September 2010
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Introducing the Android UI Utilities project...
About a month ago, I tweeted a link to a teaser video that showed off an Android icon generation tool I was building. The goal of the tool was to simplify Android icon creation for developers that don’t have access to design resources.
Today, I’m happy to make this and a few other tools available as part of the new Android UI Utilities open source project. Included are the Android...
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Pixel-perfect Android web UIs
Check out Targeting the iPhone 4 Retina Display with CSS3 Media Queries, an article discussing this same topic as it relates to the iPhone 4’s Retina Display.
If you’ve written Android SDK apps recently, you’re probably aware of the framework’s support for multiple screen densities using resource directory qualifiers. That is, you can create icons or button 9-patches...
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Why you don't really want a WYSIWYG layout editor...
DISCLAIMER: I’m on the Android team at Google. The views expressed in this post are mine alone and not those of my employer.
One of the major complaints about Android development is that the layout preview tool in the ADT plugin for Eclipse lacks true WYSIWYG editing capabilities. Critics think that it’s difficult to write layout XML by hand, and that this results in poor user...
February 2010
1 post
“Good design is as little design as possible.”
– Dieter Rams, design chief at Braun, early 1980s