Questions tagged [android]
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Is a bottom sheet dialog "unfitting" for navigation?
Edit: I posted an answer below containing various attempts based on the ideas provided here.
I am developing an application with a somewhat special main screen, from where the app is divided into two ...
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How long to keep the UI state of an app, when app is in background? (Android)
I'm designing an Android app that lets people observe medical data. Besides seeing live data, users can scroll back to inspect earlier data.
I'm trying to decide if, when a user scrolls back to see ...
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Show multiple statuses/state on a list item
Currently, I am working on a feature for a mobile forms application where users can send data via SMS and Internet. What I need to accomplish is a way to display both the internet and sms submission ...
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White action bar or dark actionbar
I see many apps today uses shades of white extensively in their design.
Even action bar color is shade of white which was used to be a dark color earlier. This seems to be a trend.
As I read in this ...
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Better graph in mobile device?
I'm building an app with graphs in it, using angularjs, d3 and bootstrap:
http://krispo.github.io/angular-nvd3/#/
The result:
Since there are many types of graphs with each different ...
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Normal Dialog or Bottom Sheet dialog for confirmation
I am about to pick dialog type for confirmation (yes, no) when deleting an item.
I have two options to choose from:
Bottom sheet dialog
Normal dialog
What is the best for this scenario and why?
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Mobile Tables - Accessibility (iOS vs Android)
iOS - Disclosure Indicators
When this element is present, users know they can tap anywhere in the row to see the next level in the hierarchy or the choices associated with the list item. Use a ...
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Grab attention on buttons
how would you improve the buttons on the top of the screen? To grab attention of the user I tried to change a bit their color (they are dark blue instead of black), but I think that they are not ...
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Should you put a Notification preference into your Inapp preferences (Android)
Our Android app is featuring push-notifications, and we want the user to be able to activate/deavtivate them.
Should we make an option for this in our inapp-preferences or is it just confusing because ...
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Is it okay to display Home icon instead of the Back icon in mobile applications?
I am designing a mobile application, it is to schedule medical visits. The initial screen is the list of appointments and from there, user can navigate to see visit details. When the user is in the ...
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What's the best way to show a user that a field is tappable?
I have an Android application that displays information row by row. Like below
Field &...
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Is it a norm in android apps to only have bottom navigation only on parent activities
I have checked multiple apps, and in most of them, bottom navigation is only visible on parent activities, when i go in any inner activity bottom navigation goes away, so my question is that is there ...
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System Nav Bar Required? If not, pros/cons for keeping it?
Haven't worked on an Android app in a bit and was wondering if the system navigation bar needs to be there or not.
Looking at my husbands phone (I am on iOS), it's not on any of his apps. Is there a ...
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Best way to denote possibility of refreshing an image which is embedded in text in Android
In an Android application, I have to display images during texts. For example:
So image must be a part of text without border, shadow, ... or with button effect. Problem is that sometimes image does ...
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Which text is more effective to encourage users to leave review for Android App
I have prepared 2 types of text which used to ask user to leave review in Google Play store for Android app.
It is a dialog, which will pop up, if user has used this app for N times for last M days.
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Add an element to an interface without increasing the complexity of the layout
I need to implement a text and a switch to a login interface. This is what I made:
The problem is that I think it is a bit inappropriate, considering the layout and colors chosen in the interface. ...
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A ripple animation to make the user aware of a new or unknown feature
There's a UI technique I've previously seen on apps where a new feature or otherwise a feature unknown to the user has some kind of round ripple animation the size of a fingertip on it to indicate to ...
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When to shown app intro onboarding? before or after sign up
For mobile applications when it is good to show the app intro onboarding(slider with app features). I have seen some mobile apps showing app intro before signup process and most after. Which is most ...
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bottom sheet dialog or complete screen for new task
I am developing something similar to a task app.
For new task screens there are two approaches to go with
Bottom sheet dialog like in Google Tasks, Todoist
Complete screen with items laid out ...
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What is the point of fullscreen keyboard on Android?
On Android, when using landscape mode, certain apps override some user settings and "force" the keyboard to go fullscreen (see first screenshot - WhatsApp app with an Android fullscreen keyboard). The ...
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Is there a standard for capitalization of Android app menuitems?
For menuitems in Android apps, is there a standard for capitalizing (or not capitalizing) each word within each menuitem?
For example:
Open
View log
Exit
versus:
Open
View Log
Exit
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Designing edit profile screen
I am designing edit profile screen for android mobile app have several fields (profile pic, full name, username, intro, career, interests and etc) to filled out by the user.
Possible user flows
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Improve elements position [closed]
I'm designing an android app and the only elements I have are a text and two buttons, with a large white background. I would you set these elements to improve the user experience? This is what I've ...
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Point of opening bottom sheet when overflow menu was clicked?
I was wondering what's the point of opening modal bottom sheet when overflow menu is clicked? Look at this : Modal bottom sheet behavior
Because user have to reach the top of the screen to click the ...
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How should I deal with an Android permission who is only useful in my app just to prevent an user from cheating and that looks out of place?
For my app I'm asking for an Android permission that allows to set some things to prevent the user from being able to cheat in some things related to my app.
Problem is that it's a permission that ...
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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 elements,...
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Best practice for editing list items
I am designing a screen where the user can add products to a list. Now if a user decides that the quantity of an item on the list needs to be changed, or an item needs to be removed, what would be the ...
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Will users know a CardView is clickable?
I am working on a personal project to sharpen my mobile development and UX skills and ran into a small UX dilemma.
Each CardView contains some data and a start button that, when pressed, will take ...
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Asking for permissions to access contacts Android and IOS on native apps
Hi wondering if someone can answer this...
Is it necessary to ask the user for permission before accessing a list of contacts on a native app.. see attached image for context.
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How do you approach orientation in iOS and Android?
To anyone who has participated in the creation of a mobile app I have a question:
Was it designed/planned for both portrait and landscape?
If not:
Why?
Did you discuss this with your team?
What was ...
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Possible ways to show some multilevel choices for a multiplatform application
I have an application running on 3 platforms: Windows, Android, Linux. While the native part is practically the same, the UI part is obviously different - WPF on Windows, xml/layout based UI on ...
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Explicit vs Implicit save. Differences between Android and iOS expectations
Our app makes use of a 'Shopping Cart' type metaphor, in which users can select from a variety of items, and then confirm or remove all these items at once. We'll call this explicit save.
The ...
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Good icon for the word "practice"? [closed]
I am creating a sports app where the users can track their practice for a specific aspect of the game. In my menu, I'd like an icon next to it to convey its meaning (and I have an icon for every other ...
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Screen size to design for Android and iOS React Native App?
I am designing a mobile app (UI/UX Design) for a client that will be developed using React Native. What screen size should I start with? Do I need to design 2 different apps for this?
I have been ...
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What are the pros and cons of using 2 fonts on a single page/throughout an application?
As a very relatable example, we have Android OS (since which version I do not remember) using 2 fonts, one for headlines and one for the rest of the text.
As in the image, we can see that it uses 2 ...
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Dynamic tabs or dropdown list for the same view but different data
I have the following scenario and I'm not sure what is the best UX
I'm working on an android app where the user is a parent and they are viewing some data for their children (i.e. it's the same view ...
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should a button be disabled under offline situation or clickable with a notification of offline afterwards
Recently, I encountered a dilemma when designing a button on a mobile app.
Here is the case. On the screen where I place the button, the user is required to fill in some information (but not all ...
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Fit Large Text in a Quizz Layout
I'm trying to make a Quizz section for my app in android
the problem is that it may have large Texts in it and i want to make it easy to read and to answer
i came out with this design
but i think ...
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iPhone to Android - Sections & SubSections navigation
I'm helping porting an iPhone design to Android. My background is Android developer, so I'm trying to create the best possible experience for Android users, but I'm not a designer.
The first problem ...
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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
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Account --
\___ Login
On iPhone, I'm using a grouped table view:...
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Does not making the exact same behavior in one Android API version look too unprofessional? [closed]
I've problems with implementing a certain behavior in an app I'm creating, exactly when this app is run with Android API 28 (the last one by the moment). Being able to implement it nicely in all the ...
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Spinner is to Android, as "____" is to iOS?
In Android, to make a selection from a list of predefined options, we'd use the Spinner element seen below. What is the best approach to replicating this on iOS?
The iOS SDK offers pickers, segmented ...
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Material: Hamburger Menu and Navigation
We're currently thinking about our hamburger menu and the navigation in our app. Here's an example using the Drive app:
This is the Drive app when opening it from the launcher.
This is the menu, now ...
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How to indicate container is scrollable without scroll bars
In Android I'm trying to work out a way to indicate to the user that a container can be scrolled. I'm not a fan of scroll bars and usually turn them off for all containers but would enable the fading ...
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What is replacement for Android's Floating Button in iOS?
I wanted to build functionality in Android using a floating button, as all the tabs are fixed.
What is the solution for replacing Floating Button in iOS?
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Accessibility guidelines for Mobile Apps
Can you recommend me a guide or book for making apps focused on people with vision problems? Some kind of accessibility guidelines.
I know there are some guidelines in the iOS/Android documentation, ...
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Text input field with multiple options
I have a medical app showing 3 input fields for drug dosage calculation. The middle field has 2 options, either to input the number of drug's ampules (as shown in the image), or to input thenumber of ...
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How to show 2 search possibilities on an Android app bar?
Here, need an advise on some layouts I’m working on:
We have a mobile app (tablet only) used by doctors to access patients registered via a desktop app. Recently, we added biometric registration for ...
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Is there a standard gesture for resetting scale on a pinch-zoom canvas?
I've got an android app with a view of a diagram that can be dragged, rotated and scaled using pinch zoom and other similar gestures. Often times I find that I want to reset back to a canonical view ...
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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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