Pulse News: porting android app to tablet
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This document discusses designing applications for tablets. It covers both human and technical aspects, including using relative layouts, resource folders, and dimensions to support different screen sizes. It emphasizes testing applications thoroughly on all device sizes and API levels. The document also discusses some Honeycomb features like hardware acceleration, action bars, and fragments.
Pulse News: porting android app to tablet
- 1. ALL SIZES FIT ONE A Thrilling Adventure in Application Design for Tablets Monday, September 12, 2011
- 2. ALBERT LAI @albertlai JEAN HSU @jyhsu ANDROID AT PULSE Monday, September 12, 2011
- 3. SHAMELESS PLUG! Monday, September 12, 2011
- 4. PART I e Human Component Monday, September 12, 2011
- 5. WHEN DEVELOPERS SAY SOMETHING IS IMPOSSIBLE... THEY’RE LYING Monday, September 12, 2011
- 6. TABLETS ARE A COMPLETELY NEW EXPERIENCE. DESIGN APPROPRIATELY. Monday, September 12, 2011
- 7. NEVER TRUST THE SYSTEM TO DO A HUMAN’S JOB Monday, September 12, 2011
- 8. DIALOGS CAN KEEP YOUR APP FROM LOOKING SILLY Monday, September 12, 2011
- 9. stretchy SILLY Monday, September 12, 2011
- 10. dialog BETTER! Monday, September 12, 2011
- 11. USERS ROTATE TABLETS. THIS IS A FACT OF LIFE. Monday, September 12, 2011
- 12. THINK OF HANDHELD AND TABLET-STAND STYLE USAGES Monday, September 12, 2011
- 13. THUMB FRIENDLY NAVIGATION Monday, September 12, 2011
- 14. PART II Now for the Technical Stuff Monday, September 12, 2011
- 15. RELATIVE LAYOUTS ARE AN ANDROID DEVELOPER’S BEST FRIEND Monday, September 12, 2011
- 16. ALIGN PARENT TOP ALIGN PARENT LEFT ALIGN PARENT RIGHT CENTER VERTICAL ALIGN PARENT BOTTOM CENTER HORIZONTAL Monday, September 12, 2011
- 17. ALIGN PARENT TOP ALIGN PARENT RIGHT ALIGN PARENT LEFT CENTER VERTICAL ALIGN PARENT BOTTOM CENTER HORIZONTAL Monday, September 12, 2011
- 18. DEFINING A TABLET IS LIKE NAILING JELLO TO A WALL ??? ??? Monday, September 12, 2011
- 19. IS THIS A REALLY BIG PHONE? Monday, September 12, 2011
- 20. OR A REALLY SMALL TABLET? Monday, September 12, 2011
- 21. IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE. TAKE THESE RESOURCE FOLDERS large, xlarge mdpi, hdpi, xhdpi Monday, September 12, 2011
- 22. values/theme.xml <style name="ConditionalDialog" parent="@android:style/Theme.Black"> <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item> </style> Monday, September 12, 2011
- 23. values-xlarge/theme.xml <style name="ConditionalDialog" parent="@android:style/Theme.Dialog"> <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item> </style> Monday, September 12, 2011
- 24. HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT SIZE DEVICE YOU’RE ON IN CODE? Monday, September 12, 2011
- 25. IN YOUR LAYOUT XML FILE: <include layout="@layout/screen_size" /> Monday, September 12, 2011
- 26. layout/theme.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <View xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:id="@+id/screen_size_normal" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:visibility="gone"/> Monday, September 12, 2011
- 27. layout-large/theme.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <View xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:id="@+id/screen_size_large" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:visibility="gone"/> Monday, September 12, 2011
- 28. THERE ARE NO MAGIC NUMBERS. Monday, September 12, 2011
- 29. THERE ARE NO MAGIC NUMBERS. DIMENS.XML INTEGERS.XML Monday, September 12, 2011
- 30. NEVER SCALE UP ASSETS. USERS CAN TELL FROM THE PIXELS. Monday, September 12, 2011
- 31. USE A HELPER CLASS FOR THE TRICKIER DIMENSIONS Monday, September 12, 2011
- 32. screen_width / 3 Monday, September 12, 2011
- 33. PART III Honeycombs Monday, September 12, 2011
- 34. I CAN HAZ FEATURES? Monday, September 12, 2011
- 35. I CAN HAZ FEATURES? mEditor.apply(); since API Level 9 Monday, September 12, 2011
- 36. REFLECTION Method m = SharedPreferences.Editor.class.getMethod("apply"); // ... if (m != null) { m.invoke(mEditor); } else { mEditor.commit(); } Monday, September 12, 2011
- 37. WRAPPER classes not loaded (and verified) until it is called the first time only load the wrapper class if new functionality exists Monday, September 12, 2011
- 38. PART IV Optimizing for the Honeycombs Monday, September 12, 2011
- 39. ONE-LINERS FTW android:targetSdkVersion="11" android:hardwareAccelerated="true" Monday, September 12, 2011
- 40. MENU PLEASE.. pulse before ?? Monday, September 12, 2011
- 41. BYOACTION BARS LEFT-ALIGNED LOGO ACTIONS OVERFLOW Text NO MENU Monday, September 12, 2011
- 42. FRAGMENTS (NOT THE BAD KIND) Monday, September 12, 2011
- 43. PART IV APKs Monday, September 12, 2011
- 44. MULTIPLE APK SUPPORT PHONE TABLET APK APK Monday, September 12, 2011
- 45. ONE APK TO RULE THEM ALL SUPER AWESOME APK Monday, September 12, 2011
- 46. TEST LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT before each release and all the time wherever you can on every device and every api level Monday, September 12, 2011
- 47. BUT DON’T TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT EXPLORE AND CREATE! Monday, September 12, 2011