App UI / UX – Part 6

Previously in this series we’ve looked at various ways in which we can improve the experience for our user in terms of both simple aesthetics (making the app look nicer) and improving the controls and navigation through the app. In this final article in the series, we’ll focus on how we can speed the user…

App UI / UX – Part 5

Previously in this series we’ve looked at improving the ActionBar behaviour of our temperature app, but there’s another annoyance that we can fix by tinkering with the ActionBar: When the user performs a bluetooth device discovery scan there is no visual indication that the scan is in progress, and more importantly when the scan completes.…

App UI / UX – Part 3

In the previous article we applied some custom typefaces to our app which displayed temperature and humidity information obtained from a Texas Instruments SensorTag over Bluetooth LE. One disappointing thing was that we were displaying the rather lofty temperature of 27°C (in UK terms, anyway) against a blue background, which rather implies cold rather than…