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Head First Android Development
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Head First Android Development

by Dawn Griffiths, David Griffiths
June 2015
Beginner to intermediate
732 pages
17h 32m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 14. Material Design: Living in a Material World

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With API level 21, Google introduced Material Design.

In this chapter, we’ll look at what Material Design is, and how to make your apps fit in with it. We’ll start by introducing you to card views you can reuse across your app for a consistent look and feel. Then we’ll introduce you to the recycler view, the list view’s flexible friend. Along the way, you’ll see how to create your own adapters, and how to completely change the look of a recycler view with just two lines of code.

Welcome to Material Design

Material Design was launched with API level 21 and it’s intended to give a consistent look and feel to all Android apps. The idea is that a user can switch from a Google app like the Play Store to an app designed by a third-party developer and instantly feel comfortable and know what to do. The Material part of the name comes from Material Design’s visual style, which makes the parts of your interface look like overlapping pieces of material or paper:

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Material Design uses animation and 3D effects likes drop-shadows to make it clear to the user how they can interact with the app. To do this, Material Design includes a set of support libraries that contains different widgets and themes for use in Material Design apps. In this chapter, ...

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