Android Design V2: Now with stencils

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[This post is by Android designer Alex Faaborg, on behalf of the entire User Experience team. —Tim Bray]

When we initially released Android Design, by far the number one request we received was for us to release stencils as well. The fine folks on the Android User Experience team are pleased today to release some official Android Design stencils for your mockup-creating pleasure.

With these stencils you can now drag and drop your way to beautifully designed Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) applications, with grace and ease. The stencils feature the rich typography, colors, interactive controls, and icons found throughout Ice Cream Sandwich, along with some phone and tablet outlines to frame your meticulously crafted creations.

Currently we have stencils available for those venerable interactive design powerhouses Adobe® Fireworks®, and Omni® OmniGraffle® and we may expand to other applications® in the future. The source files for the various icons and controls are also available, created in Adobe® Photoshop®, and Adobe® Illustrator®. Here are the downloads.

We’ll be updating these stencils over time so, as always, please send in your feedback!

Happy mockup making,
— Your friendly Android Design Droids

Activities and Tasks Design Guidelines

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For our third post in the series of Android UI, we're releasing Activity and Task Design Guidelines. This section of our guidelines aims to help you understand basic concepts of activities and tasks, how they work, and how to enrich the user experience you are creating.

We've packed a lot into this section, which is targeted at designers and developers. You'll see examples that will illustrate how to use our core principles and mechanisms, such as multitasking, activity reuse, intents, and the back stack.

Additionally, we are providing some best practices around our UI patterns such as notifications. For example, we'll show you how to design a notification so that it will take the user to the screen they expect. This behavior needs to be thought out, and doesn't necessarily just happen by default.

With helpful pointers to the API's and this documentation, we look forward to building your understanding of what it means to design and develop an Android UI.

LG Optimus, Android Phone with compact design and Integrated Android Market Application

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Browse around you with LG Optimus and discover all the interesting things you've never before cruising. This is LG Optimus, supported by Wikitude, Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and all your favorite SNS. Life's good Pls Becomes everyday extraordinary.

Push E-mail Capability
Get access to your emails easily, anywhere, anytime with this smartphone. Push E-mail Provide always-on capability, in the which the new e-mail is actively transferred (pushed) as its arrived directly to your mobilephone.

Key Features
* Integrated Android Market Application
* Social Networking Service (SNS) Manager
* Push E-mail Capability
* Micro SD up to 32GB
* 3MP Camera
* Bluetooth
* FM Radio

Basic Specification
Phone Type Card Bar (Touch Screen)
Color 262K TFT 3.0' HVGA Touch (Rasitive)
QWERTY Keyboard Yes
RF Band EDGE, HSDPA 3.6, GSM 900/1800/1900/2100
OS Android OS
Dimension:LxWxD(mm) 109 x 54.5 x 12.9
Weight with Batt. Standard (g) 115.5
Standby Time, Max (hrs) 350 hours
Talk Time (hrs) 4.1
Display LCD TFT 3.0"
External LCD (Pixel) 350x480
Vibration Yes
SIM Toolkit Yes
Data/Fax Yes/No
Battery Capacity (mAh) Li-ion polymer 1500mAh
GPRS/EDGE (class) Yes

Messaging
SMS / EMS / MMS Yes/Yes/Yes
E-Mail Yes
Instant Messaging Yes
Predictive Text Input (T9) Yes

Internet
Wi-Fi Yes
Google Yes

Data Connectivity
USB Yes (2.0)
Micro USB Yes
Bluetooth Yes (2.1 + A2DP)

PIM
Alarm Yes

Advanced Features
3G Yes
Java (version) MIDP 2.0
MIDI (poly) •
Video Camera Yes
Built-In Game Yes
FM Radio Yes
Speaker Phone Yes
Built-In Camera Yes
Camera Resolution (MP) 3MP
Internal Memory 200MB
External Memory MicroSD up to 32 GB (not included)
MP3 Yes
Bluetooth Yes
Touch Screen Yes
Video Recording Yes
3.5 Audio Jack •
Key tone effect •
Ring Tone Yes
USB / PC Sync Yes/Yes
Vibration Yes