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For those who don’t know, Mike & I make a popular widget app for Android called HD Widgets. We’ve spent a lot of time resolving for Android UI fragmentation and have been mostly successful. Recently we made the jump to the latest Android sdk (15). We did this to take advantage of the new features …

Google recently introduced the Android Design site for 4.0 / ICS offering tips and resources for making apps that look and feel like native Google apps. One big benefit is that you can download design resources including stencils, vector art, and icons to make it faster and easier to create stuff. The “All Icons” pack …

Mike and I are launching a new app this week: HD Widgets. This is our first paid app, following up on Cloudskipper, our free music player which has skyrocketed to over 425k installs in just three months. HD Widgets follows our Mixwit formula: take something simple, make it attractive and fun, and make it easy …

While I was working on my first Android app, I found 9-patch (aka 9.png) to be confusing and poorly documented. After a little while, I finally picked up on how it works and decided to throw together something to help others figure it out. Basically, 9-patch uses png transparency to do an advanced form of …

With the release of Cloudskipper coming up next week, I thought this might be a good time to show off some UI pron. Great UI/UX takes time and many iterations, so for UI/UX geeks like me it’s fun to see how it can evolve. Even starting with decent graphics, there’s a lot of tugging and …