1 page.title=Material Design for Android 2 page.tags=Material,design 3 page.image=images/cards/design-material-for-android_2x.jpg 4 footer.hide=true 5 forcelocalnav=true 6 @jd:body 7 8 <!-- developer docs box --> 9 <a class="notice-developers right" href="{@docRoot}training/material/index.html"> 10 <div> 11 <h3>Developer Docs</h3> 12 <p>Creating Apps with Material Design</p> 13 </div> 14 </a> 15 16 <!-- video box --> 17 <a class="notice-developers-video" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4gmvHyuZzw"> 18 <div> 19 <h3>Video</h3> 20 <p>Introduction to Material Design</p> 21 </div> 22 </a> 23 24 <!-- video box --> 25 <a class="notice-developers-video" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaG_ljfzeUw"> 26 <div> 27 <h3>Video</h3> 28 <p>Paper and Ink: The Materials that Matter</p> 29 </div> 30 </a> 31 32 <!-- video box --> 33 <a class="notice-developers-video" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOcCOBe8PTc"> 34 <div> 35 <h3>Video</h3> 36 <p>Material Design in the Google I/O App</p> 37 </div> 38 </a> 39 40 41 42 <p itemprop="description">Material design is a comprehensive guide for visual, motion, and 43 interaction design across platforms and devices. Android now includes support for 44 material design apps. To use material design in your Android apps, follow the guidelines defined 45 in the <a href="http://www.google.com/design/spec">material design specification</a> and use the 46 new components and functionality available in Android 5.0 (API level 21) and above.</p> 47 48 <p>Android provides the following elements for you to build material design apps:</p> 49 50 <ul> 51 <li>A new theme</li> 52 <li>New widgets for complex views</li> 53 <li>New APIs for custom shadows and animations</li> 54 </ul> 55 56 <p>For more information about implementing material design on Android, see 57 <a href="{@docRoot}training/material/index.html">Creating Apps with Material Design</a>.</p> 58 59 60 <h3>Material Theme</h3> 61 62 <p>The material theme provides a new style for your app, system widgets that let you set 63 their color palette, and default animations for touch feedback and activity transitions.</p> 64 65 <!-- two columns --> 66 <div style="width:700px;margin-top:25px;margin-bottom:20px"> 67 <div style="float:left;width:250px;margin-left:40px;margin-right:60px;"> 68 <img src="{@docRoot}design/material/images/MaterialDark.png" width="500" height="238"/> 69 <div style="width:140px;margin:0 auto"> 70 <p style="margin-top:8px">Dark material theme</p> 71 </div> 72 </div> 73 <div style="float:left;width:250px;margin-right:0px;"> 74 <img src="{@docRoot}design/material/images/MaterialLight.png" width="500" height="238"/> 75 <div style="width:140px;margin:0 auto"> 76 <p style="margin-top:8px">Light material theme</p> 77 </div> 78 </div> 79 <br style="clear:left"/> 80 </div> 81 82 <p>For more information, see <a href="{@docRoot}training/material/theme.html">Using the Material 83 Theme</a>.</p> 84 85 86 <h3>Lists and Cards</h3> 87 88 <p>Android provides two new widgets for displaying cards and lists with material design styles 89 and animations:</p> 90 91 <!-- two columns --> 92 <div style="width:700px;margin-top:25px;margin-bottom:20px"> 93 <div style="float:left;width:250px;margin-left:40px;margin-right:60px;"> 94 <img src="{@docRoot}design/material/images/list_mail.png" width="500" height="426"/> 95 <p>The new <code>RecyclerView</code> widget is a more pluggable version of <code>ListView</code> 96 that supports different layout types and provides performance improvements.</p> 97 </div> 98 <div style="float:left;width:250px;margin-right:0px;"> 99 <img src="{@docRoot}design/material/images/card_travel.png" width="500" height="426"/> 100 <p>The new <code>CardView</code> widget lets you display important pieces of information inside 101 cards that have a consistent look and feel.</p> 102 </div> 103 <br style="clear:left"/> 104 </div> 105 106 <p>For more information, see <a href="{@docRoot}training/material/lists-cards.html">Creating Lists 107 and Cards</a>.</p> 108 109 110 <h3>View Shadows</h3> 111 112 <p>In addition to the X and Y properties, views in Android now have a Z 113 property. This new property represents the elevation of a view, which determines:</p> 114 115 <ul> 116 <li>The size of the shadow: views with higher Z values cast bigger shadows.</li> 117 <li>The drawing order: views with higher Z values appear on top of other views.</li> 118 </ul> 119 120 <div style="width:290px;margin-left:35px;float:right"> 121 <div class="framed-nexus5-port-span-5"> 122 <video class="play-on-hover" autoplay> 123 <source src="{@docRoot}design/material/videos/ContactsAnim.mp4"/> 124 <source src="{@docRoot}design/videos/ContactsAnim.webm"/> 125 <source src="{@docRoot}design/videos/ContactsAnim.ogv"/> 126 </video> 127 </div> 128 <div style="font-size:10pt;margin-left:20px;margin-bottom:30px"> 129 <em>To replay the movie, click on the device screen</em> 130 </div> 131 </div> 132 133 <p>For more information, see <a href="{@docRoot}training/material/shadows-clipping.html">Defining 134 Shadows and Clipping Views</a>.</p> 135 136 137 <h3>Animations</h3> 138 139 <p>The new animation APIs let you create custom animations for touch feedback in UI controls, 140 changes in view state, and activity transitions.</p> 141 142 <p>These APIs let you:</p> 143 144 <ul> 145 <li style="margin-bottom:15px"> 146 Respond to touch events in your views with <strong>touch feedback</strong> animations. 147 </li> 148 <li style="margin-bottom:15px"> 149 Hide and show views with <strong>circular reveal</strong> animations. 150 </li> 151 <li style="margin-bottom:15px"> 152 Switch between activities with custom <strong>activity transition</strong> animations. 153 </li> 154 <li style="margin-bottom:15px"> 155 Create more natural animations with <strong>curved motion</strong>. 156 </li> 157 <li style="margin-bottom:15px"> 158 Animate changes in one or more view properties with <strong>view state change</strong> animations. 159 </li> 160 <li style="margin-bottom:15px"> 161 Show animations in <strong>state list drawables</strong> between view state changes. 162 </li> 163 </ul> 164 165 <p>Touch feedback animations are built into several standard views, such as buttons. The new APIs 166 let you customize these animations and add them to your custom views.</p> 167 168 <p>For more information, see <a href="{@docRoot}training/material/animations.html">Defining Custom 169 Animations</a>.</p> 170 171 172 <h3>Drawables</h3> 173 174 <p>These new capabilities for drawables help you implement material design apps:</p> 175 176 <ul> 177 <li><strong>Vector drawables</strong> are scalable without losing definition and are perfect 178 for single-color in-app icons.</li> 179 <li><strong>Drawable tinting</strong> lets you define bitmaps as an alpha mask and tint them with 180 a color at runtime.</li> 181 <li><strong>Color extraction</strong> lets you automatically extract prominent colors from a 182 bitmap image.</li> 183 </ul> 184 185 <p>For more information, see <a href="{@docRoot}training/material/drawables.html">Working with 186 Drawables</a>.</p> 187
