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Polishing a UI Tips and Tools
Simple guide for improving the UI for any application including links to tools:
- Catchy Title - Pick a creative single word name for your application
- Launcher Icon - Select a pleasant launcher icon (create a launcher icon and update in manifest)
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Finding Icons - Use images, icons and backgrounds for your UIs leveraging resources like
- IconFinder, iconmonstr, NounProject and Google Image Search to locate relevant assets.
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Design Guidelines - Review these design cliffnotes for an overview of design guidelines and patterns.
- Pure Android - Simple guidelines for following Android standards
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Style Generators
- Style ActionBar - Customize the ActionBar with this generator, copy over the files, and apply the theme.
- Style Views - Customize the View control colors using the Holo Colors Generator
- Style Buttons - Customize the buttons using the Button Style Generator
- Benchmarking - Check out the following sites for looking at how popular apps look and feel
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Further Resources
- Review the screen styling FAQ.
- Review the complete drawables cliffnotes
- Review the styles and themes cliffnotes
- Review the extended ActionBar guide for more details about styling.
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