Is there any way to create an app with Material design in Eclipse? Hamburger to arrow animation, full screen height navigation drawer...
Yes you can create an app with material design using eclipse. Please follow each steps below carefully without any error.
Steps:
values/styles.xml should be as below.
<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
....
// Your style here
</style>
values-v21/style.xml should be as below.
<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Material.Light.DarkActionBar">
....
// Your style here
</style>
You can find different style attributes here https://developer.android.com/training/material/theme.html
After following above steps, your app will be ready with material design theme.
Now your second question regarding navigation drawer you can use following link for simple and step by step implementation.
Part 1 http://www.android4devs.com/2014/12/how-to-make-material-design-navigation-drawer.html4
Part 2 http://www.android4devs.com/2015/01/recycler-view-handling-onitemtouch-for.html
This implementation uses recycler view. For that you need to add recycler view lib (location - sdk\extras\android\support\v7) to your project and add it to build path.
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