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Wednesday, January 16, 13

Designing a Useful and Sexy ProductMiki Setlur@mikisetlur


Looking back...


Be Useful & Sexy


Useful: Select / create intuitive design patterns


Useful: Select / create intuitive design patternsExample: studying android’s action bar and menu patterns


Sexy: Focus aesthetics in the right places


Sexy: Focus aesthetics in the right placesExample: home screen explorations before v4 launch


Useful: Go through the flows


Useful: Go through the flowsExample: prototyping tablet navigation


Sexy: Love for Android-only :)


Sexy: Love for Android-only :)Example: designing scalable, customizable widgets


Sexy: Be clean, crisp and clear


Sexy: Be clean, crisp and clearExample: redesigned note composer


Useful: Think all sizes and orientations


Useful: Think all sizes and orientationsExample: layout change


Useful: Think all sizes and orientations


Useful: Think all sizes and orientationsExample: cues rather than layout change


Useful: Test with real users


Useful: Test with real usersExample: discovering flaws


Useful: Test with real users


Useful: Test with real usersExample: eliminating flaws


Inside EvernoteHemant Garg

[email protected]


Process


• Define the feature objectives and goals

Process



• Architect the feature

Process




• Break into small features

Process




• Break into small features

• Design, Develop & Test

Process


After development


After development

• User Trials


After development

• User Trials

• Beta Release


After development

• User Trials

• Beta Release

• Crash Reports


After development

• User Trials

• Beta Release

• Crash Reports

• Analytics


• Test version upgrades, don’t leave too many logs, write nice blog post about it and push the LIVE button.

• Monitor crash reports, user reviews & analytics.

• 1st weekend is very crucial.

• Beers and bragging

Launch!


OS version Target the mass

Start Building


OS version..


OS version..

• Android Compatibility Library


OS version..


• Reflections


OS version..


• Reflections

• Emulators


Phone sizes

Start Building


Phone sizes...

• Scrollview & Linear Layouts


Phone sizes...• Fragments


Phone processing power and memory- There are many fast selling and popular low end devices.

Its a phoneAfter all its a mobile phone so think about how will your app handle interruptions (incoming call) & poor network connectivity.

Make Android work for you- Use Intents to use functionalities from other apps.- Use content providers to get information from OS.

It’s a phone


Give back to Android


Give back to Android

• Open up intents so that other apps can use it. Connect the apps.


Android TipsJess Anders

[email protected]


mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

Fragment Tips

• Fragment.getActivity() (or null)

• FragmentTransactions after onPause()

• Keep track of state of onCreateView and onDestroyView


Caution posting to Handlers

mHandler.post(new Runnable() { public void run() { if (mIsExited) { return; } updateUI(mNote); }});


Expect the user not to save

• Auto-save in Evernote client

• Food auto-save

• Meal Activity


Analyze the problem and worst case scenarios.

◦Calculations Spreadsheet for Food 1.0

• Determine if you can do the work in Java code

• For Food, we came up with a piece-by-piece

approach with BitmapRegionDecoder (2.3+)

• For the multi-shot camera, we reused this, but then had a fallback of a native library to process

the large photos on older devices.

Small Heap & Images


https://docs.google.com/a/evernote.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuJfKRN-CJODdGV6ZFk3VVl4LXZBalo5UUhPZkZOaFE#gid=0

https://docs.google.com/a/evernote.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuJfKRN-CJODdGV6ZFk3VVl4LXZBalo5UUhPZkZOaFE#gid=0

1536 x 1536 ~ 9.2MB3MP - 2046 x 1536 ~ 12.5MB5MP - 2560 x 1920 ~ 19.5MB8MP - 3264 x 2448 ~ 31.8MB

Worst Case all in-memory8MP ~ 41MB

Using this method9.2MB + 1MB*2 = 11.2MB

What we needed for Food 1.0


Resizing in Max Heap...

<activity android:name=".MultiShotCameraActivity" android:process=":photosProcess" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|screenLayout|orientation|screenSize" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen" />


Building EvernoteAhmed El-Helw

@ahmedre


Difficulties

• Many distribution channels

• Multiple branches of development

• Dependencies on other teams' libraries


• Security

• Build History

• Easy Distribution

Goal


Property File

apks

property

Lint, testing, ...

Dependencies

Process


Benefits


The Evernote Platform & Android SDKTy Smith

@tylersmithnet


The Evernote Platform

• The platform ties together all of our products - and it’s available to everybody.

• We build great apps that help you capture and recall important information.

• Third party developers add new and different ways to capture and recall information, and put your Evernote data in context with all of the other services you use.


What’s in that cloud?

• Six billion HTTP requests last month.

• 20 thousand third party developers

• 1.5 billion notes have been created to date

• 380TB of user data

• 40 million registered users


Evernote’s Apps


The Evernote Ecosystem


Remember Everything

• All of your notes live together in context. Search for a meal, and you’ll find related meetings, web clips, and more.

• Every app that adds content to your Evernote account makes every other app smarter.


The Platform Team

• Develop APIs, SDKs, sample code and docs

• Educate developer communities about the Evernote Platform

• Support developers

• Promote great apps to our user base


Hackathons


Android SDK

• Open Source and an open roadmaphttps://github.com/evernote/evernote-sdk-android

• Library Project for easy integration

• Maven Central for dependency management

• OAuth2 for secure authentication

• Thrift for server-client communication


https://github.com/evernote/evernote-sdk-android

https://github.com/evernote/evernote-sdk-android

Android SDK: Authentication

private static final String CONSUMER_KEY = "Your consumer key";private static final String CONSUMER_SECRET = "Your consumer secret";private static final String EVERNOTE_HOST = EvernoteSession.HOST_SANDBOX;private EvernoteSession mEvernoteSession;

@Overridepublic void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main);

mEvernoteSession = EvernoteSession.init(this, CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, EVERNOTE_HOST, null);

if (!mEvernoteSession.isLoggedIn()) mEvernoteSession.authenticate(this);}

@Overridepublic void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) { super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data); if(requestCode == EvernoteSession.REQUEST_CODE_OAUTH && resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) //Success, Update UI when OAuth activity returns result}


Android SDK: Creating a note

/** * This is a network request, call outside of main thread */public void createNote(String title, String content) { Note note = new Note(); note.setTitle(title);

String enmlContent = EvernoteUtil.NOTE_PREFIX + content + EvernoteUtil.NOTE_SUFFIX;

note.setContent(enmlContent); note = mEvernoteSession.createNoteStore().createNote(mEvernoteSession.getAuthToken(), note);}


Intent: Creating a note

public static final String ACTION_NEW_NOTE = "com.evernote.action.CREATE_NEW_NOTE";

public void newNoteWithContent(View view) { String text = "This is a sample text file.\nThis is line two."; String title = "New Note with Content"; Intent intent = new Intent(); intent.setAction(ACTION_NEW_NOTE); // Set the note's title and plaintext content intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TITLE, title); intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, text);

startActivity(intent); }


Intent: Viewing a note

public static final String ACTION_VIEW_NOTE = "com.evernote.action.VIEW_NOTE";

public void viewNote(View view) { String noteGuid = "63781605-3c3d-4e56-90a8-8be5e3ae7eee"; boolean hideTitleBar = true; Intent intent = new Intent(); intent.setAction(ACTION_VIEW_NOTE); intent.putExtra(EXTRA_NOTE_GUID, noteGuid); intent.putExtra(EXTRA_FULL_SCREEN, hideTitleBar); startActivity(intent);}


Thanks!@evernote_dev

http://dev.evernote.com


http://www.evernote.com/about/careers/

http://www.evernote.com/about/careers/

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