Recently I’ve been struggling with designing an Android application and generating resources needed for developers to move the project forward and I tell you it’s not so easy. Unlike iPhone, Android runs on multitude of devices which have different parameters and different look & feel. That added, designing single icon for status bar requires you to prepare 12 icons. Why so much? I’ll explain it to you in a while. While making all those bitmaps is a pain thanks to lively community there are many tools that can help you create quickly all the resources.
At the beginning I would like to show you resources that are well known but are extremely important if you want to design good application that goes hand in hand with Android design guidelines (http://developer.android.com/design/index.html) Yeap, that’s the official Android documentation that is of unpreceedent value to designer. It describes all aspects of different devices, screen resolutions, interaction design patterns that should be applied to your application
While there iOS and Android share some common design patterns there are significant differences in how applications should react to users actions. If you would like to familiar with interaction patterns on Android you should surely check out official Android Design documentation talking about interactions or Android Patters for a quick view.
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