Android user interface design

Introduction 
  Audience for this book 
  Organization of this book
  How to use this book
  This book's website  
  Conventions used in this book  

Part I: The basics of Android User Interfaces 
 
1. Android UI and material design  
  A brief history of Android design  
  Material design  
  The Android design website  
  Core principles  
  Standard components  
  Supporting multiple devices  
  Avoiding painful mistakes  
  Summary  

2. Understanding views - The UI building blocks  
  What is a view?  
  Displaying text  
  Displaying images  
  Views for gathering user input  
  Other notable views  
  Listening to events  
  Other listeners  
  Summary  

3. Creating full layouts with view groups and fragments  
  Understanding ViewGroup and the common implementations 
  Encapsulating view logic with fragments  
  The support library  
  Summary  

4. Adding app graphics and resources  
  Introduction to resources in Android  
  Resource qualifiers  
  Understanding density  
  Supported image files  
  Nine-patch images  
  XML drawables  
  Other resources  
  Summary  

Part II: The full design and development process 

5. Starting a new app  
  Design methods  
  Defining goals  
  High-level flow  
  Wireframes  
  Continuing with content pieces  
  Summary  

6. Prototyping and developing the app foundation  
  Organizing into activities and fragments  
  Creating the first prototype  
  Evaluating the first prototype  
  Summary  

7. Designing the visuals  
  Wireframes and graphical design  
  Tools  
  Styles 
  Lighting  
  Colors  
  Ttext considerations  
  Other considerations  
  Designing step-by-step  
  Summary  

8. Applying the design  
  Working with the designer  
  Slicing the graphics assets  
  Themes and styles  
  Breaking comps into views  
  Developing the woodworking app  
  Basic testing across device types 
  Summary  

9. Polishing with animations  
  Purpose of animations  
  View animations  
  Property animations  
  Property animation control  
  ViewPropertyAnimator  
  Animating form errors  
  Animating icons  
  Simple transitions  
  Summary  

Part III: Advanced topics for android user interfaces 

10. Using advanced techniques  
  Identifying jank  
  Using systrace to understand jank  
  Optimizing images  
  Additional performance improvements  
  Hierarchy viewer  
  Custom fonts  
  Complex textViews  
  RecyclerView  
  Summary  

11. Working with the canvas and advanced drawing  
  Creating custom drawables  
  Paint  
  Canvas  
  Working with text  
  Working with images  
  Color filters  
  Shaders  
  Summary  

12. Developing custom views  
  General concepts  
  Measurement  
  Layout  
  Drawing  
  Saving and restoring state  
  Creating a custom view  
  Summary  

13. Handling input and scrolling  
  Touch input  
  Other forms of input  
  Creating a custom view  
  Summary  

Appendix A. Google Play assets  
  Application description  
  The change log  
  Application icon  
  Screenshots  
  Feature graphic  
  Promotional graphic  
  Video (Youtube)  
  Promoting your app  
  Amazon Appstore  

Appendix B. Common task reference  
  Dismissing the software keyboard  
  Using full screen mode  
  Keeping the screen on  
  Determining the device's physical screen size  
  Determining the device's screen size in pixels  
  Determining the device DPI  
  Checking for a network connection  
  Checking if the current thread is the UI thread  
  Custom view attributes  

Index