Material design in android L developer Preview
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Material Design in Android provides guidelines for visual, motion, and interactive designs across platforms and devices. The Android L Developer Preview introduces new components and features related to material design like a new material theme, widgets for complex views, and APIs for custom shadows and animations. Key elements of material design in Android apps include color palettes, touch feedback animations, activity transitions, and use of the RecyclerView and CardView widgets which support material design out of the box.
Material design in android L developer Preview
- 1. Material Design In Android By Patta jagadeeswara Rao http://www.pcnmtutorials.com
- 2. • Material Designisacomprehensiveguidefordevelopvisual,motionand interactivedesignsinvariousplatformsanddevices. • Android L Developer Preview Provides new components and features regardingmaterialdesign. • Android L Developer Preview provides following features to build materialdesigninyourapplication. • ANewTheme • NewWidgetsForcomplexviews • NewAPIsforCustomShadowsandAnimations.
- 3. • NewAndroidMaterialThemeProvidesFollowingfeatures. • CustomizeColorPaletteToSystemWidget • TouchFeedbackAnimationsforSystemWidgets. • ActivityTransitionanimations. • YoucancustomizeLookandfeelofthematerialthemeaccordingtoyour application. • Youcantintthecolorofactionbarandstatusbarusing Themeattribute. • Youcancustomizecolorpalette, feedbackanimationsandactivity transitionsinyourapplication.
- 4. • TheMaterialThemeisDefinedasgiven: • @android:style/Theme.Material(DarkVersion) • @android:style/Theme.Material.Light(LightVersion) • @android:style/Theme.Material.Light.DarkActionBar. • TheMaterialThemeisavailableinLDeveloperPreviewOnly. • If You are using Material Theme in your application you can customize colorofdefaultThemeisbyusingThemeattribute. • In Material Theme The System Widgets have new design and touch feedbackanimations.
- 6. • The Android Support Library In Android L developer Preview Contains twoNewWidgets.Thoseare • RecyclerView • CardView • TheseTwoWidgetsareusedtoshowcomplexlistsandcardsinyour application. • Thesetwowidgetshavematerialdesignbydefault.
- 7. • RecyclerViewismoreadvanceandflexibleversionofListView. • ThiswidgetisaContainerforlargesetofviewsThatcanberecycledand scrolledveryefficiently.Andchangethelistitemsdynamically. • Youcanalsoflexibilitytodefinecustomlayoutmanagerandanimations forwidget. • TheadapterofRecyclerclassextendsfromRecyclerView.Adapter.
- 8. • Recycler View provides LinearLayoutManager . Which can shows the list itemsineitherhorizontal orverticalfashion. • If you want to create a custom layout. You need to extend the RecyclerView.LayoutMangerclass. • Adding andRemovingofAnimationstolistitemsareenabledbydefaultin RecyclerView. • If you want to customize the animations of list items you need to use setAnimator method inRecyclerView.ItemAnimator class.
- 9. • CardView Extends The FrameLayout Class. The information shows in the cardsareconsistentlookonanyapplication. • CardViewwidgetcanhaveshadowsandroundedcorners. • If you want to create a card with shadow effect. You can use android:elevationattributein CardView. • Someoftheproperitiesof CardVieware: • android:cardCornorRadius • CardView.setRadius • android:cardBackgroundColor
- 10. • The elevation of a view Determines the shadow of that view. Views with higerzvaluescastbiggershadows. • Elevation is also used to crate animations where widgets rise temporarily abovetheviewplane. • The Z value for the view has two components, elevation and translation. TheElevationisastaticcomponent. Thetranslationisusedinanimations. • Thefollowingattributeshowstheshadowtoaview. • android:elevation=“2dp”
- 11. • Animations in material design gives users feedback on actions and provide visualcontinuityasinteractwithyourapp. • Thematerialdesignprovidesomedefaultanimations.Thoseare: • TouchFeedback • RevelEffect • ActivityTransactions • CurvedMotion • ViewStateChanges.