Material Design in Android
- 2. Material Design in Android
- 3. Material design is a comprehensive guide for visual, motion, and interaction design across platforms and devices.
- 4. classic principles of good design with the innovation of technology!
- 5. Android provides the following elements for you to build material design apps: ● A new theme ● New widgets for complex views ● New APIs for custom shadows and animations
- 6. Let’s start with themes!
- 7. There are two Material Theme Dark and Light
- 8. Every Material theme has ● color primary - ActionBar color ● colorPrimaryDark - basically darker color of actionbar ● textcolorprimary ● windowbackground ● navigationbarcolor
- 9. UI Widgets
- 10. RecyclerView RecyclerView is a more advanced and flexible version of ListView.
- 11. RecyclerView ● A layout manager for positioning items ● Default animations for common item operations
- 12. CardView As the name suggests, CardView displays important information in consistent cards!
- 13. CardView To create a card with a shadow, use the android:elevation attribute
- 14. Toolbar There is a new player in the game!
- 15. Good news! Toolbar is fully supported in AppCompat.
- 16. Compatibility Some material design features like the material theme and custom activity transitions are only available on Android 5.0 (API level 21)
- 17. compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.+' compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:21.0.+' compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7: 21.0.+'
- 18. I hope you understand the Material Desing a bit more!