ANDROID STUDIO THEME TUTORIAL HOW TO

This is because I want that Lollipop uses its nice set some primary colors and remove the ActionBar. You will see that I’m using a Base theme and overriding the final theme in values-v21. Now, the AppCompat Theme includes everything you need to support Material Design in previous versions. It’s now important that your theme extends Theme.AppCompat. Your adle should be something like this:ĪpplicationId ''Ĭompile fileTree(dir: ‘libs’, include: )Ĭompile ‘:appcompat-v7:21.+’ Setting up your projectįirst, you will need to create a new project and set ActionBar compatibility, even if you are only supporting 14+ devices. One minor clarification: Lollipop transitions are not backwards compatible, so at the moment you won’t be able to see those smooth transitions in pre-21 devices.

ANDROID STUDIO THEME TUTORIAL HOW TO

I’m not getting into details on how to take the most out of this theme (that will require some extra tutorials), but to get it prepared to work backwards, even with transitions functional in Lollipop. Enjoy!Īnyway, in this post I want to give you the most basic tools to create an app that uses Material as its main theme, and functional from API 7. If you want to know more about this topic, I have another article from a talk and a more complex example in another repository on Github. So be aware that if you are using it for previous projects, the transition won’t be straightforward.

And it luckily happened: this new theme is included in AppCompat 21. We were all hoping that the new support APIs included Material Design, the new theme adopted since Android 5.0 Lollipop.

Android studio theme tutorial