How to Use Material Design in Android App?

问题

I've gone to the Android Developer documentation to see how I can use material design, here:

https://developer.android.com/training/material/theme.html

and here:

https://developer.android.com/training/material/get-started.html

Essentially, I would like for someone to summarize how to set up/use material design, because I feel like there is a lot of information on the developer docs, and I can't seem to wrap my mind around it. If you'd rather give me a link to a guide created by someone else, that'd be helpful as well.

I'm also using API level 19 (target SDK version 19) and from what I can see, I'll need to use com.android.support:cardview-v7:21.0.+

I'm also using Android Studio, and not eclipse.

EDIT: I would like to be able to use material design for devices that are not running Android 5.0 Lollipop, because according to the Android distribution data, there are less than 0.1% of devices running Lollipop: Android Distribution Data

回答1:

Install SDK platform of Android 5.0 SDK then update your Support Library and Support Repository to the latest version via the SDK-Manager.

Take a look at this link for creating material app

http://developer.android.com/training/material/index.html

With support libraries, you can provide similar behaviour on older devices like:

Using the Material Theme
Subset of UI widgets like
- EditText
- Spinner
- RadioButton

Also take a look at android design support library.

More information :

https://chris.banes.me/2014/10/17/appcompat-v21/
http://android-developers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/appcompat-v21-material-design-for-pre.html
https://developer.android.com/training/material/compatibility.html

But for using some concepts like FloatingActionButton in your application you can use this library : https://github.com/makovkastar/FloatingActionButton

More libraries available here

https://android-arsenal.com/

回答2:

Use following style with appcompat_v7 support library:

AndroidManifest.xml

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/MyMaterialTheme" >
    ......
</application>

styles.xml

<style name="MyMaterialTheme.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
    <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
    <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>

Here is my demo project for Material Design below 5.0 with Toolbar and Recycler view: MaterialDesign_Part1

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27869167/how-to-use-material-design-in-android-app

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