Material Design Buttons and other components

Question

Im trying to make an application Lollipop & Material Design compatible following the latest guidelines.

Anyhow I'm having troubles finding the appropriate documentation for the components for Lollipop on developer.android.com it kinda seems like the documentation is stuck with KitKat and appropriate documentation is missing.

I have the need to implement Flat Buttons like these (http://www.google.com/design/spec/components/buttons.html#buttons-flat-raised-buttons) and Icon Toggles like these (http://www.google.com/design/spec/components/buttons.html#buttons-other-buttons).

Besides that I'm also trying to implement big style App Bar/Toolbar - again can't find an appropriate documentation.

Any tips?

Answer 1

for the new tool bar api have a look at http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Toolbar.html

http://android-developers.blogspot.co.il/2014/10/appcompat-v21-material-design-for-pre.html

for button styles you just need to use elevation https://developer.android.com/training/material/shadows-clipping.html

for buttons togglers just use selectors / ripple effect https://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/drawable/RippleDrawable.html

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Answer 2

Well it depends on what you are looking for and want to achieve for the material design look and feel. The url's you have are more the design guidelines. About how everything should look. It's as important as the developers guidelines if you design too.

Material Activity transitions

But when you think about the material design transitions where they don't want those static transitions like "Go from this activity to another" But more like a dynamic transition you can look for examples and explanation here: https://developer.android.com/training/material/animations.html

Ripples

If you want to know more about the touchy ripple effects and things like how to get the 'hairline' color of components you can find more here: http://android-developers.blogspot.nl/2014/10/implementing-material-design-in-your.html

Elevation

Also Material design wants you to play more with the elevation of elements. Check that here: https://developer.android.com/training/material/shadows-clipping.html

And ofcourse there is more. Look in the left menu where you can find more best practice examples. Also the new Android 21.+ SDK offers new examples released a couple of weeks ago. Check those out to see how google implements Material design for api level 21.+