

You can read more about it in this Android Developers post: We Recommend Material Design Components Is a good practice to review them while developing.Īndroid engineers recommend using Material Design Components. There are many other theme attributes defined in the MD library, and updates in the official documentation occur regularly.

There is also a borderlessButtonStyle attribute for the Text Button, but as of today, the official Material Docs shows the snippet above. Note how the Outlined Button Style is set by a theme attribute called materialButtonOutlinedStyle. As far as in Android Studio 4.0.1 (In 4.1 is fixed﹡) if you create a new project with the empty activity wizard, the colors file looks like this.Ĭheck how the Contained Buttons does not need any specification to be painted with the theme colors, and how the others just need to set the style to a Material Design Library Style. Color namingįirst of all, we have to select our colors.

Material Design Documentation is being updated constantly. I used typography as a guide to explain the main concepts related to the Android Application Theming, the Android solution to have a Style System. In that article, I explained why having a Style System help us to have a cohesive and easy to develop UI in our apps.

This is a continuation of the Article Android Design System and Theming: Typography. Photo by Daniele Levis Pelusi on Unsplash 1.
