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

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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.

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!

375 pages, Paperback

First published April 14, 2013

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October 1, 2013
Excellent Android design/development book that clearly explains each topic and includes sample code. Will be implementing some of the concepts explained in the book into my existing applications, as well as, future applications that I develop.
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April 9, 2014
Not a terrible book to read if you are new to app (especially Android app development) but I've hoped to see more examples on do's and don'ts when creating an android app.
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November 14, 2014
The book covers some of the basic concepts regarding Android UI. I my opinion it is most suitable for people who are fairly new to this topic.
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December 12, 2018
Отличная книга для Android-разработчиков. Рассказывается о проектировании и реализации пользовательского интерфейса приложения. При этом затрагиваются некоторые редко упоминаемые аспекты. Рекомендую.
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