213 Android Material Design Tutorial |
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when answering questions about AppCompat themes, ActionBarActivity and getting Material Design working on older Android versions.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2015 to 2015.
What it is
A short 2014 Android tutorial from the slidenerd channel showing how to set up Material Design in Android Studio using the appcompat-v7 support library and the Theme.AppCompat theme variants. It is part of a numbered series of Android development lessons.
What people said
Recommends shivamDev31 · 2015-03 · Stack Overflow · on “What to use instead of ListView”
As ListView is no longer recommended by Google, you should use RecycleView [LINK] You can get MaterialDesign video tutorials here [this video] too.
Recommends Shivam · 2015-06 · Stack Overflow · on “Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar style does not work / load”
Well since there are no many details, I think you might have forgotten that you need to extend ActionBarActivity in each activity. public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity This video explains it well: [this video]
Cites SebS · 2015-01 · Stack Overflow · on “Do I need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) for V21 styles too?”
Should my values-v21 folder contain reference to Theme.Appcompat when using Material Design theme? My API min is 9 and my target API is 21. I have the following: AndroidManifest.xml <application ... android:theme="@style/AppTheme"> values\styles.xml <resources> <style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar"> </style> <style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme"> </style> </resources> values-v21\styles.xml <resources> <style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material.Light"> </style> </resources> But I get ...You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity. and I have extended my Activity with ActionBarActivity I mainly followed the followin