Apps

GUI Design for Android Apps is the perfect—and concise—introduction for mobile app developers and designers. Through easy-to-follow tutorials, code samples, and case studies, the book shows the must-know principles for user-interface design for Android apps running on the Intel platform, including smartphones, tablets and embedded devices.

This book is jointly developed for individual learning by Intel Software College and China Shanghai JiaoTong University, and is excerpted from Android Application Development for the Intel® Platform.

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This book is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY). You can download the ebook GUI Design for Android Apps for free.

Title: GUI Design for Android Apps
Publisher: Apress
Author(s): Ryan Cohen, Tao Wang
Published: 2014-08-17
Edition: 1
Format: eBook (pdf, epub, mobi)
Pages: 167
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1484203836
ISBN-13: 9781484203835
License: CC BY
Book Homepage: Free eBook, Errata, Code, Solutions, etc.

Title
Copyright
About ApressOpen
Contents at a Glance
Contents
About the Lead Project Editor
About the Lead Contributing Author
About the Technical Reviewer
Introduction
Chapter 1: GUI Design for Android Apps, Part 1: General Overview
    Overview of GUIs for Embedded Applications
        Characteristics of Interaction Modalities of Android Devices
    UI Design Principles for Embedded Systems
        Considerations of Screen Size
        Size of Application Windows
        Considerations Arising from Touch Screens and Styluses
        Keyboard Input Problems
        Software Distribution and Copyright Protection Problems
    Android Application Overview
        Application File Framework
        Component Structure of Applications
        Content Provider
        Android Emulator
        Introducing Android Runtime (ART)
    Summary
Chapter 2: GUI Design for Android Apps, Part 2: The Android-Specific GUI
    State Transitions of Activities
        Activity States
        Important Functions of Activities
    The Context Class
    Introduction to Intent
        The Main Roles of Intent
        Intent Resolution
    The Relationship between Applications and Activities
    The Basic Android Application Interface
        GuiExam Application Code Analysis
        Using Layouts as Interfaces
        Using the View Directly as an Interface
        Component ID
    Buttons and Events
        Inner Class Listener
        Using ImageView
        Exit Activities and Application
    Summary
Chapter 3: GUI Design for Android Apps, Part 3: Designing Complex Applications
    Applications with Multiple Activities
        Triggering an Explicit Match of Activities with No Parameters
        Triggering Explicit Matching of an Activity with Parameters of Different Applications
        Implicit Matching of Built-In Activities
        Implicit Match that Uses a Custom Activity
Chapter 4: GUI Design for Android Apps, Part 4: Graphic Interface and Touchscreen Input
    Display Output Framework
    Drawing Framework for Responding to Touchscreen Input
    Multi-Touch Code Framework
    Responding to Keyboard Input
    Dialog Boxes in Android
        Using an Activity’s Dialog Theme
        Using a Specific Dialog Class
        Using Toast Reminders
        Dialog Box Example
    Application Property Settings
Index