Top 6 elements of Android Material App Design

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• Material design is the new design language for
  Android and defines the visual, motion and
  interaction design across platforms and devices.
  Google has a material design specification that
  offers guidelines for using material design for
  app development on the platform. These can be
  used on Android 5.0 lollipop version on-wards. We
  discuss 6 elements of material design for Android
  apps development.

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• 1. Material theme
• It is the interface style that establishes the
  look and feel of views and activities. This
  element is built into the Lollipop and is used by
  the system UI and applications. The user can
  dynamically set the system-wide appearance with
  this element from their Settings menu. There are
  3 flavours of Material Theme
• Theme.Material
• Theme.Material.Light
• Theme.Material.Light.DarkActionBar
• 2. Widgets for cards and lists-
• There are two new widgets for displaying cards
  and lists
• RecyclerView with multiple layout options and
  supports high performance
• CardView display information inside a card
• 3. Custom shadows and view clipping
• With custom shadows and view clipping, elevation
  of UI elements are introduced. Elevation
  determines the shadow cast by each view can can
  be set for layouts defined in DP for any view.

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• 4. Vector drawables
• They are vector graphics the recipe for which is
  written in an XML format that can be executed
  with a series of draw commands. Their advantage
  is that they can be scaled without losing
  definition and only one asset file is required
  for each screen density.
• 5. Custom animations
• With material design, animation gives users
  feedback on actions and visual continuity to
  interact with the app. There is some default
  animation button and activity transitions which
  can be customized or new ones can be created.
  There are custom animation APIS for
• Touch feedback
• Circular Reveal
• Activity transitions
• Curved motion
• View state changes
• State list drawables -Vector Drawables ,Colour
  extraction, Drawable tinting

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• 6. APIs for custom shadows and animations
• Material Design has new APIS for custom design
  and shadows. You can use animation APIs to create
  custom animations for UI controls, changing view
  state and activity transition. The new APIs allow
  you to
• Respond to touch events
• Hide and show views with circular reveal
• Add customized activity transition
• Create natural animations with curved motion
• Animate multiple view properties with view state
  change animations
• Add animations to state list drawables
• We are excited about commencing android app
  development for Lollipop and Marshmallow using
  these cool features. Get in touch for your
  development needs too.