Google has released Android Design, new style guidelines for Android. Android Developers can use these guidelines to create apps that look beautiful and are consistent with the OS.

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2. Android Design
Apple’s iPhone has always been famous for its beautiful Apps. Apps that
look great visually are always preferred over Apps without the visual
appeal and simplicity, even when they have exactly same functionality.
Apple and Microsoft has set design guidelines for developers which
allows them to create beautiful apps which are consistent with the OS.
Apple in particular is known to give much emphasis on design.
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4. Android
Design
Android on the other hand has always been on the receiving side of
criticism for not having any design guidelines in place. Android despite
having more than 50% market share of smartphones in the recent
quarter, failed to impress much developers. Most of the Android Apps
looked like, what we can call as ugly. With the launch of Ice Cream
Sandwich, Google tried to improve on it by giving major emphasis on
making Android beautiful and much more user-friendly. But improving
Operating System is only one part of equation, they need to have
beautiful apps as well. A third- party app that does not follow the same
design principles as the OS, sticks out like a sore thumb and spoils the
experience for the entire OS and not just the app.
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Design
Seems like Google has realized this fact and has come up with Android
Design, new style guidelines for Android. Google has launched Android
Design as a subset of the Android Developers site. The site features
exhaustive list of UI guidelines for developers to follow so that their
apps have the same consistent look and feel as the OS. It currently have
information like typography, color palettes, and other stylistic advice, as
well as a breakdown of the components making up the Android UI, will
include more detailed and granular best design practice advice over
time.
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Having said that, Google has only provided these as suggestions instead
of making them mandatory, developers can still create apps without
following these guidelines. Though, I seriously hope that Android app
developers will create and update their apps based on the UI principle
from Android, and help in improving the quality of apps in the Android
Market.
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