UI – CS@Worcester https://cs.worcester.edu Worcester State University Computer Science Department Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:56:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 236835116 Have been reading design paradigms for Android Apps http://jamescelona.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/have-been-reading-design-paradigms-for-android-apps/ Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:56:12 +0000 http://jamescelona.wordpress.com/?p=81 ]]> Since I really have never owned an Android phone I don’t know much about their apps.  I spent a while today looking at the difference menu styles and how to design to optimize for certain button layouts.  Some phones have more buttons..stuff like that.  As I was browsing this my reddit feed led me to this link: http://www.androiduipatterns.com/2012/06/emerging-ui-pattern-side-navigation.html which talks about the side style menu, such as Facebook. I can only hope our app isn’t as slow as the Facebook one, though.  The article talks about how, “The side navigation replaces the much criticized dashboard pattern in the apps.”  I think it would be a cool implemented on our app.

On a side note, I think I need to find supplemental methods of learning Java/XML the Android way.  I don’t mind the new Boston but sometimes when he talks about stuff in Java that has been burned in my brain for life gets me distracted.

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