Hands-on: Preparing Assets for Mobile (Video)

Exporting, organizing, speccing, and sharing assets with some discussion of workflow. Some iOS, but mostly Android with an overview of the platform differences.

0:20 — Resolutions and organization
1:06 — Android export workflow
2:40 — Create a 9 patch
4:44 — Text spec in SP
5:18 — Tinting
5:54 — Use of elevation
6:34 — Platform spec comparison
7:06 — Sharing specs & assets

Links
9 Patch Generator
Sketch measure master
Zeplin
Google I/O 2016, Designer/Developer communications

Going Further with Your Android Workflow

Upon exporting graphics from Sketch you’re left with many resolutions in a single folder. Organizing these resolutions into multiple folders for Android is a pain, so check out this hands-on walkthrough on how to do this with a single executable command.

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