Questions tagged [android]
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Using a carousel control in mobile app
Suppose say, in my mobile app, I want to display a list of related recommended products while the user is viewing the main product (e.g. like the way Amazon shows a list of recommended books based on ...
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Bottom Navigation Bar With Floating Action Button
is it a good practise to have both - a bottom navigation bar, and a floating action button above the navigation bar?
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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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Android App - How to indicate existence of unsynchronized data
I have an Android application where the users can create different kinds of content in different screens of the app. All content is synced to the server in a background thread. Normally this happens ...
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Where can you find high resolution images of Android phones?
I'm looking for high res Android phone "shell" to more effectively visualize my Android apps.
For example, the Samsung Galaxy Vibrant:
http://www.samsung.com/us/system/consumer/product/sg/hi/89/...
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Placing small buttons into a busy layout
I'm working on a medical calculator android app. It's design is based on cards as in the image below. My question is : what is the best approach to make the users know these are buttons and can be ...
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Represent the time table UI in Android
I have to desgin an android layout from the web page shown below.
How can I represent the time table UI shown below for an Android layout.
Note that the periods & days are dynamically delivered ...
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Android Action Button On Notification Itself [closed]
Because of Android O's new policies, I can't run a background service while my application isn't running in the foreground.
So, I've to run a foreground service - more specifically, a service with an ...
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How to indicate that a list view can be swiped to reveal controls?
I would like some advice on any approach which is conventionally used for indicating that swiping sideways will reveal buttons.
I need to answer this design issue both for iOS and Android although ...
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What is the best UI component to make user select a number from small range (1-12)?
I'm creating an Android application in which I want user to select a number from 1 to 12 (The standard in which user is studying). For this I've considered a dropdown with numbers 1 to 12 or a ...
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Using the Title in Navigation Bar for a page status
I'm designing an app on iOS & Android. My client wants the title in the Navigation Bar/App Bar to be a status rather than a page title.
Instead of "Registration" he wants to switch between "...
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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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Are there any established patterns for triggering an overpanel on mobile (iOS and Android)?
By default, I'm showing a screen with a particular country selected. To change the country, when the user taps on the text I trigger an overpanel listing the available countries to choose, but it isn'...
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One click order alternative - slide to pay
The mobile application is able to store (securely) credit card details and users can pay small amount for some services with "one click" button (no confirmation).
There is a chance users click it ...
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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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When should I "punish" a cheating user?
Long story short, I've an app that for seeing a certain result it may take let's say an average of 5 or 6 weeks, maybe even more, when it's achieved I've to check some things so to make sure that the ...
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Design for row of list of absences
I have to create a list of absences, for a mobile application in android, each row has the following data:
Absence number (Example: N°1, N°2, N°3 ...)
Date (Example: June 28, March 17, October 9 ...)
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How to achieve quick navigation, for scrollable horizontal tabs on Android mobile devices
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Labels is quite a common feature, in note taking app, for categorizing notes.
Most of the note taking app in the markets, will place labels selection in hamburger navigation bar. For ...
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Why do most Android applications place the navigation bar icon (hamburger menu icon) inside the search bar?
Apps like Play store and several other do this. They seem deeply flawed in their design. Since the hamburger menu has nothing to do with search, why is it designed in such a way?
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Can we use Airbnb Cereal font within android app for free? [closed]
I'm newbie on ux stackexchange community so , pardon me if it's wrong place to ask my question .
Currently I'm developing an Android application & I really like UI/UX of Airbnb so , I'm trying to ...
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Hamburger menu or back button on Android?
Should I display hamburger menu icon (in the place of the navigation icon on the top App bar) on every screen that comes directly from the navigation drawer on Android or should it be the back button?
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How to best show an activity state transition adhering to google's material design component framework?
I have an application which consist of three views for an activity. A list View, A chat view. Every activity has a status , which a a user can either mark completed, pending
Example of list view: ...
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How should an Android permission that looks fishy for the app but without which it's impossible to obtain a certain needed behavior be handled?
To be honest, I'm not 100% sure if the ways to achieve that behavior only are possible through that permission, or even if there's some workaround of that behavior, but I'm almost sure so I'm posting.
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Is it okay to put a minimum delay on UI changes?
I’ve been writing mobile and web applications for a while. I mainly use async tasks, two way data binding etc. I’m updating / changing UI as data arrives from server or internal services. I have a ...
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Is there an alternative design pattern for the autocomplete UI interaction [closed]
I have a form in android mobile app which has 3 nested autocomplete each one will depends on the previous one for its value. But the customer wants something better than autocomplete. Since there are ...
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Some stats about social networks used by iOS/Android users?
Are there some info and statistics about the social networks used by iOS / Androis users?
If my app will be present in App Store and Google Play, I'd like to distinguish the login methods, the social ...
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Most intuitive way to indicate swipe gestures
Right now I have a ViewPager with two different Fragments, and I currently indicate to swipe left and right with two chevrons. However, someone might mistake those icons for buttons, and I would like ...
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Would it be a good UX if we removed the top menu altogether when inside an app?
Top Menu - Time and notification space.
We could use that space for better purposes. Whenever the user wants the label he could just swipe down from the top.
The app is for viewing and uploading ...
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What would be the most user-friendly way to request a lost password if remembering it from mail isn't practical?
I'm developing an app in which the user can set a password for it so it has to be entered if the app is desired to be accessed. That password is just for their own use of the application if they wish ...
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Android app: informing users that an image is clickable
I have an Android app. In its help section, there are some images that are clickable and if clicked user can see more information. And there are images that are not clickable.
Other than adding a ...
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Should android app with maps have zoom in/out buttons
I am working on an android app that uses google maps. The app uses google maps to help users select a location.
Should i add buttons for zoom in and zoom out on the map? I find that the default ...
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Exporting files in mobile
We have a responsive page that exports a list into .csv format. For mobile view, what is the optimal way of going about it?
Show the user a notice that exporting is only supported in desktop?
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Is a CardView-based UI the best approach to section rich content? [closed]
Im working on a "smart-home section" that is beeing redesigned at the momment and i'm not quite sure about the approach of our designers.
My question is: Is a CardView based UI the best ...
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Material design: Can you use bottom and top app bar at the same time? What's the relation between them?
I'm currently designing a B2B app that will have plenty of buttons (on top app bar) that just can't be hidden. Is it possible to transfer some of the buttons from top app bar to bottom app bar, just ...
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Smallest phone screen to design for
I am developing an android app, and I was wondering the smallest screen size I should design for... I covered my bases with horizontal scrolling, but implementing horizontal and vertical scrolling ...
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Better replacement for Android Spinner Buttons?
I always wonder why Andoid has those spinner buttons which, when pressed, have the content of the associated text box hidden by the finger of the user. Users will never know when to finish pressing ...
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What is the name of this element?
I'm trying to find out what the name of the element which asks you to choose which application to open a file in. This is on Android OS.
The element:
Does anyone know the name?
Thanks
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Research around users navigating native app then being redirected to a web page
I'm looking for some research on the following scenario:
users are navigating within a native app - they want to purchase some addons
They press on the get addons button and then they are then ...
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How to show a table with 10+ columns in android [duplicate]
since the android screen is small to show a table with 10+ columns
so, I was wondering what is the best approach to show this kind of table according to material design guidlines
The data from ...
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"You are about to leave..." prompts in mobile apps?
Some native mobile apps present a confirmation prompt when a user action will take them out of the app (e.g. opening a URL out-of-app in the native device browser or tapping on a street address to ...
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Autosuggestion in post creation
I'm designing one specific medical application and got stucked with autosuggestions.
The idea is to write a post and include medical terms in it and do it without tag system.
Should work like this: ...
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Filter icon on Android
Sorry for bugging you with such a simple question, but I'm wondering what your insights and experiences are in the usage of Android's defined filter icon.
Based on my personal experience, there's no ...
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User-friendliness vs. conformity (with an app)
I have two apps:
App #2 reads text files to display 3D objects with specific coordinates (e.g. a sphere, a cube, a pyramide and a cylinder) in a VR environment with each file having its own unique ...
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Android Disclosure Indicator Solution
I developping an Android app based on its iOS twin. In one of our view, we have a list with many information but not necessarily all the information we want. In iOS, they have the right-carret ...
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When to use which navigation in android
I'm planning my app design with material design and they offer good description on navigation:They describe which option with how much content to use.
In general: my choices are either the ...
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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.
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Notifications on iOS vs Android
In a progressive HTML5 Webapp, is it OK for the Android Version to have notifications and the iOS version not?
Seems a bit off, but iOS does not allow notifications for webapps.
Should I use an ...
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Designing for IOS and Android
I am not sure if this is the right stackexchange site to ask this question.
The company that I work for gives us only IOS designs (buildt totally using IOS components. No material design whatsoever). ...
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Login Flow if user is going to order stuff
Given the user has to fill in contact telephone number and address.
If the new customer is going to make an order, the customer has to ask the user to login. After successful login, should the user ...
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Android indicate that user have to fill a field before validate
I'm creating an android application and I got a question about UX.
I got a scrollable activity that will show some informations.
The user can just validate or refuse the activity.
Something like that
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