How can I create material for older versions?

Question

How can I create material for older versions?

I tried adding appcompat_v7to my project, but that didn’t change anything unfortunately.

Please, help!

Answer 1

It is not automatic. But first, you'll need appcompat 21. Look at this:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2014/10/appcompat-v21-material-design-for-pre.html?m=1

Edit: In 2015, the MOO Matias Duarte introduced a design support library that greatly facilitates this task. It is included in the SDK repository.

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

Answer 2

Material Design . 2,2

https://github.com/navasmdc/MaterialDesignLibrary

, MaterialDesign, Android.

, , buil.gradle:

repositories {
    jcenter()
}

dependencies {
    compile 'com.github.navasmdc:MaterialDesign:1.2@aar'
}

Answer 3

Material Design - , API , . API 21 , Android 5.0 SDK .

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There is a lot of information on the official page: https://developer.android.com/training/material/compatibility.html

Also important is the page mentioned by Fco P.