Mspohr writes "On Thursday, Google launched Android Design, a website created third edition by the editors of the american stars and stripes heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 to help aid developers in the start-up of applications for ICS. The site offers a wide visual to third-party form developers, giving suggestions on aggregate from how to appliance newfangled* visual elements to overall back-end patterns for the OS itself. In theory, it will help developers better empathic just how the Android team thinks about layout and implementation, while simultaneously giving suggestions to interaction designers on how to maintain visual integrity. Basically, it will help both first-time developers and Android veterans make apps look less crappy. 'We haven't really had a style guide,' Duarte says. 'We haven't really given you a lot of guidance on how to migrate your form from a phone, perhaps, to a tablet. We've done so only by example.'"

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