Udacity Android Nanodegree: Project 5
In this project, you will redesign an app to follow the Material Design guidelines and translate a set of static design mocks to a living and breathing app.
This project gives you an opportunity to improve an app’s design, a vital skill for building apps users will love. It also replicates a common developer task of updating and changing an app's design as new standards are released.
Through this project, you will:
- Understand the fundamentals of Android design.
- Apply Material Design guidelines to an mobile application.
- Separate an interface into surfaces.
- Effectively use transitions and motion.
- Lyla says “This app is starting to shape up but it feels a bit off in quite a few places. I can't put finger on it but it feels odd.”
- Jay says “Is the text supposed to be so wonky and unreadable? It is not accessible to those of us without perfect vision."
- Kagure says “The color scheme is really sad and I shouldn't feel sad.”
- App uses the Design Support library and its provided widget types (FloatingActionButton, AppBarLayout, SnackBar, etc).
- App uses CoordinatorLayout for the main activity.
- App theme extends from AppCompat.
- App uses an app bar and associated toolbars.
- App provides a Floating Action Button (FAB) for the most common action(s).
- App properly specifies elevations for app bars, FABs, and other elements specified in the Material Design specification.
- App provides sufficient space between text and surrounding elements.
- App has a consistent color theme defined in styles.xml. Color theme does not impact usability of the app.
- App uses images that are high quality, specific, and full bleed.
- App uses fonts that are either the Android defaults, are complementary, and aren't otherwise distracting.
- App conforms to common standards found in the Android Nanodegree General Project Guidelines
