Are there efforts underway to backport the new Material Design style and widgets to pre-L versions of Android, similar to the "HoloEverywhere"-library? The creator of that library has initialized an empty GitHub-repository, but it doesn't seem to be in active development. I know there is a backport of L-style dialogs and the floating action button, but there are obviously so many more widgets that have changed in Android L.
Has the Android team made any announcement whether they are working on a support library (exceeding what's currently available)?
The Design Support library adds support for various material design components and patterns for app developers to build upon, such as navigation drawers, floating action buttons (FAB), snackbars, and tabs. The Gradle build script dependency identifier for this library is as follows: com. android. support:design:28.0.
Lastly, Material Design is open-source, which means you can customize the design library to match your brand and product requirements. The system is available for Android and iOS, allowing you to use one design library for both operating systems.
Support Libraries provide classes and methods that closely resemble APIs in the Android Framework. Upon discovering this, you may wonder if you should use the framework version of the API or the support library equivalent.
Material design is a comprehensive guide for visual, motion, and interaction design across platforms and devices. To use material design in your Android apps, follow the guidelines defined in the material design specification and use the new components and styles available in the material design support library.
Here is complex answer for you
Here what you need:
Just get the idea and you ready to go.
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimaryDark"/>
Setup guide: http://antonioleiva.com/material-design-everywhere/
Source with example: https://github.com/antoniolg/MaterialEverywhere
To make Toolbar work lower API 11 use Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar (instead windowActionBar set to false)
<style name="NoActionBarTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
...
</style>
Here is Material Design Library for pretty buttons, etc.. Currently it's heavily developed.
Guide, code, example - https://github.com/navasmdc/MaterialDesignLibrary
Guide how to add library to Android Studio 1.0 - How do I import material design library to Android Studio?
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Hope it helps :)
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