From design delivery to development, easy and efficient!

The release of an excellent digital product is a long process that requires constant adjustment of details , This requires deep communication and cooperation between designers and developers . However, most teams spend a lot of time on simple issues in communication , for example : What is the font ？ What is the spacing ？ How content stretches ？ wait . Usually in the mail 、 Copy values from chat and error lists , It's not efficient . Even because of the wrong assumption at the beginning , As a result, there is still a debate at the last moment of submission . This is the design delivery problem that frustrates team members (The Handoff Problem).

There are many teams that bypass these problems through manpower and overtime , But as user expectations continue to rise , Screen types are increasing , The problem became more and more difficult , We began to rethink how to make it easier for designers and developers 、 Seamlessly collaborate to build digital products . This article will show Material and Android How teams use tools to solve design delivery problems , If you prefer to learn about this article through video , Please click below :

△  From design delivery to development , Relaxed and efficient

• Bilibili Video link

  https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV19f4y1f7ai/

Figma and Android Studio linkage

To solve the problem of design delivery ,Material Design Team and Figma The team worked together .Figma Is a top-notch interface design tool ,Figma Excited to be able to enable a new design to code workflow . We work together to ensure the interconnection between design tools and development tools , By way of Figma The design package in is provided to Android Studio, Create a new workflow , Designed to help teams quickly build interface components .

In the new workflow we defined , The designer starts with Figma Build the interface components used by the product ,Figma Provides a powerful component model , On this basis, we use plug-ins to further add annotations for interaction and data presentation . This set of workflows will eventually create a UI Package, Developers can directly import it as a composable item into Android Studio For use in , And this set UI Package The interface designed by the designer is accurately restored , It enables us to quickly integrate components into code .

△  from Figma To Android Studio New workflow for

Figma Of Frame Will be converted to Compose Layout , Such as color 、 Typesetting 、 Shape and other visual appearance attributes are preserved , And flexible, for example Row and Column The responsive design intent of has also been correctly implemented . Developers can also use Compose The preview function can see the same effect as the design draft , So I can confidently believe that there is no problem with the code implementation of the interface .

When coding a product , Developers often get mad because images and font materials are scattered everywhere in a design file . The way to solve this problem is to combine all the sample images with Google The fonts are all put together , To ensure that you can directly view all the materials in the preview . The set of workflows we define is not just to translate the design directly into the interface implementation , It also conveys the design idea . When we get a UI Package after , It can be used flexibly , Developers can control in the way they want .

Designers and developers can decide how to bind data to interface elements . Text 、 picture 、 Icons and so on will be marked as dynamic elements ,Android Studio Help developers understand what data they need to provide . The same is true of the interaction part , The designer identifies the gestures that each element needs to support , And clearly mark the behavior callback in the interface component , To generate a developer friendly API. The styles in the design will be transformed into the themes used in the code , To ensure that the visual style in the application is completely unified .

△  Dynamically bind data and behavior

We hope that without having to rebuild the wheel , Gives you the flexibility to build any interface . So when designers are Figma Using such as the hover button Material When the component , We guarantee that you will get tangible Material Design Code implementation .

In order to work in a familiar process between teams , We are right. UI Package Management of becomes like managing code , Update the interface in an upgradeable way . When the designer changes the interface , Developers can easily introduce these updates , You don't even need to make changes to the code , Just update 、 verification , Then run it , It's like updating a code base . in addition , The structure of our output code is modular and extensible , Developers can override and combine interface elements to meet requirements , And can decide to customize the granularity , Instead of letting the designer change everything . As shown in the figure below , We can add a special mask , Or replace the whole part with the audio waveform effect .

△  to update UI Package

An eternal truth in software development is , Demand is always changing , and UI Package It provides flexibility for the work of the team , Only a small amount of rework is required to meet changing needs .

summary

Android platform Has a very bright future , Billions of users use your products through a variety of new devices . We believe that the new workflow defined this time can break the isolated island of designers and developers , So that your team can grasp... Faster and easier Android Development opportunities brought by the platform .

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