MATERIAL DESIGN
Alexandre Martínez Olmos
28 - 1 - 2015
INSPIRED BY THE INK AND
PAPER ...Material Design is a design language developed by Google
and presented in 2014.
1) Cleaner design.
2) Predominantly animations, transitions , fillers ,
lighting and shadows.
3) Physical and edge surfaces.
4) Public APIs available to any developer.
Android Lollipop is implemented and used in other services
like Google Drive, Docs, Sheets ... In the future it will be in
Google Search, Gmail and Calendar .
MINIMALISM
“Material design is a comprehensive guide for visual, motion, and interaction design across platforms and devices.”
1) Material Theme
2) Lists and Cards
3) View Shadows
4) Animations
5) Drawables
MATERIAL THEMES
The material theme provides a new style for your app, system widgets that let you set their color palette, and default animat
LISTS AND CARDS
MATERIAL PROPERTIESMaterial elements always have 1dp thick. Never it can be 0.
VIEW SHADOWSIn addition to the X and Y properties, views in Android now have a Z property.
The size of the shadow: views with higher Z values cast bigger shadows.
The drawing order: views with higher Z values appear on top of other views.
CONTENT BEHAVIOR
MATERIAL IS SOLID
EACH ELEMENT IN ONE
POINT
MATERIAL CAN HEAL
ANIMATIONS
CONTINUITY
DO DON’T
DRAWABLES
WELL DONE!