Material design is a design guide from Google for creating visually appealing applications that incorporate a very colorful graphical appearance and rich animated user experience. The material design guidelines are not specific to mobile but rather serve as a single set of ideas to design rich and highly interactive user experiences across mobile, web-based, and desktop apps.
The overall topic of material design is a complex subject that is outside the scope of this book. In this chapter, we will touch on a few general issues of material design; however, our focus is on those aspects of material design that are specific to Android fragments.
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Google provides several online resources that are helpful in learning more about working with material design. For a high-level look at material design, refer to http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design. To dig deeper into the aspects of material design that are specific to Android, take a look at http://developer.android.com...