The document discusses best practices for designing the user experience in Android applications. It covers topics like effective navigation, notifications, search functionality, accessibility, and more. The document is split into multiple sections that provide guidance on designing navigation across screens, supporting different device sizes and densities, backward compatibility, and principles for enchanting, simplifying life, and amazing users.

1. Android User Experience
Raihan Ahmed
Software engineer , Mpower Social (present)
Android Team Leader ,DroidBd (Jan 2013-oct 2013)
Senior Programmer, Amadeyr Cloud Limited (Jan 2011-Dec 2012)

2. Section 1 : The Basics
Designing Effective Navigation
Implementing Effective Navigation
Notifying The User
Adding Search Functionality
Designing for Multiple Screens
Creating Custom Views
Creating Backward Compatible Us
Implementing Accessibility
Managing the System UI

3. Designing Effective
Navigation
Planning Screens and Their Relationships
Planning for Multiple Touchscreen Sizes
Providing Descendant and Lateral Navigation
Providing Ancestral and Temporal Navigation
Putting it All Together: Wireframing the Example App

4. Planning Screens and Their
Relationships
Create a Screen List
Diagram Screen Relationships
Go Beyond a Simplistic Design

5. Planning for Multiple
Touchscreen Sizes
Group Screens with Multi-pane Layouts
Design for Multiple Tablet Orientations
Group Screens in the Screen Map

6. Providing Descendant and
Lateral Navigation

7. • Buttons and Simple Targets
Providing Descendant and
Lateral Navigation

8. Providing Descendant and
Lateral Navigation
• Lists, Grids, Carousels, and Stacks

9. Providing Descendant and
Lateral Navigation
• Tabs

10. Providing Descendant and
Lateral Navigation
• Horizontal Paging (Swipe Views)

11. Providing Ancestral and
Temporal Navigation
• Support Temporal Navigation: Back
• Provide Ancestral Navigation: Up and Home

12. Putting it All Together:
Wireframing the Example App
Choose Patterns
Sketch and Wireframe
Create Digital Wireframes

14. Implementing Effective
Navigation
Creating Swipe Views with Tabs
Creating a Navigation Drawer
Providing Up Navigation
Providing Proper Back Navigation
Implementing Descendant Navigation

15. Notifying The User
Building a Notification
Preserving Navigation when Starting an Activity
Updating Notifications
Using Big View Styles
Displaying Progress in a Notification

16. Adding Search Functionality
Setting up the Search Interface
Storing and Searching for Data
Remaining Backward Compatible

17. Designing for Multiple
Screens
Supporting Different Screen Sizes
Supporting Different Screen Densities
Implementing Adaptive UI Flows

18. Creating Custom Views

19. Creating Backward
Compatible UIs
Creating an Implementation with Older APIs
Using the Version-Aware Component

20. Implementing Accessibility
Developing Accessible Applications
Developing Accessibility Services

21. Managing the System UI
Dimming the System Bars
Hiding the Status Bar
Hiding the Navigation Bar
Responding to UI Visibility Changes

22. Section 2 : Design Principles
Enchant Me
Simplify My Life
Make Me Amazing

23. Enchant Me
Get to know me
Let me make it mine
Delight me in surprising ways
Real objects are more fun than buttons
and menus

24. Simplify My Life
Keep it brief
Decide for me but let me have the final say
Pictures are faster than words
Only show what I need when I need it

25. Simplify My Life
I should always know where I am
Never lose my stuff
If it looks the same, it should act the same
Only interrupt me if it's important

26. Make Me Amazing
Give me tricks that work everywhere
It's not my fault

27. Make Me Amazing
Do the heavy lifting for me
Sprinkle encouragement
Make important things fast

28. Section 3
Advertising without Compromising
User Experience

29. Section 4
How people have done It
right!!!!