Learning Material Design

Google's Material Design language has taken the web development and design worlds by storm. Now available on many more platforms than Android, Material Design uses color, light, and movements to not only generate beautiful interfaces, but to provide intuitive navigation for the user.

Key Features

Master the highly acclaimed Material Design paradigm and give your apps and pages the look that everyone is talking about
Get a mix of key theoretical concepts combined with enough practical examples to put each theory into practice so you can create elegant material interfaces with Android Studio and Polymer
Written by Kyle Mew, successful author with over a decade of mobile and web development experience, this book has both the touch of a developer as well as an experienced writer

Book Description

Learning Material Design will teach you the fundamental theories of Material Design using code samples to put these theories into practice.

Focusing primarily on Android Studio, you'll create mobile interfaces using the most widely used and powerful material components, such as sliding drawers and floating action buttons. Each section will introduce the relevant Java classes and APIs required to implement these components. With the rules regarding structure, layout, iconography, and typography covered, we then move into animation and transition, possibly Material Design's most powerful concept, allowing complex hierarchies to be displayed simply and stylishly.

With all the basic technologies and concepts mastered, the book concludes by showing you how these skills can be applied to other platforms, in particular web apps, using the powerful Polymer library.

What you will learn

Implement Material Design on both mobile and web platforms that work on older handsets and browsers
Design stylish layouts with the Material Theme
Create and manage cards, lists, and grids
Design and implement sliding drawers for seamless navigation
Coordinate components to work together
Animate widgets and create transitions and animation program flow
Use Polymer to bring Material Design to your web pages

About the Author

Kyle Mew has been programming since the early eighties and has written for several technology websites. He has also written three radio plays and two other books on Android development.

Table of Contents

Getting Started with Material Design
Building a Mobile Layout
Common Components
Sliding Drawers and Navigation
Lists, Cards, and Data
Animations and Transitions
Material on Other Devices
Material Web Frameworks
The Materialize Framework
Material Design Lite