Questions tagged [android]
Us ethis tag only if Android system is an important part of the question for a user experience design. If your question is written from an *Android user*'s point-of-view, you'll probably get a good answer on the [Android Stack Exchange](http://android.stackexchange.com/).
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Should Android and iPhone UI be different?
I'm not completely new to developing apps, but I'm at a point where I'm trying to develop something and deploy it on several mobile platforms. To only concentrate on two major ones, suppose I'm ...
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How to structure Android app navigation with many levels?
The app I'm working on is a little like a set of sub-apps within one app, so the structure is basically as follows. Note that the subsections are a mix of tools and content (i.e. this isn't an app ...
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Indicate long click option to user on Android
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Android has the feature of pop up menus (sort of like right click) that happen when a long click is done. This is typically done on list view but could be done anywhere. And even on list ...
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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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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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iPad/iPhone alternative for hover states
I've recently updated my personal portfolio with some CSS3 and jQuery magic. I'm extremely pleased with the results and yes, it's fully responsive. But i have an issue. I've structured my portfolio ...
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best image to indicate swipe left right
What is the most appropriate image to indicate to users to swipe left or right?
i am using http://cubiq.org/swipeview but i feel like it needs a swipe indicator in the background somewhere.
Edit: for ...
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What is better for UX - hiding or disabling irrelevant buttons
This question follows on from my last question here. Is there a commonly accepted wisdom on how to deal with buttons that are not always relevant. The two possible routes and the issues I see with ...
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Edit & save buttons - do I need them? where to place them?
I'm designing a simple app for the Android platform.
I have a page with some data, this page can be reached by two options:
create new page- input fields are empty
edit existing page- input fields ...
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Screen size to start designing in Android?
I am newbie at working with android.
I have read several uxexchange questions here, articles etc. but I am still struggling on which size of screen should I start for the android app we need to work?...
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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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Is it frowned upon to allow the user two different options to perform the same action?
I have an app I am building where a user can browse through content similar to the Facebook timeline.
One action the user can take is follow this person.
All actions for each piece of content I ...
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Do spinner-based date pickers on iOS & Android detract from the user's experience?
Generally speaking, the rule of thumb on mobile devices is to follow the platform conventions, and that native controls are almost always better than custom UIs. However, I'm at a loss as to whether ...
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Asking feedback/rating for a mobile app?
Fig.1: A typical prompt, asking user for feedback/rating in iOS
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Any serious smartphone users must have seen a message similar to Fig.1 above at least once. Variations of such prompt include:...
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Best way of representing Hierarchical data in android
I am trying to find out the best way of representing hierarchical data in android. There are no tree view controls and expandable list views dont work since i can have many levels of hierarchy. I ...
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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 ...
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Reducing Button Clutter and improving UX
This question follows on from some of my previous questions on this forum:
header-footer-icon-usability
capabilities-detrimental-to-usability
With the help of the answers and suggestions I got here ...
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Should video always play full screen on cell phones?
This is a discussion of how to design a video website's UI based on a cell phone's features. I personally think that the UI should be based solely on the phone's screen size. A co-worker thinks that ...
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Should I use only one icon for a key in a keyboard?
I have the following Android custom keyboard:
The top 4 buttons are tabs
The middle 9 buttons are various keys that you can press for the keyboard to automatically generate a paragraph of text.
The ...
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Header/Footer Icon usability
Consider the two screenshots shown below
The context here is an "offers" mobile app with the icons serving the following functions
Drop down "refine" results list (top left)
Configure/Settings (top ...
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Is copying other app's UI okay?
I'm making an Android game with a UI similar to Facebook Messenger Android app. I didn't re-create all the UI elements, but users will surely know it looks like Messenger since the game is about ...
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Do material design's floating action buttons provide a bad UX?
Google's material design largely focuses on clean visuals and a good user experience, but there is one feature that I have questioned: floating action buttons.
This is a large button that appears in ...
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Android UX - When to use Bottom navigation and when to use Tabs
I look at Material Navigation pattern on material.google.com It shows that android officially has Bottom navigation for Android UI
Before March 2016 Android seriously put the page switch on top tabs ...
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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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What key things form the best Android app UI? [closed]
To those of you who've built many apps, what are the things that are critical for a good UI? I'm thinking things like:
Action Bar
Well-designed icons
Use threads to keep the app responsive
A selector ...
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Is there a "best place" to put ads in an app to avoid user irritation or will users look over them anyway?
I'm embarking on a new project and one of the stipulations from the client is that the Android app I am designing MUST have banner ads in it but they are also to be put where they will "cause the ...
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Back vs close icon in Material Design
Some Material Design apps use the "close" icon instead of the more common "back" icon in the toolbar, for example:
(From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27125340/material-close-button-in-toolbar-...
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Android UX - when to use Tabs and when to use Navigation Drawer?
I'm looking for guidelines regarding when to use Tabs vs. when to use a Navigation Drawer(sidebar).
For example, as of these days, Facebook and Dropbox, which are extremely popular (+100M users), use ...
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Buttons placement convention in Android
Is there any convention of placing positive buttons on the right and negative on the left in Android. I know for dialog boxes this is preferred
as opposed to this because its more intuitive
But ...
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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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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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Android back button - Global history back, or menu back?
On the Android, is the expected action of the back button to navigate backward through menus, or does it just go "back" to the previous screen you came from?
I don't have an Android device to sample ...
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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 ...
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Android List View - delete row button, delete selected button or delete from item click menu?
Android List view activity with item rows. User needs to be able delete some rows.
I know standard way in Android is to use item click menu. But it's 2 clicks. Is it best way?
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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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Problem with avoiding right caret on Android
I am currently adapting an Android app to follow the design guidelines more and more.
One thing I am doing is removing the right carets as suggested. While this works fine for listview where each ...
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List icon vs menu icon
As of Ice Cream Sandwich, the new standard icon for menus is three vertically aligned squares as such:
Before that, the menu expansion was three horizontal lines like this, but without the triangle:
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Selecting age between 6 and 18
I've got a reasonably simple requirement but can't come up with any appealing ways of presenting it to the user.
To meet the requirement, the user has to be able to choose 1 or more age groups, ...
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What deliverables do I need to request from a visual designer for my Android app?
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq Mockups
I am designing an Android app game for children. I have created wireframes for each screen.
I am used to requesting graphics ...
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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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How to present an optional binary choice without a preset value?
How would you go about approaching a form where the user should pick one of the binary choices (yes/no) in the UI, but it should also not be enforced to block advancement within the flow.
So ...
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Implementing UI Design of iOS to Android App, Good Idea?
I found a similar question here but I want to hear the answer to my questions.
Our team has launched an iOS version of our app, let's call it X App. We have sold this to 3 clients and they like it. ...
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Porting an Iphone app to Android - what are the ActionBar considerations?
we have an iPhone app Design with an designed icon tab bar at the bottom.
For adoption to Android I have a few questions:
Is there a need to put the tabs to the top? Or is it okay to break with ...
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Best practice for Android form - selection of large range of numbers
For a user input field in an Android application I am developing, I need the user to be able to input a number representing a distance, whose magnitude ranges from 0 to normally ~150 (but can be ...
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Navigation drawer and hardware back button: when on root level, exit app or go back?
I have an Android app with several different categories that the user can navigate between using navigation drawer. These categories have drill down views that replace the hamburger icon with a ...
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What is the best way to allow a user to select one value from a list of potentially hundreds?
I'm trying to write an Android app that requires users to select a value from a list of potentially hundreds. They're likely to know the item they're selecting to asking them to filter by typing seems ...
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What is the best practice for displaying a data grid on a mobile device?
I can't find resources, guidelines or best practices for natively displaying a data grid on an enterprise mobile app?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
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Android pattern of left aligning in action bar
The design guideline for Android action bars is to left align the text or branding of the app, as opposed to center alignment in iOS.
Other than the fact that it increases familiarity with other ...
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Should touch-screen simple informational dialogs have an OK button?
I am developing an android application which has quite a few dialogs that just contain text and an 'OK' button. Pressing the 'OK' button loses the dialog, as does pressing the 'back' button on the ...
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Difference between android and ipad application
What are the key factors which makes an app more of android or iPad specific. Would like to hear about usability part of it also.
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