Here's a little something for all you people making lovely apps for Android. If you use a pencil before you start to take your app to the digital realm, then we've made some templates to help you design for some of the Android handsets out there.

There are a whole variety of devices to choose from, with different screen resolutions, and hard or virtual keyboards. We find these help give our sketches a little context when we're presenting them internally or to clients.

The PDF is Letter size (8.5 inches by 11 inches) and the handsets are to scale, so you can use these quite happily for paper prototyping and get a realistic sense of scale. There's a subtle 10x10 grid on the screens to help you with your pencil based needs. If you're short on Letter paper, you can get away with printing them on A4.

If you have any suggestions, comments or improvements, feel free to suggest them here.

All that's left is to snack down on cupcake, donut or eclair, or if you're feeling greedy - all three. Enjoy - and click here for the templates.

These templates were designed and lavishly tooled by Ali Driver, Senior Designer at Future Platforms.

Comments

[Giorgio Venturi]

Hi Tom,

Thank you for sharing this. I can't see the virtual keybord on the templates... Is it the file or my computers?

[Tom Hume]

There's no virtual keyboards in the templates themselves, but some of the devices are devices that use virtual keyboards only. I hope that clarifies things - would you like to see templates with virtual keyboards marked in?

[Giorgio Venturi]

I would display the virtual keyboard, as it impacts on the screen real estate available...

[Etienne]

Once you´re done with stencils, you might want to have a look a Jstinmind prototyper, it ´s a wireframing tool to create dynamic & interactive wireframes and we´ve got Android (Iphone...) widget libraries (with keyboards and everything you need to build great apps;)

[jane]

Thank you!

[Francisco]

A galery for prototyping apps of Android with Visio http://www.tentandote.com/2010/03/02/gallery-for-prototyping-android-applications-en-galeria-para-prototipar-aplicaciones-de-android-es/ ;-)

From Madrid, cordial greetings

[Victor Conesa]

Justinmind has recently launched a widgets library to make interactive mockups for android http://www.justinmind.com/blog/wireframe-interactive-android-apps-android-library/ , they are amazing!

[lendy.lin]

I'v got it, it's so helpful,thanks a lot,Tom

[Randy Moss]

Thanks Tom -- just what I was looking for!

[Nick Litwood]

Thank you for helpful templates, Tom. I highly appreciate your help greatly. Keep up with it!