Material Design for Android Developers | Make Your Android Apps Material
Details
In this course, you'll learn how to apply the material design principles that define Android's visual language to your apps. We'll start by walking you through Android design fundamentals, then we'll show you how to apply this knowledge to transform design
elements of sample apps. By the end of the course, you'll understand how to create and use material design elements, surfaces, transitions and graphics in your app, across multiple form factors.
What makes an app intuitive or easy to use? What makes it hard or frustrating? Learning the foundations of good design and platform-specific design patterns will help you create better apps for your users.
To get the most out of this course, you should have prior experience developing Android apps. If you lack this experience, please take Developing Android Apps prior to enrolling in this one. We also recommend takingAdvanced Android App Development if you are interested in publishing your app to the Google Play Store.
To follow along with course activities, you must have access to the latest release of Android Studio, and should have access to an Android device for running and testing your apps.
We share code through Github, so you must be familiar with using Github to access code. Take our course onUsing Git and Github if you lack this background.
See the Technology Requirements for using Udacity.
Implement Android design concepts and transform a functional newsreader app using material design techniques.
Outline
Understand and apply the fundamentals of Android design to your app, and experiment with app structures, common navigation patterns and themes.
Lesson 2: SurfacesUnderstand how to use surfaces to structure the hierarchy and interaction of elements in an app.
Lesson 3: Bold Graphic DesignUnderstand and apply branding guidelines -- including key lines, metrics, fonts, typographic scale, color palette and themes/styles.
Lesson 4: Meaningful MotionUnderstand the use of motion in apps, how to use transitions to change app states and properly choreograph the motion in an app.
Lesson 5: Adaptive DesignUnderstand how to refine and test your designs on for use on multiple form factors.
Speaker/s
- Nick Butcher
- Roman Nurik
- James Williams
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