How to mimic the Material-design raised button style, even for pre-Lollipop (minus the special effects)?

Question

Google has shown some nice ways that buttons are shown on Lollipop here.

I\'m talking about both the raised and the flat buttons.

How can I mimic them on pre

Answer 1

Add the compat library to your app. (The most current version can be found here.) Do this by adding a dependency within your build.gradle file:

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.3'
}

Declate your apptheme in a styles.xml file located in the values directory:

Set the declared style as the one to use for your application in the manifest.xml file:

In your layouts declare a raised button as follows

Declare a flat button style as follows:

Result on both a 4.4 (a phone) and a 5.0 (a tablet) device:

Details can be found in the official documentation: http://developer.android.com/training/material/theme.html