One of my students at ITP is working on a mobile application for the Android platform that will be used under duress and in generally stressful conditions. These situations might include documenting children at a refugee camp, capturing medical information in a remote clinic, or identifying victims after a national disaster. I’d like to use […]
Read more "Mobile Apps under Duress: User Interface Guidelines"I’m ideally looking for someone to correct or enlighten me here, so please do! The basic premise I want to put forward is that user interface components and libraries developed for the Android platform are not as easily reusable as standard Java Swing-based UIs. As opposed to simply linking a JAR file as you would […]
Read more "Android User Interface Code is Not Easily Reusable"I’ve been working on a update to Cruxy that provides both a new look and feel, as well as adds some new much needed features (like a shopping cart). One of my primary goals was to improve the ability for visitors to quickly browse and scan through the listings and artists to find something they […]
Read more "Cruxy: New Look and Features Coming Soon!"Droid Draw Android UI Builder Tool Originally uploaded by nathanialfreitas Droid Draw (available at www.droiddraw.org) is a great tool for rapid prototyping of Google Android user interfaces. While the XML schema that underlies the Android resource description is not *that* complicated, it is good to see that fairly robust drag and drop UI tools are […]
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