Android Design. Android User Interface Design: Icon Design. Just as iOS apps should emulate the look and feel of the iOS platform, professional-grade Android applications should be designed to integrate well with the rest of the Android platform.
Today, we diverge slightly from our developer-centric tutorials and provide a basic introduction to designing icons appropriate to the Android platform. The Android development team provides a set of Icon Design Guidelines for application developers and UI designers. We do not feel that a quick Android icon design discussion strays too far off topic. At various industry conferences, the Android team has recommended that Android developers hire professional graphic designers to design their application graphics and icons.
Android User Interface Design: Horizontal View Paging. Perhaps you’ve seen some of the new user interface features available as part of the Android compatibility package.
One such feature, horizontal view paging, allows for easy left and right swipes to load different screens (pages), controlled by a single Activity. This feature has been showcased in several high profile applications like the Android Market application and the Google+ Android client. There are a number of classes in the Android compatibility package that can be used to implement horizontal page swiping behavior in your Android packages. The ViewPager control (android.support.v4.view.ViewPager) provides the horizontal swiping behavior. Create a 3D Flight Simulator App for iOS and Android – Premium. In this tutorial series, we will create a flight simulator application using ShiVa3D Suite.
A flight simulator is an interesting example of 3D programming. In order to build this application, we will cover all the topics necessary for creating 3D games, educational applications, and novelty 3D apps. The simulator built in this series will be deployed and tested on a Motorola Droid with Android 2.2, an iPod Touch with iOS 4.3, and an iPad 2 with iOS 4.3.