- From www.udacity.com
Material Design for Android Developers
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- 4 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
Lesson 1: Android Design Fundamentals
Understand and apply the fundamentals of Android design to your app, and experiment with app structures, common navigation patterns and themes.Lesson 2: Surfaces
Understand how to use surfaces to structure the hierarchy and interaction of elements in an app.Lesson 3: Bold Graphic Design
Understand and apply branding guidelines -- including key lines, metrics, fonts, typographic scale, color palette and themes/styles.Lesson 4: Meaningful Motion
Understand the use of motion in apps, how to use transitions to change app states and properly choreograph the motion in an app.Lesson 5: Adaptive Design
Understand how to refine and test your designs on for use on multiple form factors.Prerequisite
Instructors
- Nick Butcher - Nick Butcher is a Design Advocate in Google's London office, where he helps designers and developers create sublime mobile apps. He has a passion for mobile technologies, and enjoys spanning the disciplines of design and development.
- Roman Nurik - Roman Nurik is a Design Advocate at Google, focusing on user experience and visual design for Android. Previously, Roman was a developer advocate on Android and Maps. Before Google, he engaged in web design and development work on a variety of independent projects.
Editor
Google is a company founded on 4 September 1998 in the Google garage in Silicon Valley, California, by Larry Page and Sergueï Brin, creators of the Google search engine.
The company made its name primarily through the monopolistic position of its search engine, which faced competition first from AltaVista and then from Yahoo! and Bing. It has since made a number of acquisitions and developments, and today owns a number of noteworthy software products and websites, including YouTube, the Android operating system for mobile phones, and other services such as Google Earth, Google Maps and Google Play.
Platform
Udacity is a for-profit educational organization founded by Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens, and Mike Sokolsky offering massive open online courses (MOOCs). According to Thrun, the origin of the name Udacity comes from the company's desire to be "audacious for you, the student". While it originally focused on offering university-style courses, it now focuses more on vocational courses for professionals.