Its nice to see some good design advice for android getting out there. The reputation for poor usability on the platform is I think driven more by designers tre

Its nice to see some good design advice for android getting out there. The reputation for poor usability on the platform is I think driven more by designers treating it as a secondary platform than it is android being difficult to create good ui with. So many apps on the market feel like poorly thought through iPhone ports with explicit exit functionality, loss of state on exit/resume , soft buttons for things like search and back that exist as hard buttons, and glossy iPhone like interface that feels out of place. The best bit of advice I thought was to actually get a device and spend time using it day to day before designing for it. If you're going to design effectively you have to get into the users shoes a bit and understand their expectations.