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page.title=User Interface Guidelines
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<img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/uiguidelines1.png" alt="" align="right">
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<p>The Android UI team has begun developing guidelines for the interaction and
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visual design of Android applications. Look here for articles that describe
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these guidelines as we release them.</p>
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<dl>
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<dt><a href="{@docRoot}guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design.html">Icon
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Design Guidelines</a> and <a
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href="{@docRoot}shareables/icon_templates-v2.3.zip">Android Icon Templates Pack
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» </a></dt>
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<dd>Your applications need a wide variety of icons, from a launcher icon to
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icons in menus, dialogs, tabs, the status bar, and lists. The Icon Guidelines
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describe each kind of icon in detail, with specifications for the size, color,
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shading, and other details for making all your icons fit in the Android system.
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The Icon Templates Pack is an archive of Photoshop and Illustrator templates and
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filters that make it much simpler to create conforming icons.</dd>
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</dl>
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<dl>
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<dt><a href="{@docRoot}guide/practices/ui_guidelines/widget_design.html">Widget Design Guidelines</a> </dt>
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<dd>A widget displays an application's most important or timely information
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at a glance, on a user's Home screen. These design guidelines describe how to
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design widgets that fit with others on the Home screen. They include links to
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graphics files and templates that will make your designer's life easier.</dd>
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</dl>
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<dl>
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<dt><a href="{@docRoot}guide/practices/ui_guidelines/activity_task_design.html">Activity and Task Design Guidelines</a> </dt>
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<dd>Activities are the basic, independent building blocks of applications.
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As you design your application's UI and feature set, you are free to
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re-use activities from other applications as if they were yours,
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to enrich and extend your application. These guidelines
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describe how activities work, illustrates them with examples, and
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describes important underlying principles and mechanisms, such as
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multitasking, activity reuse, intents, the activity stack, and
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tasks. It covers this all from a high-level design perspective.
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</dd>
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<dt><a href="{@docRoot}guide/practices/ui_guidelines/menu_design.html">Menu Design Guidelines</a> </dt>
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<dd>Android applications make use of Option menus and Context menus
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that enable users to perform operations and navigate to other parts
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of your application or to other applications. These guidelines describe
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the difference between Options and Context menus, how to arrange
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menu items, when to put commands on-screen, and other details about
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menu design.
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</dd>
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</dl>
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