Material Android

NOTE - Deprecated and no longer actively developed. The repository can be used for inspiration or to implement similar ideas in your own projects. It was originally created due to a need for all the Material Design resources within Android apps. More of this is provided for you and Material Design has since changed. As such, this project is no longer supported or maintained.

Access commonly used Material Design resource values (e.g. colours, text sizes and dimensions), custom views, layouts and styles, through a simple dependency.

Contents

There are various ways in which Material Android can be useful to you:

1. Include as a dependency to access all the resources, layouts and views.
2. Use as a reference to add the resouces you need to your app.
3. Run the sample app to try out different primary and accent colour combinations or to test out the different styles and views.

Colour palette

All the material colours are included both as colour resources and through the MaterialColor class. The colour resources are named in the form ma_{colourName}_{colourValue}

For example:

@color/ma_red_500, @color/ma_blue_700, @color/ma_purple_a200, R.color.ma_orange_100, R.color.ma_teal_a700

All of the colours and colour values in the palette are included, both regular values and accent versions. Black and white, of course only have a single value.

Typography and Text colours

Text colours are included for display on both light and dark backgrounds. Material Design suggests changing text colour through opacity, so that the text displays well on different coloured backgrounds.

Dark Text on a Light Background

Style	Colour	Opacity	Name
Primary text	#000000	87%	ma_text_dark_primary_87
Secondary text	#000000	54%	ma_text_dark_secondary_54
Disabled / Hint text	#000000	38%	ma_text_dark_disabled_hint_38

Light Text on a Dark Background

Style	Colour	Opacity	Name
Primary text	#ffffff	100%	ma_text_light_primary_100
Secondary text	#ffffff	70%	ma_text_light_secondary_70
Disabled / Hint text	#ffffff	50%	ma_text_light_disabled_hint_50

Text sizes are available for different types of text, such as buttons, captions and titles, as well.

Keylines and Components

Styling for various commonly used components are included, through layouts, dimensions, colours and text sizes.

• Buttons
• Cards
• Dividers
• Floating Action Button
• Grid Lists
• Lists
• Subheaders
• Text Fields

Styles

A full width text field style has been applied which you can use with an EditText. This removes the underline and displays it as a full-width input field. You can see it in action within the sample app.

Custom Views

PasswordEditText

An EditText class which meets the Material Design guidelines for a password input field. It features a visibility toggle that switches between hiding and showing the text entered. It features customisation options to change the toggle and the default visibility state for the text. Support for this type of input have been added to the Android support libraries, however, the version here is still more powerful. It allows you to have greater control over the appearance of the visibility toggle.

1. You can have the icon change opacity based on the visibility state.
2. The icon can have strike-through added when the input is hidden.
3. You can choose two custom drawables to use for the two visibility states.

GridItemView

A view which meets the Material Design guidelines for grid lists. It contains multiple different variants and other customisation options. As mentioned above, layouts are also provided to add grid list item views to your app if you don't wish to use the full custom view.

• Single line of text
• Single line of text with an icon
• Two lines of text
• Two lines of text with an icon
• Icon gravity (either left/start or right/end)

ListItemView

A view which meets the Material Design guidelines for lists. It contains many different variants and other customisation options. As mentioned above, layouts are also provided to add list item views to your app if you don't wish to use the full custom view.

• One, two or three lines of text
• Icon (on right/end)
• Avatar (on left/start)
• Icon and avatar

Sample

The sample app contains many different parts. It allows you to try out the Material Design palette - you can select a primary and accent colour and see what they look like next to each other.

You can try out the different typography on both a light and dark background.

You can use the different components included:

• The password input field
• Grid lists
• Lists
• A full width text field

Author

Andrew Lord @lordcodes