24Styles And Includes

While your first priority is making your app function well, you also have to pay attention to how it looks and how it feels to use. The app marketplace is huge and you can distinguish your app with a nice UI.

Even if a specialist designs the UI, you will have to implement it. So in this chapter you will become familiar with some tools that you can use to quickly prototype a design on your own. When you do work with a graphic designer, you will know what to ask for, and how to use the resources that they create.

In these two chapters, you will create a television remote control app. However, it will not actually control anything; it is just a playground for practicing using design tools. In this chapter, you will use styles ...

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