Pro Android UI

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If youre an Android application developer, chances are youre 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 Androids 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. What youll learnHow to design and develop a sleek looking and highly functional user interface (UI) design and experience (UX) design using Android APIsWhat Android layout containers are, and how to best leverage themHow to design user-friendly UI layouts that conform to Android UI guidelinesWhat, when, why and how to use fundamental Android UI layout containers (ViewGroup subclasses) and Android UI widgets (View subclasses)How to use new media assets such as images, video, and animation in a UIHow to create UI Fragments for UI design for specific ActionBar or Activity classes that you wish to create for UI designs within your applicationsScaling UI Design for the various Android smartphone and tablet form factorsWho this book is for This book is for experienced Android app developers. It can also be for app developers and UI designers working on other platforms like iOS and BlackBerry who might also be interested in Android. Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction to the Core Classes for Android UI Design: Development Tools, Layout Containers and Widgets1. Android UI Design Tools: Setting Up Your Android Development System2. Android UI Layouts: Layout Containers and the ViewGroup Class3. Android UI Widgets: User Interface Widgets and the View ClassPart II. Introduction to Android Menu Class for UI Design: OptionsMenu, ContextMenu, PopupMenu and ActionBar4. Android UI Options Menus: OptionsMenu Class and an Introduction to the Android ActionBar5. Android UI Local Menus: The ContextMenu Class and PopupMenu Class6. Android UI Action Bar: Advanced ActionBar Design & ActionBar ClassPart III. Android UI: Layout Considerations, Concepts & UI Containers: LinearLayout, RelativeLayout, FrameLayout7. Android UI Design Considerations: Styles, Screen Density Targets and New Media Formats8. Android UI Design Concepts: Wire-framing & UI Layout Design Patterns9. Android UI Layout Conventions, Differences and Approaches10. Android UI Theme Design & Digital Media ConceptsPart IV. Basic Android UI Design: Basic Layout Containers: FrameLayout, LinearLayout,RelativeLayout, GridLayout11. Androids FrameLayout Class: Using Digital Video in your UI Design12. Androids LinearLayout Class: Horizontal and Vertical UI Design13. Androids RelativeLayout Class: Complex UI Design Via a Single Layout Container14. Androids GridLayout Class: Optimized UI Design using a Grid-based LayoutPart V. Advanced Android UI Design: Advanced Layout Containers: DrawerLayout, SlidingPane, ViewPager, Strips15. Android DrawerLayout Class: Using Left and Right Side UI Drawer Design16. Android SlidingPaneLayout Class: Optimized UI Design using a Grid-based Layout Container17. Android ViewPager Class: Using View Paging to Navigate Complex View Hierarchies18. Android PagerTabStrip and PagerTitleStrip Classes: Design Navigation UI Elements for the ViewPager Layout