Chapter     8

Android UI Design Concepts: Wire-framing & UI Layout Design Patterns

Now that we’ve covered the different types of new media in Android as well as how to use styles, and also have an understanding of the View, ActionBar, and ViewGroup containers that all Android user interface designs are built on top of, in this eighth chapter, we will take a look at some of the popular Android UI design patterns that are currently in use for Android devices.

We will also take a closer look at how to use the open source Pencil 2.0.5 Wire-framing tool that we downloaded and installed along with some of the other leading open source new media development software back in Chapter 1. Also we take a look at the myriad of design scenarios that can be ...

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