Android App Designing: Easy to Implement Tips and Techniques

Although Android platform provides a plethora of challenges but creating apps on it is way too rewarding at the same time. Android is one platform that is seeing an immense growth in today's time. Below we have mentioned some useful tips and techniques to get your hands on Android app designing.

Make Use of Fonts
Although Android contains two fonts: Roboto and Droid Sans, that are a great fit (especially Roboto) for small screens, but you are not restricted or limited to use only them. Any font (in TTF format) can be packaged within an app.

Emphasize on Brand
Visual designing is yet another factor that should be given huge importance and attention. Some people live in a myth that using recognized UI design patterns will make their apps less distinctive. This isn't true. These apps are way too effective and impressive. Hence, instead of thinking how to use the app, users should appreciate that how effectively the app helped them solve their problem.

Speaking of visuals, the first thing that pops up in our minds is branding. Branding always leads to profits. Some of the amazing branding techniques are: designing icons of brands, widgets, drawables etc. Choice of color and fonts should also be given equal emphasis.

Responsiveness is Another Main Area
In today's time, many sites are going responsive and rightly so. After all, it helps embrace the true power of Web: flexibility. And Android is certainly a platform designed for several screen sizes and even cameras nowadays. By embracing Fragments, adaptive pieces in a layout, you can make an Android app that works well on each and every Android device. This is one of those points where Android gives you an edge on iOS: In the latter, different apps are made for iPads and iPhones.

Moreover, focussing and knowing a bit about your target users and gaining more knowledge Android platform as well might help you avoid premature optimisation and make the most out of Fragments.

Leverage UI Patterns
Instead of taking UI (User-Interface) patterns as constraints, it is preferably better to take them as your friends as they help provide us hints of navigation and interaction. Some great examples UI patterns are: action bar, workspaces, dashboard, ribbon menu etc.

Android Framework
Last but not the least, we will now talk about Android's layout, styles and themes. Android has an amazing visual layout editor which is getting better and better with time. When we talk about framework, Android's framework provides seperate graphic assests and layouts for different screen sizes. Not only this, it even enables you to switch color resources for different platform versions regardless of the screen size.

This article is contributed by ValueCoders, a web development company through which you can hire Android developers, Drupal Developers and Magento Developers. You can also hire iPhone programmers here.

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