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Vincent Tsao

Action bar | Android Interaction Patterns | - 1 views

  • The action bar: is located at the top of the screen to support navigation and highlight important functionalities replaces the title bar (which is often included into it) is best used for actions across your app, like search, refresh and compose can provide a quick link to app homeby tapping the app logo is preferably not contextual, but actions can differ from page to page
  • Use when You want to bring key actions on screen, so they are in sight. You don't want to hide them under the menu-button. The action bar is best used for common actions like search, refresh and compose. When screen real estate is valuable, consider putting actions in the options menu.
Vincent Tsao

simple-quickactions - Project Hosting on Google Code - 2 views

  • This is a demo Android project showing how it's possible to have QuickActions and Popdown menu interface actions like those in the Twitter App.
Vincent Tsao

Android Developers Blog: Twitter for Android: A closer look at Android's evolving UI pa... - 1 views

  • Additionally, you can feel free to use the Search bar selection mechanism as a replacement for tabs since it’s really just a fast pivot on a data set. If you have more than 3 data sets, tabs become problematic since no more than 3 can be onscreen at once. For example, look at how we implemented the Profile switching mechanism below:
  • The good news for developers is you get this highly functional contacts feature for free if users choose to sync contact information into your app
    • Vincent Tsao
       
      使用tab & pop-up window的方式来切换不同的数据集,作为tab的一种替换
  • The good news for developers is you get this highly functional contacts feature for free if users choose to sync contact information into your app. QuickContact for Android provides instant access to a contact's information and communication modes.
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  • QuickActions can be used as a replacement for our traditional dialog invoked by long press.
  • The dashboard pattern serves as a home orientation activity for your users. It is meant to include the categories or features of your application. We recommend including an Action bar on this screen as well. The dashboard can be static or dynamic. For example, in the case of our dashboard for Twitter, we used the goodness of Live Wallpapers introduced in 2.1 to create an animated dashboard complete with real-time trend bubbles and the Twitter bird silhouette.
  • You keep a search history so users upon returning to the search activity can have quick one-button access to previous searches.
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