This project is part of the Udacity Android Developer Nanodegree under the name - Project P5: Make Your App Material.
In this project, I redesigned an app to follow the Material Design guidelines and translate a set of static design mocks to a living and breathing app.
This project gave me the opportunity to improve an app’s design, a vital skill for building apps users would love. It also would replicate a common developer task of updating and changing an app's design as new standards are released.
Through this project, I did:
- Understood the fundamentals of Android design.
- Applied Material Design guidelines to an mobile application.
- Separated an interface into surfaces.
- Effectively used transitions and motion.
- App uses the Design Support library and its provided widget types (
FloatingActionButton
,AppBarLayout
,SnackBar
, etc). - App uses
CoordinatorLayout
for the main Activity. - App theme extends from
AppCompat
. - App uses an
AppBar
and associatedToolbars
. - App provides a Floating Action Button for the most common action(s).
- App properly specifies elevations for app bars, FABs, and other elements specified in the Material Design specification.
- App has a consistent color theme defined in
styles.xml
. Color theme does not impact usability of the app. - App provides sufficient space between text and surrounding elements.
- App uses images that are high quality, specific, and full bleed.
- App uses fonts that are either the Android defaults, are complementary, and aren't otherwise distracting.
- App conforms to common standards found in the Android Nanodegree General Project Guidelines.
- Module build.gradle
android {
compileSdkVersion 25
buildToolsVersion "25.0.2"
defaultConfig {
minSdkVersion 21
targetSdkVersion 25
}
}
dependencies {
compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:25.3.1'
compile 'com.android.support:support-v13:25.3.1'
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.3.1'
compile 'com.android.support:palette-v7:25.3.1'
compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:25.3.1'
compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:25.3.1'
compile 'com.android.support:design:25.3.1'
compile 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:3.1.2'
compile files('libs/volley.jar')
}