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Learning Material Design

By : Kyle Mew, Nadir Belhaj
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Learning Material Design

By: Kyle Mew, Nadir Belhaj

Overview of this book

Google's Material Design language has taken the web development and design worlds by storm. Now available on many more platforms than Android, Material Design uses color, light, and movements to not only generate beautiful interfaces, but to provide intuitive navigation for the user. Learning Material Design will teach you the fundamental theories of Material Design using code samples to put these theories into practice. Focusing primarily on Android Studio, you’ll create mobile interfaces using the most widely used and powerful material components, such as sliding drawers and floating action buttons. Each section will introduce the relevant Java classes and APIs required to implement these components. With the rules regarding structure, layout, iconography, and typography covered, we then move into animation and transition, possibly Material Design's most powerful concept, allowing complex hierarchies to be displayed simply and stylishly. With all the basic technologies and concepts mastered, the book concludes by showing you how these skills can be applied to other platforms, in particular web apps, using the powerful Polymer library.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

About the Reviewer

Will Haering is a self-taught frontend developer, with significant experience in both web technologies and data processing. He has been designing and developing sites and web apps for 5 years, starting as a freelancer and then switching paths to begin working as a client engineer for Symphony Commerce in San Francisco. Earlier in 2015, he participated in a research project on studying the evidence of gravitational waves. He did this by processing NASA's test data using Julia. In 2014, as a member of the Precision Engineering Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Will developed an audio analysis script with industrial and agricultural applications. He is currently completing his senior year of high school at Phillips Exeter Academy. You can find him online at http://www.wch.io/.