App application design on Android Tablet PC

Designers have never had to create a user experience for so many mobile devices as they do today. With the increasing number of Tablet PCs, we have entered the post-PC era. Companies are trying to provide users with a high quality user experience to gain their attention. Designing a successful Android application requires not only a great idea to motivate users to download, use and save, but also a natural, smooth and intuitive user experience.

The following content helps designers understand the interaction principles and main elements of the ipad's iOS and Android's 3.x "honeycomb" system, so they can better familiarize themselves with the design of Android tablet applications. In addition, we can take a look at Android design patterns and layout strategies, and share some of the good Android tablet application design cases.

While Android 2.x apps on smartphones can also be used on tablets, Android3.0 's honeycomb system is designed specifically for Tablet PCs. Android promises to embed honeycomb systems into smartphones in the future so they can be designed and built on different sizes of screens.

Most of us have given the ipad the "first time" for the tablet, so it's better to start with the old love PK and compare the user interface of the two Tablet PCs. By this comparison, we can comb the understanding of the tablet and focus on the main differences between the two PCs to meet the unique needs of Android users, which can help us work more efficiently and smoothly when we convert an existing application on the ipad onto an Android computer.

Just make it look like an ipad?

Although Android's tablet and ipad have a lot in common with the user experience (button gestures, app icons, modal expressions, etc.), designers should be aware of their differences before making presets and drawing screens.

Size and orientation of the screen

The biggest difference between the two platforms is the dimensions, the ipad's interface is 768*1024 pixels, and its default display is portrait display.

And for Android, things are a little bit more complicated. Because Android has a lot of device manufacturers, its tablet screen size is 7 inches, 10 inches, and some of the non-mainstream dimensions (the size of which refers to the diagonal length). However, the size of 10 inches or so mostly.

We convert this dimension to pixels. On a 10-inch screen, 1280*752 pixels can form a good layout baseline (excluding system columns), while Android's default display orientation is horizontal. Of course, like the ipad, users can set their own display direction, but the landscape is more popular.

The left image is a vertical view on the 10-inch Android tablet computer, and the right image is on the ipad.

The left image is a horizontal view on a typical 10-inch Android tablet, with the right image on the ipad.