For questions relating to Google's mobile operating system and applications for it.
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User Interface Thread - Android [closed]
I am studying for an exam in OOP and one of the questions is based on the UI thread in Android. It says:
"Explain the role of the user interface(UI) thread. In Android
programming, explain why ...
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Long press on Android and iOs for Multi-touch apps? [duplicate]
Can it be used the long press? How can we assume the users know it?
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In Android application, when to use View control instead of Tab
I develop a shopping application for one company. First time I design to use Tab to categorize product in shop. But I am not sure Ishould use "View control" instead of "Tab" or not.
Tab and View ...
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What is the best practice approach in android for form input that is related to the current view
I am currently going through the process of designing the experience of my first android app for a company I am involved with. Forgive me if some of the terminology is incorrect; coming from a web ...
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Mobile, “Show Remaining” or “Show All”?
In a mobile screen I have n data items in collection, but I am limited to show first 3 or 4 items from it. For the rest I can put a button below 3rd or 4th item which can lead my user to a popup where ...
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How to prototype a new concept for UI design for mobile devices? [closed]
I am currently developing a new kind of UI for android device and I wanted to know how do I make prototype of it ? since none of the existing UI design tool has support for it. I wanted to include ...
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default android input field
I'be been showing a prototype of my app to a few people and am surprises how many of them don't know where to type.
The main screen has 3 input doelde and a search button
I'm talking about the new ...
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What to display in mobile app web view when the URL won't load
I'm creating an app whose UI is simply a web browser that loads a URL. Let's not argue about why I'm implementing it this way (I already tried that with the higher-ups). It can still do the background ...
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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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screen resolution for android and iPhone design in Photoshop [closed]
For iPhone an Android design, why we set the psd resolution up to 72?
why we aren't using 160 for mdpi and 240 for hdpi so on.
Eg: for iPhone 2x res we are choosing 640 x 960px and and screen ...
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Clear selection in Android
When using standard Android apps (like Gmail) which have multiple items to select, a contextual action bar (CAB) comes up showing a checkmark (tick) and some other information (such as "3 selected").
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Action buttons for mobile — ok to go full width?
Is it acceptable to use full width mobile action buttons, say in the footer, like in the 1st example? It's nice and simple but I'm afraid users might mistake it for a regular footer. The 2nd example ...
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For mobile apps, is it “best” to load data before transitioning screens?
In a mobile application you almost always make some sort of api call to fetch data to populate view elements on a screen. Say I am on a home screen (screen A) and want to transition to a profile ...
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Why icons in mobile phones menu screen are square or rectangles but not circular?
If we see the app page of any phone OS either IOS, Android, Ubuntu, Win8, BADA, etc all have squared icons(rounded cornered, or rectanges).
I would like to know why companies are not trying to use ...
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Navigation Design for GoogleTV
I'm doing some research on ways to navigate on a GoogleTV.
There aren't any design guidelines, but it seems a Left Menu Bar design, like the GTv YouTube app, is common use.
In my opinion it doesn't ...
