From the course: Android Development Essential Training: 2 User Interface Design
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Define visual styles and themes - Android Tutorial
From the course: Android Development Essential Training: 2 User Interface Design
Define visual styles and themes
- [Instructor] Android apps are all about style, the placement of using your layouts, the variation of colors using your components, as well as the motion that takes place when a user interacts with those components can all be defined by what is called the material design system. Material.io has everything you need to know about working with material design. Let's review three primary areas that will help you get the basics of what material design has to offer. First, in the left pane, let's look at layout. And then we'll go down to spacing methods. Spacing methods are important because this is how we align views inside of the material design ecosystem. You'll notice that the baseline grid is based on an 8dp grid. For the most part, all components aligned to an 8dp square baseline for mobile, tablet and desktop. As we continue to scroll down the page, we'll see even more information around margins, spacing…
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