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Today I was Googling for "material design components" I ended up at this site:
https://material.io/components/
As I remember, I've never seen it before.
In the Android section there are instruction to use the components and ok, it seems to be the well-known Android Design Support Library:
But what intrigues me is that there are components there that are not in the design library, such as:
Back Layer Layout, Material Card and Material Button.
The docs for these classes seems to be not ready yet and the links points to nowhere, like: material button doc.
There is something in the github site.
Sorry for ignorance, but what is the purpose of this site? Is it something future or something left behind?
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Material Design is an Android-oriented design language created by Google, supporting onscreen touch experiences via cue-rich features and natural motions that mimic real-world objects. Designers optimize users' experience with 3D effects, realistic lighting and animation features in immersive, platform-consistent GUIs.
Material Components are interactive building blocks for creating a user interface, and include a built-in states system to communicate focus, selection, activation, error, hover, press, drag, and disabled states. Component libraries are available for Android, iOS, Flutter, and the web.
The Material Site Map Atlas has been prepared for the purpose of showing the approximate locations of material sites located statewide. Material sites provide the aggregates that are made into the concrete, bituminous, base, and borrow layers that make up the pavement structural sections on roads.
What is Material Design used for? The Material Design framework was originally developed as the official style of Google's websites and apps (including Android apps). It's since been used beyond Google's platforms for websites and apps from a variety of brands.
The Android Design Support Library was the precursor of the Material Design Components. As of the Support Library 28.0.0-alpha1 release, the Design Library now contains all of the new components introduced in the Material Design Components:
We’ve introduced a new application theme, Theme.MaterialComponents, with new attributes and updated styles for components.
We’ve added the following components:
- BottomAppBar
- Chip
- ChipGroup
- MaterialButton
- MaterialCardView
While the 28.0.0-alpha1 release does contain all of the new classes, the documentation on developer.android.com does not yet contain the updates from the Design Library (keeping the docs effectively on what was publically available previously), but they are definitely there if you use that dependency.
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The support libraries are now available through Google's Maven repository. We no longer support downloading the libraries through the SDK Manager, and that functionality will be removed soon..
as the Support Library Setup says. And this repository and material library within it will be offical to use.
Latest dependencies to use material components is:
com.google.android.material:material:1.0.0-alpha1
Getting started with Material Components for Android will help you to setup your project.
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