When making an application, thinking about its design is often an underestimated but important step. After all, it’s what your users see, so it’s crucial to keep it clean and intuitive (especially for less technical apps). Depending on the nature of your app, it might be a good idea to plan this step ahead instead of implementing it straight away and testing it as you build it. A paper and pencil are good starting points to get the basic layout, but you’ll probably want to get a feel of how your app will really look onscreen before you start implementing your design.
Google provides developers with several resources in an attempt to facilitate app design and planning, but that still involves quite a bit of work to look for each element, resize it, edit it and place it the way you want. A better alternative is offered by XDA Forum Member brownstein in the form of an online design tool. It allows you to choose from a large selection of Android (and iOS) elements, which you can then resize, customize and place on a mobile screen with ease. You can add a status bar, action bar, text, images, buttons and more as you wish.
This tool also comes with many features that make the process more convenient. You can manage the elements’ depth (allowing you to place the keyboard on top of other elements, for example), change any element’s transparency or even duplicate something for easy reuse. Last but not least, you can also manage multiple pages, making it possible to design multiple activities/fragments for your app and easily switch between them.
While it currently isn’t fully translated to English, the interface is intuitive and very easy to use. Visit the B2tsoftware App Design Tool thread now if you’d like to give it a shot, and happy designing!
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