Beautiful Android

Many Android applications are ugly, but not all. How do some developers manage to create beautiful apps that defy expectations?

This is a deep dive into Android UI coding techniques, exploring hard-learned lessons learned while creating Square.

• Dealing with problematic large-mdpi and large-hdpi tablet configurations.
• Creating custom drawables that scale to any size.
• Writing new views and layouts from scratch.
• Recognizing when device independent pixels are not enough.
• Sharing resources across development, beta, and production builds.
• Avoiding image bloat.
• Avoiding color banding and bitmap artifacts.
• Taming transitions between activities.

Android apps can be beautiful. Come to this talk and learn how.