It was only last month when we first announced the availability of Android Design, Google's new website dedicated to promoting good design practises within Android 4.0.
Since this time, the website has already grown and now features, through popular request, stencils, enabling application designers to mock-up their apps before starting to program. Aside from saving programmers half an hour here and there, many professional app businesses begin their process through the creation of a skeleton design that defines the application layout and look, typically by an artist as opposed to a programmer. Firms will now be able to generate accurate mock-ups for their clients in the earliest stages of development and are more likely to correctly reproduce and make the most out of the Android Design principals.
The stencils are available for Adobe Fireworks and Omni OmniGraffle, with source files from Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, with more formats expected in the near future. Google has committed to updating these stencils over-time, as the OS evolves.
