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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)

Summary


Representing data in lists and grids is a powerful technique that makes up a large part of many applications, and the layouts and views provided by the design and support libraries allow us to create the clean and simple layouts associated with Material Design.

CardView lies at the heart of many successful material layouts, and is one of the most useful and recognizable material views, allowing us to present content in an intuitive manner.

One of the things Material Design is best known for is animation. Not only does does this make our apps look fantastic, but can also be very functional and instructional, giving the user a clearer sense of application flow and purpose, and this is what we will be tackling in the next chapter.