Android UI Design

25 Sep 2012

Google Official Design Guideline

• Android Design. Android team list design as one of its three components(design, develop and distribute).
  • Get Started
    • Creative Vision
    • Design Principles
    • UI Overview
  • Style
  • Patterns
  • Building Blocks
  • Downloads
  • Videos Courses
• Best Practices for User Experience & UI
• Design for multiple screens
  • Supporting Different Screen Sizes
  • Supporting Different Screen Densities
  • Implementing Adaptive UI Flows
• Android Design on Slideshare

pre-Honeycomb and post-Honeycomb comparision

3rd Party Design Reviews

• Android niceties
• The Best Android Apps 2012: A Designers Collection
• 150 Best Android Apps Of Year 2011 [Editor’s Pick]
• Android Patterns
• 30+ Beautiful Holo-Designed Android Apps
• 15 beautiful Android app designs
• 65 Useful Android Apps For Designers
• 40 Beautifully Designed Mobile Apps With Excellent UI Experience in Mind
• Best Android Designs

Tools and references

• Android UI Patterns
• 40+ UI Design Tools and Resources
• Pencil Project A collection of screenshots encompassing some of the best, most beautiful looking Android apps. Aiming to provide inspiration and insight into Android UI conventions.
• android-ui-utils Utilities that help in the design and development of Android application user interfaces. This library currently consists of three individual tools for designers and developers:
  1. Android Asset Studio
  2. Android Design Preview
  3. Pencil Stencils
• Design Caffeine, with Agile Mobile Design Webinar Video
• Quora: What is the best site(s) for info Android UX and design patterns?
• pttrns
• Zhihu Design collections
• Quora: What are the best open source libraries available for Android?http://www.quora.com/Android-Development/What-are-the-best-open-source-libraries-available-for-Android
• openintent’s open source libraries collection
• Wikipedia: List of free and open-source Android applications

Books

• Android Design Patterns: Interaction Design Solutions for Developers. Accompany website: http://www.androiddesignbook.com/ & http://www.designcaffeine.com/

• Mobile Design Pattern Gallery
• Android User Interface Design: Turning Ideas and Sketches into Beautifully Designed Apps
• Smashing Android UI (Smashing Magazine Book Series)
• Designing Mobile Interfaces
• The Mobile Book
• Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience

Open source projects to facilitate Android design and development

• Android Bootstrap Bootstrap your next Android Application Android Bootstrap includes a full working implementation of Fragments, Fragment Pager, Account Manager, android-maven-plugin, RoboGuice 2, ActionBarSherlock 4, ViewPagerIndicator, http-request, GSON, Robotium for integration testing, API Consumption with an API on Parse.com and much more.

• HoloEverywhere Bringing Holo Theme from Android 4.0 to 1.6 and above.

• Android projects on Github is a community on Google+, which provides collections of nice Android open source projects.
• gabrielemariotti/changeloglib Android Library to display your changelog

Nice App Collection

• Google Currents
• Google Play
• Google Plus
• Gmail
• Google IO (open source)

Analytics App Collection

• Google Analytics (by GOOGLE)
• gAnalytics (by E6BAPPS)
• GoAnalytics (Google Analytics) by Jinrong Zheng
• mAnalytics by mugitek
• Google Analytics Eyes
• Google Analytics PerfectWidget by Ilyesoft
• Analytics Center Free by Imil Ziyaztdinov
• Putler - PayPal Analytics by Putler - Apps Magnet
• I Spy Analytics
• Google Finance by GOOGLE
• Bloomberg for Smartphone
• Bank of America
• Stocks - Realtime Stock Quotes
• Piwik
• TeleTRADE Analytics
• Battlefield 3 Analytics

Libraries for developers by Desarrollo Droide