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Hands-On Android UI Development

You're reading from   Hands-On Android UI Development Design and develop attractive user interfaces for Android applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788475051
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jason Morris Jason Morris
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating Android Layouts 2. Designing Form Screens FREE CHAPTER 3. Taking Actions 4. Composing User Interfaces 5. Binding Data to Widgets 6. Storing and Retrieving Data 7. Creating Overview Screens 8. Designing Material Layouts 9. Navigating Effectively 10. Making Overviews Even Better 11. Polishing Your Design 12. Customizing Widgets and Layouts 13. Activity Lifecycle
14. Test Your Knowledge Answers

Exploring form screens

While not the most glamorous component of an application's user experience, form screens are a long-time staple of software. A form screen can be defined as any screen where the user is expected to explicitly enter or change data, as opposed to viewing or navigating it. Good examples of form screens are login screens, edit profile screens, or the add contact screen from a phonebook app. Over the years, the idea of what constitutes a good form screen has changed, with some people going as far as to shun them completely. However, you can't capture the user's data out of thin air.

The Android standard toolkit provides an excellent and diverse collection of widgets and layout structures to facilitate building excellent forms, and in Material Design applications, form screens can often double as a view screen (what will usually be a read-only version...

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Hands-On Android UI Development
Published in: Nov 2017
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788475051
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