Android UI Design Patterns at Droidcon Paris 2013

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UI Design Patterns DROIDCON - 17/06/2013 in practice Android

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@Mathieu_Calba http://bit.ly/11FFK9z http://bit.ly/Y7wFiU

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What is a Design Pattern ?

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What is a UI Design Pattern ?

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What is a Android UI Design Pattern ?

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Why should you use them ? The best solution to solve your problem Mental Model Homogeneity Libraries Do not reinvent the wheel

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Why should not you use them ? Trendy solution To solve a nonexistant problem Copy a competitor

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What is the best way to learn ? Practice

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YANA IT News Website News Briefs Tests Reports Accounts Categories Favorites Yet Another News Application

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Identify the Minimal Viable Product Article’s Consultation V1 Community V2

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Articles List About Article Details Login Account Create Home Comments V1 V2 Organization

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How does the user ﬁnd its way through the application ? ActionBar

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Why you should use it Locate / Navigate Contextual Actions Branding

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Why you should not use it Immersion in a universe Maximizing space for content

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Variations Split Contextual

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How to implement it ? SDK since API level 11 ActionBarSherlock from Jake Wharton - Backport to API Level 7 http://actionbarsherlock.com/ http://developer.android.com/ guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html

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https://github.com/MathieuCalba/android-ui-design-pattern/tree/step-1

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Navigation ? Categories Kind of articles (News, Briefs...)

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Dashboard • Slowing the access to information • Access to 6 to 9 sections • Landing Page

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Menu Drawer • Responsive • Dynamic • Quick access • Not easy to discover / use Usefull when there is a complex navigation aka Fly In App Menu or Sliding Menu... https://speakerdeck.com/cyrilmottier/the-ﬂy-in- app-menu-for-designers-and-developers Cyril Mottier’s slides

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ActionBar’s Spinner • Easy access • Filter or tab substitute to gain screen space • Standard • Can be confusing if used with 2 kind of data (like changing account and categories) http://developer.android.com/guide/ topics/ui/actionbar.html#Dropdown Technically :

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Tabs • Simple • Quick access 5 Sections/Categories max • Not very extensible

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Variation Scrollable Sliding

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How to implement it ? SDK with ActionBar API since API Level 11 ViewPagerIndicator from Jake Wharton - Different Styles from API Level 7 http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html#Tabs http://viewpagerindicator.com/ PagerSlidingTabStrip from Andreas Stuetz - Play Store style from API Level 8 https://github.com/astuetz/PagerSlidingTabStrip

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Solution ? Spinner for categories Tabs for article kinds

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https://github.com/MathieuCalba/android-ui-design-pattern/tree/step-2

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Article details Fast article switch ViewPager Read mode ActionBar hiding

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https://github.com/MathieuCalba/android-ui-design-pattern/tree/step-4

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Basic ﬁnished version

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Additional features

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Notifying the user No internet connectivity No data Loading

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Dialog • Never read • Force user interaction • Interrupt the user For irreversible actions Technically ? SDK : http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html

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Toast • Customizable • No user interaction • Not intrusive • Not contextual (with a screen) Technically ? SDK : http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notiﬁers/toasts.html

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• Contextual to screen • Basic styles with different levels of importance Based on Toast Deﬁned par Cyril Mottier Crouton Technically ? Library by Benjamin Weiss : https://github.com/keyboardsurfer/Crouton

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Basic style Many extended styles Big Text Inbox Big Image Possibility to add actions System Notifications & Technically : http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/notifications.html

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• Select an article on the left list • There is no favorite items yet First use Empty View

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Error(s) Empty View • Allow to retry the download • No internet connectivity

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https://github.com/MathieuCalba/android-ui-design-pattern/tree/step-5

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Tablet adaptation

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How to adapt the design to screen diversity ?

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How to do it ?

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Small Normal Large XLarge 426 x 320 dp 470 x 320 dp 640 x 480 dp 960 x 720 dp

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sw320 dp sw600 dp sw720 dp The Responsive Design Android way Gathering by bucket

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How to adapt it ?

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View re-use

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View re-organization

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Content re-organization

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For YANA ?

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https://github.com/MathieuCalba/android-ui-design-pattern/tree/step-6

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Conclusion

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Identify the problem

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Identify possible solutions

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Weigh and

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Choose the right Design Pattern to be consistent with the platform and the app

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Use Android SDK and existing libraries !

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Thanks/Credits • Cyril Mottier for Photoshop templates for screenshots and other blog posts http://android.cyrilmottier.com/ • Juhani Lehtimaëki - Book Smashing Android UI • Kirill Grouchnikov - http://www.pushing-pixels.org/ • Guillaume Berry for up/down icons • YANA - Code available on GitHub : https://github.com/ MathieuCalba/android-ui-design-pattern

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Questions ? @Mathieu_Calba