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Adopting sidebars in iOS apps
It looks like several known apps for iOS (Foursquare, Spotify) now adopt the sidebar that already was present in Facebook app (screenshot is from Spotify for iPhone):
AFAIK, this is not a standard ...
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Should I put “.” at the end of messages for mobile users?
Should I write "." at the end of messages displayed to the user in my mobile Android application?
For example:
High bandwidth required, switch to WiFi.
or
High bandwidth required, switch ...
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Keyboard hiding lower buttons on small Android screens
I have a application (Android) which have scroll activity form. On which there is a button for next screen (lowest of scroll). It's looking fine on large screens of android devices. But keyboard hides ...
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Mobile, “Show Remaining” or “Show All”?
In a mobile screen I have n data items in collection, but I am limited to show first 3 or 4 items from it. For the rest I can put a button below 3rd or 4th item which can lead my user to a popup where ...
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Default Android input field styling
I have been showing a prototype of my app to a few people and am surprised by how many of them don't know where to type.
The main screen has three input fields and a search button.
I'm talking about ...
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What to display in mobile app web view when the URL won't load
I'm creating an app whose UI is simply a web browser that loads a URL. Let's not argue about why I'm implementing it this way (I already tried that with the higher-ups). It can still do the background ...
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Should I follow the Android guideline or keep my app's own style when porting it from iOS?
My new project is to port an iOS app to Android platform. Before get started, I'm quite confused on whether I should follow google's guideline since some big titles on Android platform still keep the ...
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Clear selection in Android
When using standard Android apps (like Gmail) which have multiple items to select, a contextual action bar (CAB) comes up showing a checkmark (tick) and some other information (such as "3 selected").
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Action buttons for mobile — ok to go full width?
Is it acceptable to use full width mobile action buttons, say in the footer, like in the 1st example? It's nice and simple but I'm afraid users might mistake it for a regular footer. The 2nd example ...
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For mobile apps, is it “best” to load data before transitioning screens?
In a mobile application you almost always make some sort of api call to fetch data to populate view elements on a screen. Say I am on a home screen (screen A) and want to transition to a profile ...
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Why are icons on mobile phone menu screens square or rectangular but not circular?
If you take a look at the app page of any mobile OS, for example iOS, Android, Ubuntu, Win8, BADA, etc., they all have square icons, either with rounded corner or sharp corners (shown in the first ...
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Trying to build intuitive simple user interface for an iphone app
** UPDATED with picture
Below is a simple mockup for a spending tracker mobile app (for frequent travelers) that i built. Each of the 3 gray boxes are inputs (name, amount, currency). A sample input ...
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Integrate a QR code scanner in my Android app or call one via Intents?
For my current project I need to integratie QR code scanning in my app (which will be available for both Android and iOS). The QR code contains info that sets up the app for the rest of use case. For ...
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Should I build camera functionality into a photo sharing app or let the user use the device camera app they would already be familiar with?
I have been working on the idea I have for sort of another photo sharing app. Last few days, as I have been working on the part of it for taking photos in square format (like instagram) I started to ...
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Why did Google opt-out of hardware buttons for Nexus devices?
Are there any real UX reasons to remove hardware buttons from Android Nexus devices?
In above Nexus 4 the bottom part is wasted space - won't adding buttons like menu/back/home make it more ...
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Is it bad to post an app update to only show ads?
So, I have made an app and it's getting it's fair share of action on the Play Store. It is free and currently contains no adverts.
I am nearing completion of integration with Flurry Ads. I am also ...
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Which way is better to invite your facebook friends via an IOS/Android app?
I am building a social community via an IOS and Android app, both apps are using "Post to friend wall" to invite friends to use with a direct link for the landing page of the app to download it.
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What android UI control fits for selection of number in large range?
I'm working on a application for tracking body mass measurements. I need the user to be able to input a number representing body weight, whose magnitude ranges from 0.00 kg to normally 300.00 kg. The ...
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Optimizing the selection process [closed]
I am developing a mobile application in which the user selects the fields that s/he wants to enter information into. At the moment, I have two screens - one for selecting the fields and other for ...
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Android: Back Button Only vs. Extra Navigation
General UX question for Android:
Assume a simple view (activity or fragment) hierarchy, like so: A --> B. The transition from A to B is added to Android's back stack.
On screen B, is it best to ...
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Swipe indicators on a small screen
My Android app has a screen that displays the details of an item selected from a list, as shown above. The screen allows the user to scroll to the next or previous item in the list by swiping ...
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Have controls fade out on scroll?
Background
In our application we have a list view of contacts. In addition to the list there is a filter panel at the top of the list which provides contact type filtering through a segment control:
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Can you explain the Up button behaviour in Google Play
According to the official Android design guidelines, the Up button should take the user one level up in the app hierarchy: http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/navigation.html
I have a ...
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when designing an app for both Android and iPhone, should the user interface be the same?
When designing a mobile app for use on both iPhone and Android, should you make the UI the same on both platforms? Why or why not?
I have thought about this a bit. To some extent, this entails more ...
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What should an Android version of a multi-step modal view look like?
For an iOS app I'm working on, there is an important full-screen multi-step modal view used for certain key actions. The user is looking at a bunch of payees she can pay. She can tap a button to add ...
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How do I present on/off indicators without leading users to believe they are buttons?
We are in the process of designing a mobile application for an Android device. It is a requirement that we have indicators for whether a function is turned on or off across the top of the screen (e.g. ...
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What can be an alternative to tabs in an iphone or android application
What type of a design/design philosophy/gesture can be a good alternative to tabs in an iphone or an android application? Tabs are good and tell the user that there is another ...
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Is there a better solution than breadcrumbs to cascading categories on mobile?
I am working on a mobile application (Android ICS based) where I need to show a lot of products on screen. Now the products are categorized in several categories which are on X level, where X is ...
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Is swiping up/down better than swiping left/right for changing months on a calendar?
I have created a custom View to display a Calendar in Android.
The display is always 1 month. I'm using a swipe to the sides to switch months. Now I have seen some other Apps (including the installed ...
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Android - Visually impactful representation of small but important data
I am building an app where lets say I have four to five very important terms, clicking which take me to separate activities. I want these terms to be visually impactful in what they convey and how ...
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Multi Select hierarchy for Mobile Design
I am working on a native application which will user to select multiple level of a hierarchy and perform some filtering.
So for example we have multiple level of category of products like Home Care > ...
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Checklist App (Process Documentation) Interface For Android Mobile Tablet & Phone
I'd like some help figuring out a good interface design for my app. It will be a checklist application, I guess somewhat similar to a todo list but instead of for things todo it is for documenting a ...
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What is the most used method to categorize new threads in a mobile forum application? [closed]
I am planning to launch a new Forum/Chat app for Android/iPhone. The app requires users to specify a category before creating a new thread.
What is the most common method to show and allow users to ...
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How should I indicate to a user that they've already viewed an item?
In a mobile app in developing, I'm showing a list of results where each item can be clicked on to view more details.
For each item in the list I'd like to indicate to the user that they've already ...
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Any prototyping tools have ice cream sandwich stencils yet? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What tools can I use to design for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)?
I got a license for Axure but was dissapointed to find that Android stencils on there are from 1.6 ...
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Do I need to design four different apps for Android, iOS, smartphones, or have one common design?
I have to start designing for an app which will be used by Android & IOS users both on Smartphones and Tablets.
Do I need to design four different apps or have one common design and then ...
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Suggestions for a touch UI used to book seats on a bus
I am trying to design the layout for a Bus Ticket Booking App.
User is allowed to choose the seats he wishes to book. Below is the layout provided to us.
I am looking for some inspiration and ...
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Bus Ticket Booking Form - Mobile
While designing a Bus booking site - i was thinking on the number of inputs i will require for searching all the buses between two routes.
The Web version contains these forms
One Way/ Round Trip ...
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Are “submit” buttons important for forms on iPhone and Android apps?
When inputting text on the last text field in a form on an iPhone and Android app, the enter key can be highlighted or (on iOS anyway) renamed "done", so that tapping it will submit the form. ...
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How do you indicate that a UI element affords sliding, without using an actual slider?
I'm designing an interface for an Android app that would allow the user to control the pitch, tempo, volume, etc. of some music playing in the background.
Here's what I've sketched so far:
I ...
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In RTL locales, should mobile application animations be reversed?
In mobile applications, it's common to drill down with the new view animating in from the right. Going back results in the opposing animation (from the left). These are analogous to turning a page.
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How could one prevent drunk users from using a mobile application?
Consider a mobile application which for some reason needs to prevent drunk users from using it (e.g. to avoid dreaded "drunk dials" or "drunk texts"). How could "sober authentication" be executed from ...
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How do you convert computer users to mobile users?
How do you convince your computer users to try out your mobile app? The problems I see are:
Detection - There's no way to read people's minds and figure out what phone they use based off of what ...
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On Android, how do you design a very shallow navigation?
I need to create a simple account section in my mobile app with 1-level deep navigation:
___ Register
/
Account --
\___ Login
On iPhone, I'm using a grouped table ...
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Sorting photos in mobile app
We're currently developing an app for posting classified ads where the user is able to upload up to 10 photos per ad (from camera or library). The app will be available for Android and iOS (with ...
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What UI design should I use for a smartphone app?
On desktop platforms, using the system's control styling, etc. is a very common practice and changing it ("theming") is usually looked down upon unless the application specifically calls for it (like ...
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What would this widget be called?
What is this control that is used to select an item in this screenshot called?
This is also in the latest Facebook for Android update. What is it called?
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A workable tag auto-suggestion design for mobile devices
Over at Stack Exchange we (fairly) recently rolled out a mobile design for all of our sites. This was definitely a 1.0 attempt, and while I think it's a huge improvement over what we had (which was ...
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UI for saving changes in document-based mobile app?
I'm making a photoshop-like image editor (e.g. for drawing pictures and diagrams) for iPhone and Android mobile devices. I'm designing the interface for saving documents with regards to how data loss ...
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Mobile Application UI Development, what should I look for?
I have been tasked to find a mobile app UI developer. I am not sure what to look for. We have a team of mobile app developers we are working with who asked us to come up with the UI. Do I need someone ...
