Mobile Design Pattern Gallery | Designing for Android 3.2 & 4.0

Designing for Android 3.2 & 4.0

Theresa

Here are some excellent resources if you are designing for Android Gingerbread or Ice Cream Sandwich.

My Mobile Design Pattern Galleryhas hundreds of screnshots from iOs, Android and other OSs. I also posted a presentation of The Best Android Apps

The Best Android Apps 2012: A Designers Collection

View more presentations from Theresa Neil
After spending months compiling screenshots for the book, I just found this rockin’ Tumblr site with hundreds of screenshots specific to Android, Android Niceties
150 Top Andorid Apps, Editor’s Pick. Note, not all of these have a great UI, but it is definitely worth browsing
As stated, AndroidPttrns is a shameless copy of pttrns.com, the site that catalogs iOS screenshots. Android Pttrns don’t have a lot of material yet, but I’m sure it will grow over time.

Zurb’s excellent OmniGraffle Stencil
Android 4.0 PSD
High Density PSD from Teehan + Lax, June 2011
Stencil for Visio- Nope can’t find one. I’ll say it again, the Visio community needs to get it together and starting making high quality stencils and sharing them. If you know of a Visio stencil for a current version of the Android OS, please comment and share.
Keynotopia for prototyping. I have bought and used this bundle for iPad prototyping and it works well. I haven’t tried it for Android apps yet.
Glypish Icons are really useful for low and high fidelity mockups

Mobile Design Pattern Gallery: UI Patterns for Mobile Applications
Best Android Apps. Keep in mind, best refers to functionality, not best UI design. I pulled the best UI examples from here into my gallery.
Mobile Design & Development by Brian Fling, free book. This has a really good chapter on Mobile IA.
Mobile First by Luke W. This is more focused on mobile web, but should be read by all designers tackling mobile design challenges.

Must Watch, Android 4.0 Design Tips

Android 4.0 UI Design Tips

View more presentations from Justin Lee