Project UI Tips

Simple guide for improving the UI for any application including links to tools:

• Catchy Title - Pick a creative single word name for your application
• Launcher Icon - Select a pleasant launcher icon (create a launcher icon and update in manifest)
• Design Guidelines - Review these design cliffnotes for an overview of design guidelines and patterns.
• Finding Icons - Use images, icons and backgrounds for your UIs leveraging resources like
  • IconFinder, iconmonstr, NounProject and Google Image Search to locate relevant assets.
• Style ActionBar - Customize the ActionBar with this generator, copy over the files, and apply the theme.
• Style Views - Customize the View control colors using the Holo Colors Generator
• Fancy Buttons - Customize the buttons using the Button Style Generator
• Progress Bars - Consider adding progress bars whenever you can (or the built-in actionbar progress bar)
• Benchmarking - Check out the following sites for looking at how popular apps look and feel
• Further Resources
  • Review the screen styling and Q&A guide.
  • Review the complete drawables cliffnotes
  • Review the styles and themes cliffnotes
  • Review the extended ActionBar guide for more details about styling.