| Scott Main | 50e990c | 2012-06-21 17:14:39 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | page.title=Best Practices |
| Scott Main | 6afeb0e | 2013-04-16 21:05:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | excludeFromSuggestions=true |
| Scott Main | 50e990c | 2012-06-21 17:14:39 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | page.landing=true |
| 4 | page.landing.intro=Design and build apps the right way. Learn how to create apps that look great and perform well on as many devices as possible, from phones to tablets and more. |
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| 7 | @jd:body |
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| 9 | <div class="landing-docs"> |
| 10 | |
| 11 | <div class="col-12"> |
| 12 | <h3>Blog Articles</h3> |
| 13 | |
| Scott Main | 65bc1c2 | 2012-07-17 15:36:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/10/improving-app-quality.html"> |
| Scott Main | 50e990c | 2012-06-21 17:14:39 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | <h4>Improving App Quality</h4> |
| 16 | <p>One way of improving your app’s visibility in the ecosystem is by deploying well-targeted |
| 17 | mobile advertising campaigns and cross-app promotions. However, there’s another time-tested method |
| 18 | of fueling the impression-install-ranking cycle: improve the product!</p> |
| 19 | </a> |
| 20 | |
| 21 | <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2012/01/say-goodbye-to-menu-button.html"> |
| 22 | <h4>Say Goodbye to the Menu Button</h4> |
| kmccormick | d0615ed | 2013-03-27 17:18:26 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | <p>As Ice Cream Sandwich rolls out to more devices, it's important that you begin to migrate |
| Scott Main | 50e990c | 2012-06-21 17:14:39 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | your designs to the action bar in order to promote a consistent Android user experience.</p> |
| 25 | </a> |
| 26 | |
| Scott Main | 65bc1c2 | 2012-07-17 15:36:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-tools-for-managing-screen-sizes.html"> |
| Scott Main | 50e990c | 2012-06-21 17:14:39 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | <h4>New Tools For Managing Screen Sizes</h4> |
| 29 | <p>Android 3.2 includes new tools for supporting devices with a wide range of screen sizes. |
| 30 | One important result is better support for a new size of screen; what is typically called a “7-inch” |
| 31 | tablet. This release also offers several new APIs to simplify developers’ work in adjusting to |
| 32 | different screen sizes.</p> |
| 33 | </a> |
| 34 | |
| Scott Main | 65bc1c2 | 2012-07-17 15:36:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 35 | <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/identifying-app-installations.html"> |
| Scott Main | 50e990c | 2012-06-21 17:14:39 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | <h4>Identifying App Installations</h4> |
| 37 | <p>It is very common, and perfectly reasonable, for a developer to want to track individual |
| 38 | installations of their apps. It sounds plausible just to call TelephonyManager.getDeviceId() and use |
| 39 | that value to identify the installation. There are problems with this</p> |
| 40 | </a> |
| 41 | |
| 42 | <a |
| 43 | href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/11/making-android-games-that-play-nice.html"> |
| 44 | <h4>Making Android Games that Play Nice</h4> |
| 45 | <p>Making a game on Android is easy. Making a <em>great</em> game for a mobile, multitasking, |
| 46 | often multi-core, multi-purpose system like Android is trickier. Even the best developers frequently |
| 47 | make mistakes in the way they interact with the Android system and with other applications</p> |
| 48 | </a> |
| 49 | |
| 50 | </div> |
| 51 | |
| 52 | |
| kmccormick | d0615ed | 2013-03-27 17:18:26 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | </div> |