My talk at Barcamp Bangalore 11 about "How to Make Your UI Look Good on Android". I talked about some really bad UI and how you can make avoid making those kind of UI and instead make more mobile and user friendly UI

1. Saurabh Minni
http://100rabh.com

2. Who am I
 Saurabh Minni
 Developer at Intuit India
 Work for TurboTax SnapTax for Android
 Switched to Android after 5 years in
desktop world.
 Developer of
 Auto Complaint Bangalore ( Also for Mumbai)
 Barcamp Bangalore App
 Navkar Mantra and others

3. Where can I be found
 Twitter - @the100rabh
 http://the100rabh.blogspot.com
 http://100rabh.com
 https://market.android.com/developer?p
ub=100rabh

4. Some comments about Android
UI
 Its unpolished compared to iPhone
 Android still very rough
 Android is only for geeks

6. The truth is…
Many of the Android apps
are indeed unpolished

13. Why does it happen ??
 No punishment for bad UI
 Often devs translate their experience
from desktop to mobile
 Lack of support from UX Community

14. What can you do…

16. Skip the menu, embrace
actionbar

17. Avoid menu means, all menus

18. Use Quick Action bar 

19. Tabs are another possible
junkyard

20. View flow to the rescue

21. You tell me whats wrong
here

23. Pull to refresh

24. Endless List

25. Crowd the view and
suffocate

26. Govinda or Amitabh style

27. Use standard buttons
 In case you need help with
buttons, head to Android Asset Studio
http://android-ui-
utils.googlecode.com/hg/asset-
studio/dist/index.html

28. iPhone App Design to
Android
 Result
 An iPhone App running on Android
 Android user feel alienated
 Android user feel being treated 2nd class
citizens
 Finally an app which is super crappy

29. Use gestures where you
can

30. Some things to understand
 Mobile is mobile
 Real estate is costly
 Gestures and interaction styles are
radically different.
 Swipe
 Drag
 Pinch related
 Touch

31. Some 3rd party libraries for you
 http://code.google.com/p/android-wheel/
 http://actionbarsherlock.com/
 https://github.com/pakerfeldt/android-
viewflow
 https://github.com/chrisbanes/Android-
PullToRefresh
 http://commonsware.com/cwac