Material Design Series first--creating Apps with Material design

Creating Apps with Material Design

Material design is a comprehensive guide for visual, motion, and interaction design across platforms and devices. To use material design in your Android apps, follow the guidelines described in the material design specification and use The new components and functionality available on Android 5.0 (API level 21).

This class shows the create material design apps with the following elements:

• The material theme
• Widgets for cards and lists
• Custom Shadows and view clipping
• Vector Drawables
• Custom Animations

This class also teaches what to maintain compatibility with versions of Android earlier than 5.0 (API level) when yo u use material design features in your app.

Lessons

Getting Started

Learn how to update the your app with material design features.

Using The Material Theme

Learn how to apply Material design styles to your app.

Creating Lists and Cards

Learn how to create Lists and Cards with a consistent look and feel Using System widgets.

defining Shadows and Clipping views

Learn how to set elevation for your views to create Custo M shadows and how to clip views.

working with Drawables

Learn how to create vectors drawables and how to tint drawable resource S.

defining Custom animations

Learn how to create Custom animations for views and activity T Ransitions with shared elements.

Maintaining Compatibility

Learn how to maintain compatibility with platform versions earlier than Android 5.0.

Material Design Series first--creating Apps with Material design