My talk at Barcamp Bangalore 11 about "How to Make Your UI Look Good on Android". I talked about some really bad UI and how you can make avoid making those kind of UI and instead make more mobile and user friendly UI
2. Who am I
ο Saurabh Minni
ο Developer at Intuit India
ο Work for TurboTax SnapTax for Android
ο Switched to Android after 5 years in
desktop world.
ο Developer of
ο Auto Complaint Bangalore ( Also for Mumbai)
ο Barcamp Bangalore App
ο Navkar Mantra and others
3. Where can I be found
ο Twitter - @the100rabh
ο http://the100rabh.blogspot.com
ο http://100rabh.com
ο https://market.android.com/developer?p
ub=100rabh
4. Some comments about Android
UI
ο Its unpolished compared to iPhone
ο Android still very rough
ο Android is only for geeks
13. Why does it happen ??
ο No punishment for bad UI
ο Often devs translate their experience
from desktop to mobile
ο Lack of support from UX Community
27. Use standard buttons
ο In case you need help with
buttons, head to Android Asset Studio
http://android-ui-
utils.googlecode.com/hg/asset-
studio/dist/index.html
28. iPhone App Design to
Android
ο Result
ο An iPhone App running on Android
ο Android user feel alienated
ο Android user feel being treated 2nd class
citizens
ο Finally an app which is super crappy
30. Some things to understand
ο Mobile is mobile
ο Real estate is costly
ο Gestures and interaction styles are
radically different.
ο Swipe
ο Drag
ο Pinch related
ο Touch
31. Some 3rd party libraries for you
ο http://code.google.com/p/android-wheel/
ο http://actionbarsherlock.com/
ο https://github.com/pakerfeldt/android-
viewflow
ο https://github.com/chrisbanes/Android-
PullToRefresh
ο http://commonsware.com/cwac