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Lateral Navigation with swipe views and tabs together with mapview
I've recently designed a new Android Application for a theme park.
According to Android Design Guidelines:
If your app uses action bar tabs, use swipe to navigate between the different views.
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Android: Does it make sense to place action buttons in the Action bar in a settings app?
I'm currently playing with an Android layout for an app that is to be used to configure a remote (wireless connected) embedded controller. It configures a bunch of modes and related settings in the ...
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How to handle pre-4.0 versions of Android when designing a layout?
I'm designing the UI for an Android app taking the Google User Interface guidelines into account for my Android 4.0 phone.
The current concept looks like this:
How would I go about supporting this ...
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Tabs within a tabbed layout in Android?
I'm working on an app for public transit information that has a base layout looking like this:
The three tabs represent trip planner, departure times and disruptions respectively, which are the ...
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Ads, when the user has no internet connection
I have an Android app which, in free version, has an ad block at the top of the screen. Of course users can see ads only if they're connected to internet. If they are not connected they get the same ...
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Android a lot of information on one screen - how to simplify?
I am new to Android development. I am working on application where Sql-lite is also involved, its a database application. The application is used on Android Tablets
In of the screen we have a lot of ...
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Grid dimensions on Android
I'm starting a mobile app on Android that displays nearby restaurants and outing places, but I'm so confused! There are lots of devices and sizes; I want the smart phones, no tablets or non-touch. ...
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What are unique UI controls on Android?
Apart from regular UI controls like tabview and listview, are there any unique and attractive UI controls like Quick action bar, Action bar, or iOS spinner (Date and time selector) which are ...
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Easy to understand public transit journey planner results
I am developing a London jouney planner app (called Pubtran London, it's on Android Market).
Somebody told me that the results are hard to understand and I was quite surprised by that. Maybe it's ...
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How many elements are too many for one screen of a mobile (iOS/Android) application?
Without scrolling, what would be the maximum amount of centered buttons I could arrange on a vertical axis before it became too cluttered? Interface Builder gives suggested distances between ...
