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DominikTV
DominikTV

Reputation: 354

How to Update App to (native?) Material design

I see that Google updated some apps (like Hangout) to the new Material Design.

How can I do that too? I have a Nexus 5(Android 4.4), but if I set the Theme in the styles.xml to "android: style / Theme.Material", Android Studio reports (of course) API 21 +: Android L (Preview) needed.

How has Google done this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 511

Answers (1)

Kushal Sharma
Kushal Sharma

Reputation: 5973

You need to use appcompat v21 - material design for pre-Lollipop devices. To use the same (if you are on android studio) Update your SDK and add appcompat as a dependency in your build.gradle: 

dependencies {  
    ...
    compile "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.0"
}

And i guess you are ready to go code using material design for pre L devices.

You can read more about it here.

Upvotes: 1

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