| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
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At a Glance; Part 1: Introduction to the Core Classes for Android UI Design: Development Tools, Layout Containers and Widgets; Chapter 1: Android UI Design Tools: Setting Up Your Android Development System; Java 6: Download and Install the Foundation for Android; Android ADT Bundle: Find and Download Android's IDE; Android ADT Bundle: Installing the Android IDE; Android ADT Bundle: Launch the IDE and Update the ADT; UI Wireframing Tool: Downloading and Installing Pencil; Digital Image Editing: Download and Install GIMP 2.8.10; 3D Modeling and Animation: Download and Install Blender |
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Digital Audio Editing: Downl oad and Install Audacity 2.0.5Digital Video Editing: Download and Install Lightworks 11.5; Summary; Chapter 2: Android UI Layouts: Layout Containers and the ViewGroup Class; Layout Containers: Using XML for Tag-based UI Design; Using Parameters: Refining and Customizing the UI Tags; Android ViewGroup: Our Layout Container's Superclass; ViewGroup. LayoutParams: Nested Class Controls Layout; ViewGroup. MarginLayoutParams: Nested Class for Margin; The Difference Between Margins and Padding Parameters; Animating Your ViewGroup: LayoutAnimationController |
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Create a UserInterface Project and pro.android.ui PackageThe New Android Application Dialog; New Android Application -- Configure Project Dialog; New Android Application -- Configure Launcher Icon; New Android Application -- Create Activity Dialog; New Android Application -- Blank Activity Dialog; ViewGroup XML Attributes: Configuring the RelativeLayout; View XML Attributes: Configuring the TextView UI Widget; View Padding Parameter: Add Space Inside the Container; The AnalogClock Widget: Adding a View to the ViewGroup; Using the Values Folder: Finish Your UI Design Using XML; Summary |
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Chapter 3: Android UI Widgets: User Interface Widgets and the View ClassThe Android View Class: The Superclass for UI Widgets; Android View Direct Subclasses: Key Widgets and Utilities; Using View Properties: Important Parameters; Focus of a View: Which UI Widget has the User's Attention; View Listeners: Making a UI Widget Respond to the User; UI Layout Creation: Using the setContentView() Method; Adding a Button UI Widget to Our RelativeLayout Container; Eclipse ADT Problems Tab: Debugging XML Errors in ADT; Relative Positioning: Adding the UI Button to the Hierarchy |
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String Constants: Adding a Tag for Our UI ButtonEvent Handling: Adding an OnClickListener in Java Code; Controlling AnalogClock Visibility: .setVisibility() Method; Install and Configure an Emulator: Testing Our Java Code; Completing the UI Design Simulation: Adding Two Buttons; Summary; Part 2: Introduction to the Android Menu Classes for UI Design: OptionsMenu, ContextMenu, PopupMenu and ActionBar; Chapter 4: Android UI Options Menus: OptionsMenu Class and the Action Bar; Android Menu Class: A Public Interface for Making Menus; Menus for Android User Interface Design: An Overview |
| Summary |
If you're an Android application developer, chances areyou're using fixed, scrolling, swipe-able, and other cutting-edge custom UIDesigns in your Android development projects. These UI Design approaches aswell as other Android ViewGroup UI layout containers are the bread and butterof 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 todesign and develop the best user interface for your app, while taking intoaccount the varying device form factors in the increasingly fragmented Androidenvironment. Pro Android UI aims to be the ultimate reference and customizationcookbook for your Android UI Design, and as such will be useful to experienceddevelopers as well as beginners. With Android's powerful UI layout classes, you can easilycreate everything from the simplest of lists to fully tricked-out userinterfaces. While using these UI classes for boring, standard user interfacescan be quite simple, customizing a unique UI design can often become extremelychallenging |
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Includes index |
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Springer eBooks |
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Android (Electronic resource) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009043077
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Android (Electronic resource) fast |
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Application software -- Development.
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Mobile computing.
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User interfaces (Computer systems)
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Electronic Data Processing
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User-Computer Interface
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COMPUTERS -- Operating Systems -- Android.
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COMPUTERS -- Software Development & Engineering -- General.
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User interfaces (Computer systems)
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Application software -- Development
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Mobile computing
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781430249870 |
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1430249870 |
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