Google unveiled Material design last year, and it has inevitably created a great buzz among the designers' community, including both web and mobile designers across the globe. Today, you can observe many mobile and web applications are steadily deploying this design approach and overhauling their UI designs.Material design undoubtedly offers a refined and best approach to create a modern UI design. It embraces polished design principles that have been comprehensively described by Google in its Material Design Specification. You can easily learn all the key fundamentals through the documentatio...

Having a mobile app for your business is the latest trend. Every business, large or small is aiming for developing a mobile app to attract customers and boost the sales. Products or services offered by the business do not matter in this case.  The main purpose is to keep your users updated and engaged. An app is a perfect tool for generating new customers too.The statistics reveals that numbers of mobile internet users are more than the desktop users. It clearly means that businesses must target mobile users for increasing actual sales. Developing attractive apps is the convenient way of ...

   It is no secret that we use mobile applications everyday but we don't know how to use them optimally. As a result, we face plenty of problems with our mobile phones as well as the installed applications. Here are some best practices you can follow to avoid to any mobile phone and application anomalies. Over the past several years, smartphones have started to dominate the technology scene.  These phones have installed mobile applications installed that can complete a variety of tasks.  It is commonly known that people rely on mobile applications regularly in ord...

This tutorial assumes that you already have an activity and are using an XML layout.Open the layout XML and add the button element.  Assign an ID with the “@+id” operator.  The + tells Android to generate an ID for this element so that you can reference it in your Java files.This is an example. Your layout and text elements will probably be very different. In this example case, the ID of the button is “close”.<Button android:id="@+id/close" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentBottom="tru...

While in mentioning about Apple, everyone of us will think of the amazing products shipped out by Apple such as iPhone and iPad. We are all impressed by its smooth design and handy user experience. But as a outsider do you know the story behind the amazing design of Apple? Apple has a team of world class designers and they are leading the fashion of design. What's the life in Apple's design team?Ben Williamson from Apple shared one story of him which can give us some hints on what the life is like in Apple's design team. The life there is cool but it also put stringent requirement on the desig...

Nowadays smart phones have plenty of cool features you can get to know without reading the manuals. But do you know there are some useful but less well known features which can ease our life? In this post, we will share with you some cool features on iPhone. If you have an iPhone with, go and get a try.1. Use Google Map as free GPSWhile traveling abroad, you can use Google Maps as a free GPS without an international data plan by making use of it's hidden offline maps feature.You can use this feature by simply zooming to a map area you want offline in the maps app and typing "ok maps" into the ...

Google released the new Android development code for Android 4.4 :KitKat.The new version will bring astonishing user experience for Android users.The interesting thing about the name is that it has the same name as one brand of Nescafe's chocolate wafer. Nescafe has authorized that Google can use this name as their development code. We may guess that the project team or the director was eating Kitkat or like to eat Kitkat while they were brainstorming the new development code, so they came out this one for the new version.Let's look back the previous development codes of Android.1.0：Andro...

According to AllThingsD, Apple might launch its next generation of iPhone on September 10.There is no detailed information about this new iPhone yet, it's also unknown whether it's a cheap one or other kind of versions. But it will equip with iOS 7 and Apple may launch the next generation of Mac OS--Maverick in next few weeks.Since Apple acquired finger print recognition manufacturer AuthenTec with $356 million and it also applied the finger print unlock patent, so the next generation iPhone may come with finger print recognition function....