I'm wondering about the different types of buttons available in android Lollipop. In Google's material design guidelines for buttons Google described the three different types of buttons available in API 21. The button, the flat button and the floating action button. I can't seem to find the documentation for the buttons (other than the regular). Does anyone know how to make use of the new button APIs?
Thanks,
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There's no new API for the buttons. Material Design is a concept and can be realised using any API/framework (Android Gingerbread, HTML, Windows::Forms, etc.).
The flat button is a regular button with its elevation set to 0.
The floating action button is a regular button with its shape set to circle.
If you need a FloatingActionButton class or something like that, you should look for third party libraries.
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I'm interested in creating a
Neumorphism Style Button. This design utilizes two shadows for the button to create the effect as noted in this image
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I'm wondering how one would go about adding two shadows to a button. I'm aware of using elevation, but that only adds one shadow and I can't seem to find a way to add two like in the second link.
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I am developing an app that will have a very similar interface to this , my question is, all that animation is from material design, but do i have to program all that stuff or android have anitmation libraries for material design that do that?
Some of the design stuff and animations are only available in android 5.0 and above only, like the FAB button and reveal effect.
2 options
Either write the code for animations and layout yourself for pre 5.0 devices
or
Use libraries that do the same thing like fab button and reveal effect etc
There are a lot of open source libraries that you can use in your project for e.g FAB button, arc animation etc.. to support devices before 5.0 Also then you don't forget to read there licence.
So, in short you will get small components from here and there like
reveal effect, arc animation, fab etc use them to achieve the effect.
All across the internet and several Stack Overflow pages, there are detailed instructions for the implementation of Floating Action Buttons, but nobody explains where I might be able to acquire the icon myself. Is everyone creating his own action buttons for his UI, or is there a downloadable library somewhere I have yet to discover?
Please link and explain!
Google doesn't provide any code for it, but it should be pretty basic to build yourself.
If you'd prefer to use a library for it, I use this one by shamanland: floating-action-button. You can change the color and icon displayed, and have it auto-hide when the user is scrolling.
There's another popular library by futuresimple here: android-floating-action-button. It includes support for sub-actions with text labels, and two button sizes, but won't give you auto-hiding on scrolling. I think I started with this one and switched to shamanland's, but I don't remember why.
I am creating Floating Action Button and shadow with .xml files as explained here and using icons from icons8.com, it has Android Lollipop specific icons.
I have recently read over the Material Design specification and do not see any API changes/new classes/etc that relate to some of the UI widgets they use in their examples/pictures.
For example, the floating action button. I have read elsewhere that this is not (at least for the time being) included as a built in class. Is this the case for most of the other controls? Some other examples:
Flat buttons & Editable segmented pulldown buttons
Detached toolbar palette
I'm fairly new to Android development, so are these controls expected in the future? I know the L preview is a preview - so maybe these will be added eventually?
I need a horizontal group of two buttons. It should be, or at least look, native as I want my app to look completely native. I'm after the same style as the button group of the google maps app:
Does anybody know how I can achieve this?
What makes you believe those buttons are native? :)
Actually those controls are custom RadioButtons enclosed in a RadioGroup.
Regarding the native buttons... usually these buttons have a different look and feel on different Android versions. For example on Android 2.2 the predominant color is white/gray, on Android 4.0 is blue.