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  • iPad - Posted by weimenglee 16 weeks 8 hours ago
  • Using the PopoverView in iPad App Development
  • In the previous article, we saw how to develop a new type of application known as the Split View-based application on the iPad. And one of the new views introduced for the iPad is the PopoverView, which you had a quick glimpse of it in action in the previous article. In this article, I will show you how you can use the PopoverView in your iPad application, not just in a Split View-based application. Getting Started with the PopoverView
  • Android - Posted by weimenglee 44 weeks 5 hours ago
  • Understanding User Interface in Android - Part 4: Even More Views
  • In this final installation of the Android Views series of articles, we shall continue our exploration of another category of views - Menu views, and some additional cool views. The views discussed include: Context Menu Options Menu AnalogClock DigitalClock WebView
  • Mobile Design - Posted by weimenglee 48 weeks 2 days ago
  • Understanding User Interface in Android - Part 3: More Views
  • In the previous article, you saw the various basic views such as the TextView, EditText, Button, and how you can use them in your Android applications. In this article, we shall continue our exploration of another three categories of views - Picker views, List views, and Display views. The views discussed include: TimePicker view DatePicker view ListView view Spinner view Gallery view ImageView ImageSwitcher view GridView view
  • Android - Posted by weimenglee 1 year 2 weeks ago
  • Understanding User Interface in Android - Part 2: Views
  • In the previous article on Android UI you saw the components that make up the UI of an Android application. The basic unit of the Android UI is the View. A View represents a widget that has an appearance on the screen. In this article (and the next two), you will learn about the various common views that you would likely use in your journey of Android development. In particular, I have categorized the views in this series into the following group: Basic Views - commonly-used views such as TextView, EditText, and Button views
  • Android - Posted by weimenglee 1 year 9 weeks ago
  • Understanding User Interface in Android - Part 1: Layouts
  • So far in my previous few articles on Android I have focused on showing you how to get things done in Android without really spending too much time discussing the visual aspect of Android application development - User Interface design. In this article, and the next, I will walk you through the various elements that make up the UI of an Android application. In this first part of the article, I will discuss the various layouts available in Android to position the various widgets on your screen.
  • Browsers - Posted by bryanrieger 1 year 32 weeks ago
  • Effective Design for Multiple Screen Sizes
  • So you're a designer and have been tasked with the design of a mobile web site. Chances are, unless you're designing for only one device you're quickly going to be faced with a common problem experienced by designers who work with mobile devices; figuring out what screen size to actually design for. For instance:
  • Hosting - Posted by James Pearce 1 year 38 weeks ago
  • A Very Modern Mobile Switching Algorithm - Part II
  • This article follows on from last month's Part I, where we discussed some of the principles of handling mobile users and switching their experiences. If you haven't read it yet please do so before we dive into some of the technical ideas and implementation details.
  • Stylesheets - Posted by paulca 1 year 42 weeks ago
  • Mobile Web Design: Getting to the Point - Part II
  • Following on from part I, I want to put into practice the principles that I isolated by looking at GMail, Twitter and Facebook. I’ll apply the principles to one of the most common of web applications: the online store. I want to look at three typical online store pages and then go through some ideas about how best to apply mobile web design principles to the pages. I'll go through the process of building the site from the ground up... from simple sketches through wireframing and the final design.
  • Browsers - Posted by James Pearce 1 year 43 weeks ago
  • Introducing the new DeviceAtlas Data Explorer
  • We teased you about this a few months ago and we've now finally finished! DeviceAtlas v2.1 offers analytics tools to explore the mobile device information in its database. In the video below, James and Andrea give you a teaser of how it works, and talk through some of the cool new tricks. We're going live next Monday, and we'll announce here when it's available. UPDATE: we've gone live.
  • Mobile Design - Posted by paulca 1 year 44 weeks ago
  • Mobile Web Design: Getting to the Point - Part I
  • This is the first in a two part look at mobile web design. In part 1, I focus on three current 'big guns' of mobile web applications and look at how they solve the problems of mobile web application design by getting to the point. In part 2 I'll get practical and run through a series of steps to design a small sample mobile eCommerce site, applying what was learned in this article.
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