
I have been looking into user interface designs and patterns for Android. This note describes what I have learned from building a demo app that illustrates theDashboard user interface pattern.The demo app has a main screen with six buttons. Each button takes you to a different section of the app. Each section has a title bar at the top. The title bar tells you where you are and provides actions that are common to all. In this case, there are two action buttons that take you to an About screen and a Search screen. For everything but the main page, there is a link back to the home screen of the app.My example app is derived from the Schedule app that Google came out with for the 2010 Google IO conference. That app has a...