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Kim Sean
Kim Sean

Reputation: 47

Android Material Design on KitKat 4.4

I am starting to learn Android development. I read on the Google dev site that Material Design is only available on Android 5.0. I wonder why some applications on Android 4.4 have material design. I am using Android 4.4. Any guides or tips give me? Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4029

Answers (2)

MehDi
MehDi

Reputation: 514

First I should remember Material Design isn't only some code or component else ,It's totally a concept about how design your app to get best UI/UX.

And yes ,android 5 and above ,have some pretty and new features and components ,that you can use some of them in android <5 by some support library that Google or someone else provide them , for example look at these two lib:

com.android.support:appcompat-v7
com.android.support:design

these are most useful libs by Google to have material components in android <5 development.

Upvotes: 2

Aur&#233;lien Lepage
Aur&#233;lien Lepage

Reputation: 177

There is a design backward compatibility library that bring important material design components to Android 2.1 and above.

See : http://android-developers.blogspot.fr/2015/05/android-design-support-library.html

Generally speaking, Android always provides some support libraries to provide backward compatibility to previous version on Android.

You will find all you need here : https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/support-library/features.html

Upvotes: 2

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