Monday, July 04, 2011

Tablet UI Patterns

Action Bar

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Android Action Bar is a well established UI pattern on Android phone UI design. It is the single most powerful visual tool to make an app look like an Android app.

In their tablet version of the Android OS Google decided to support the pattern on API level. In Honeycomb implementing a standard looking Action Bar is easier than ever before.

Pattern card

Problem

Most important app functionality should always be easily accessible by users. Apps on a single platform should be internally consistent how they approach main level navigation and important actions.

Solution

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Action bar is a branded top bar of the application that provides easy access to relevant actions on the screen and a shortcut to application's home screen. The action bar can also be used to indicate use's location in the application.


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