| page.title=User Interface Guidelines |
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| <p>The Android UI team has begun developing guidelines for the interaction and |
| visual design of Android applications. Look here for articles that describe |
| these guidelines as we release them.</p> |
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| <dl> |
| <dt><a href="{@docRoot}guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design.html">Icon |
| Design Guidelines</a> and <a |
| href="{@docRoot}shareables/icon_templates-v2.3.zip">Android Icon Templates Pack |
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| <dd>Your applications need a wide variety of icons, from a launcher icon to |
| icons in menus, dialogs, tabs, the status bar, and lists. The Icon Guidelines |
| describe each kind of icon in detail, with specifications for the size, color, |
| shading, and other details for making all your icons fit in the Android system. |
| The Icon Templates Pack is an archive of Photoshop and Illustrator templates and |
| filters that make it much simpler to create conforming icons.</dd> |
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| <dt><a href="{@docRoot}guide/practices/ui_guidelines/widget_design.html">Widget Design Guidelines</a> </dt> |
| <dd>A widget displays an application's most important or timely information |
| at a glance, on a user's Home screen. These design guidelines describe how to |
| design widgets that fit with others on the Home screen. They include links to |
| graphics files and templates that will make your designer's life easier.</dd> |
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| <dt><a href="{@docRoot}guide/practices/ui_guidelines/activity_task_design.html">Activity and Task Design Guidelines</a> </dt> |
| <dd>Activities are the basic, independent building blocks of applications. |
| As you design your application's UI and feature set, you are free to |
| re-use activities from other applications as if they were yours, |
| to enrich and extend your application. These guidelines |
| describe how activities work, illustrates them with examples, and |
| describes important underlying principles and mechanisms, such as |
| multitasking, activity reuse, intents, the activity stack, and |
| tasks. It covers this all from a high-level design perspective. |
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| <dt><a href="{@docRoot}guide/practices/ui_guidelines/menu_design.html">Menu Design Guidelines</a> </dt> |
| <dd>Android applications make use of Option menus and Context menus |
| that enable users to perform operations and navigate to other parts |
| of your application or to other applications. These guidelines describe |
| the difference between Options and Context menus, how to arrange |
| menu items, when to put commands on-screen, and other details about |
| menu design. |
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