Material Design for Android App Development provides you with dynamic and variant features for android developers to expertise in development and users to experience the technology at ease and perfection. To create a material design for your app, you first need to apply the material theme to your app and build layouts according to guidelines specified. Widgets can be used for lists and cards. Elevate UI elements using custom shadows. Simple and easy customization of animations in your app. You can add one or more material designs to your app, but make sure the version supports android. With coming of new material designs, update your app to feel the latest innovative changes.

2. Material Design
Material design is the new design language for Android and
defines the visual, motion and interaction design across
platforms and devices. Google has a material design
specification that offers guidelines for using material design for
mobile app development on the platform. These can be used on
Android 5.0 lollipop version on-wards.

3. We discuss 6 elements of material design for
Android app development
1. Material theme
2. Widgets for cards and lists
3. Custom shadows and view clipping
4. Vector drawables
5. Custom animations
6. APIs for custom shadows and animations

4. Material theme
It is the interface style that establishes the look and feel of
views and activities. This element is built into the Lollipop and is
used by the system UI and applications. The user can
dynamically set the system-wide appearance with this element
from their Settings menu.
There are 3 flavours of Material Theme :
● Theme.Material
● Theme.Material.Light
● Theme.Material.Light.DarkActionBar

5. Widgets for cards and lists
There are two new widgets for displaying cards and lists:
● RecyclerView – with multiple layout options and supports high
performance
● CardView – display information inside a card

6. Vector drawables
They are vector graphics the recipe for which is written in an
XML format that can be executed with a series of draw
commands.
Their advantage is that they can be scaled without losing
definition and only one asset file is required for each screen
density.

7. Custom shadows and view
clipping
With custom shadows
and view clipping,
elevation of UI elements
are introduced. Elevation
determines the shadow
cast by each view can
can be set for layouts
defined in DP for any
view.

8. Custom animations
● Curved motion
● View state changes
● State list drawables -Vector
Drawables ,Colour
extraction, Drawable tinting
With material design, animation gives users feedback on
actions and visual continuity to interact with the app. There is
some default animation button and activity transitions which can
be customized or new ones can be created.
There are custom animation APIS for –
● CTouch feedback
● Circular Reveal
● Activity transitionslick to add
Text

9. APIs for custom shadows and
animations
● Respond to touch events
● Hide and show views with
circular reveal
● Animate multiple view
properties with view state
change animations
● Create natural animations
with curved motion
● Add customized activity
transition
● Add animations to state list
drawables
Material Design has new APIS for custom design and shadows.
You can use animation APIs to create custom animations for UI
controls, changing view state and activity transition.
The new APIs allow you to:

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