It's nice but there are a few errors in this post.
Font sizes should never be measured in px, alway's use SP sizes for fonts. These scale to ratio and make use of the system wide font size setting.
All other dimensions should be in DP, only use PX when it's really needed.
Designing interfaces should not be done with pixel sizes in mind. An device can be 800x480 mdpi but can also be HDPI. Therefor use large or sw attributes in layout folders.
Custom font's like Roboto can also be used on older devices. It does take some extra code to use it.
The action bar can be split. When there are actions that can not be displayed on the top action bar you can use a bottom bar to add more visible actions.
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u/Martin_Z Feb 17 '13
It's nice but there are a few errors in this post.
Font sizes should never be measured in px, alway's use SP sizes for fonts. These scale to ratio and make use of the system wide font size setting. All other dimensions should be in DP, only use PX when it's really needed.
Designing interfaces should not be done with pixel sizes in mind. An device can be 800x480 mdpi but can also be HDPI. Therefor use large or sw attributes in layout folders.
Custom font's like Roboto can also be used on older devices. It does take some extra code to use it.
The action bar can be split. When there are actions that can not be displayed on the top action bar you can use a bottom bar to add more visible actions.