Google's mobile operating system and applications for it.
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Action Overflow Android
In a case where we have only one action (that is having a info icon) should we still keep it in action overflow for Jelly Bean design or we can have it as an icon itself on the action bar?
The reason ...
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1answer
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Porting iOS to Android
I'm not really a designer/UX expert, however I have been developing on Android for some time now and I always try to stick to the look and feel of the standard (ICS) look and feel (with some degree of ...
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Email Design - Image Scale Issue [closed]
When writing an email and looking at it on Windows, iOS, and Android email clients, I'm seeing an issue with image auto-scaling.
One of the apps in iOS doesn't auto-scale the image at all (and ...
2
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2answers
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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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1answer
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Master details form in Android
I have an activity that is used a lot, that requires a lot of input fields and it can be updated when the user wants, although it won't be very common.
In this moment, I have something like this:
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1answer
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How can I direct the user to add a home screen widget after configuring it?
I have an Android app which includes a home screen widget with complicated configuration options. To make it easier to configure a widget, I've made it possible to set up a widget configuration in an ...
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4answers
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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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5answers
557 views
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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2answers
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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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3answers
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How to A/B test a published IOS and Android app on actual users?
I've published several apps on IOS and Android adding flurry to measure the interaction that is happening in those apps, however, I'd love to enhance this interaction and make my apps more useful by ...
2
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2answers
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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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2answers
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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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3answers
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Android widget : how to tell users that a similar looking control does not perform same?
In my android application I am developing a desktop widget that mirrors many important tasks supported by my application. This widget contains two buttons that mirroring their counterparts in the app ...
4
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3answers
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In a high precision meter do I display battery voltage as a fractional number of volts or as a whole number of millivolts?
There's an Android battery meter application for enthusiasts (control freaks actually) that displays the remaining charge percentage and the current voltage. A typical phone will use a Li-Ion battery ...
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1answer
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A tabbed Android UX element similar to iOS App card?
Is there a standard Android layout that allows for tabs within a context menu? Something similar to the iOS app card would be great.
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3answers
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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 ...
6
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4answers
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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 ...
3
votes
1answer
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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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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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2answers
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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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1answer
144 views
Differences between iOS and Android GUIs [closed]
People sometimes ask me why I chose to buy an iPhone instead of an Android. I always reply the same thing: iPhones (and Apple devices in general) are more user friendly, in my opinion, than Androids. ...
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Google Now like interface on iOS [closed]
So, I absolutely love Google Now's cards interface on Android.. And recently it has even come to iOS.
Is there any tutorial, or sample project out there which can help me create a cards interface for ...
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4answers
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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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ICS style guide - Is there a standard icon to indicate drag and drop in a list view?
I searched here but didn't see an answer. I've gone through the new ICS Android design guidelines but did not see a standard icon or recommended icon for drag and drop in list views.
Is there one? ...
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0answers
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User Interface Thread - Android [closed]
I am studying for an exam in OOP and one of the questions is based on the UI thread in Android. It says:
"Explain the role of the user interface(UI) thread. In Android
programming, explain why ...
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3answers
538 views
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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2answers
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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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0answers
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Long press on Android and iOs for Multi-touch apps? [duplicate]
Can it be used the long press? How can we assume the users know it?
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votes
1answer
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In Android application, when to use View control instead of Tab
I develop a shopping application for one company. First time I design to use Tab to categorize product in shop. But I am not sure Ishould use "View control" instead of "Tab" or not.
Tab and View ...
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7answers
10k views
Alternatives to Microsoft Visio? [closed]
What are good alternatives to Microsoft Visio?
I use it in my Android/iPhone app design workflow to illustrate a sequence of actions. Then I can generate a PDF to share with developers. However, ...
0
votes
1answer
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What is the best practice approach in android for form input that is related to the current view
I am currently going through the process of designing the experience of my first android app for a company I am involved with. Forgive me if some of the terminology is incorrect; coming from a web ...
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2answers
145 views
How to prototype a new concept for UI design for mobile devices? [closed]
I am currently developing a new kind of UI for android device and I wanted to know how do I make prototype of it ? since none of the existing UI design tool has support for it. I wanted to include ...
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votes
3answers
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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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3answers
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Is it ever a good idea to present a radio-button menu without outlining prior selection?
I'm puzzled by the UX additions in the latest default Camera app in Android 4.2.
The whole menu with all camera options (other than zoom) is made as a circle. You activate this circle menu by ...
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4answers
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How to allow quick toggling between two out of several values?
An Android app provides several possible values for a setting. The user needs to be able to quickly toggle between two of the settings, A and B. 95% of the time they will only be interested in A and ...
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votes
3answers
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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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1answer
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screen resolution for android and iPhone design in Photoshop [closed]
For iPhone an Android design, why we set the psd resolution up to 72?
why we aren't using 160 for mdpi and 240 for hdpi so on.
Eg: for iPhone 2x res we are choosing 640 x 960px and and screen ...
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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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Pattern for user reviews in Android? [closed]
I have seen this question in stackoverflow and it is useful for me but I think that question must be asked here, so I copy it's contents and paste below.
Really I need an interesting pattern for ...
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1answer
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Navigation Design for GoogleTV
I'm doing some research on ways to navigate on a GoogleTV.
There aren't any design guidelines, but it seems a Left Menu Bar design, like the GTv YouTube app, is common use.
In my opinion it doesn't ...
5
votes
1answer
118 views
Is there a style guide for NFC functionality on Android (or generally)?
I've just added NFC functionality to my Android app, and I need to expose it to the user. I don't have a separate UX specialist or tech writer to hand this off to, so I want to make sure I don't write ...
3
votes
2answers
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Is it advisable to use own color scheme for Android app
Android does come with 2 default color scheme : Holo light and Holo dark.
I was wondering, is it advisable to use own color scheme in Android app? What kind of consideration we should taken in, when ...
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Tools for creating mockups for mobile device UIs [closed]
I am looking for tools that can help me to create UI mockups for different mobile phones such as iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7 devices. Is there any application that can do this?
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1answer
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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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7answers
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Alternative for circles page indicator for many pages?
What's a good alternative for indicating that the user can swipe across the screen to get the next/previous item and/or showing the current position, considering that there are many pages (usually ...
0
votes
1answer
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What should status bar toggle button behavior be?
I installed update of android 4.2.2 to my tablet. A new feature is "Long-press to toggle Bluetooth or Wi-Fi in the settings pull-down".
So there are some interesting differences between offical rom ...
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Is it appropriate to use Metro style design for a cross-platform mobile app
I'm finding it really difficult to design UI's for android and ios after falling in love with the windows metro design.
I wondered if providing a metro style app across all platforms would be such a ...
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votes
4answers
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Navigating between tabs in an android app
What is the preferred method of navigating between tabs in an android app? Is it:
a. Clicking on them?
b. Swiping left/right?
I can't seem to get a definitive answer from the android design ...
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5answers
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Where to put OK/Cancel on an Android activity form?
Imagine an app screen used to fill out a form and then either Ok, or Cancel - an activity that on a desktop application might be a dialog box. The keyboard will be displayed, so we have limited screen ...
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2answers
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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 ...
