mobile-design-android

mobile-design-android is a skill for Claude Code from ivan-magda/mobile-design-skills. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,959 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An Android interface design guide for building and styling app screens with Android's Material design system, including newer Android 16 patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or redesigning Android screens, layouts, Material components, or complete app interfaces.
Why use it?
It helps avoid generic-looking screens and keeps the interface aligned with Android conventions. It also provides direction for choices such as motion, shapes, and visual style.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the mobile-design-skills plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when creating or redesigning Android screens, layouts, Material components, or complete app interfaces.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ivan-magda/mobile-design-skills/mobile-design-android
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add ivan-magda/mobile-design-skills --skill mobile-design-android
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivan-magda/mobile-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mobile-design-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,959 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00066 $0.01959
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00979
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00392
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00196

Measured 12d ago against content hash 81741852300c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mobile-design-android scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

mobile-design-android/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

This skill targets Android 16+ with Material 3 Expressive. For apps targeting older Android versions, fall back to standard Material 3 guidelines — those patterns are well-covered by general AI knowledge.

This skill guides creation of Android interfaces that feel genuinely designed for the platform — avoiding the generic "Material template" aesthetic that plagues AI-generated mobile UI. Every design decision should demonstrate understanding of Material 3 Expressive and the principles that separate professional apps from amateur ones.

The user provides Android UI requirements: a screen, flow, component, or full app interface. They may include context about purpose, audience, or technical constraints.

Design Thinking

Before generating any UI, commit to a clear design direction:

  • Purpose: What does this screen accomplish? What's the user's emotional state when they arrive here?
  • Personality: Pick a direction — vibrant/energetic, calm/focused, warm/approachable, bold/editorial, minimal/precise, playful/bouncy, industrial/utilitarian. M3 Expressive gives you far more personality tools than old Material — use them.
  • Hero moments: Identify the 1-2 elements on each screen that deserve compound expressiveness — shape morphing + spring animation + emphasized typography + rich color simultaneously. Everything else stays quieter.
  • Differentiation: What makes this feel like a designed app rather than a Material Components catalog demo? What single interaction would a user remember?

CRITICAL: M3 Expressive is not "add bounce to everything." It's a research-backed system where six design tactics — shape variety, rich color, typographic emphasis, strategic containment, fluid spring motion, and component flexibility — work together. The target feel is natural and physical — like pulling a book from a shelf where neighboring books slide slightly, or flicking a notification away and feeling a satisfying haptic rumble. Professional apps deploy these tactics selectively at hero moments. Amateur apps apply them uniformly everywhere.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 67 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 81741852300c

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mobile-design-android is a skill published in the GitHub repository ivan-magda/mobile-design-skills (9 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,959 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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