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January 13, 2012 02:04 am GMT

Android Finally Gets Serious About Its Looks, Launches Official Design Portal

androiddesignTired of looking at Android apps that are decidedly more homely than their iOS counterparts? Google is too and it's finally doing something about it.Today the Android team has launched an official 'Android Design' portal, featuring an extensive guide outlining UI best practices that developers should work to use as they're building their apps. You can find the new site right here.Android's visual shortcomings have been well documented (you can find a video of me discussing this issue with Android's Director of User Experience, Matias Duarte, right here). In the old days (say, when the original Droid launched) it really was often downright ugly and the apps were even worse, with buttons that did unexpected things and UIs that looked generic and amateur.

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