A Material Design guide for Android Developers

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Rebuilt a production app using Material rules and shows exactly which libraries and XML patterns to copy: uses AppCompat and Design Support libraries to support back to Android 2.1, replaces raster icons with vector assets, and uses the Palette API extracts six colors from images to tint UI. Demonstrates layouts with CoordinatorLayout + CollapsingToolbar plus ViewPager or NestedScrollView, details elevations, ripple selectors, FAB sizes, RecyclerView layout managers, and links a working demo on GitHub so replication is straightforward.

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1. 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
2. 1:20Material Design overview and history
3. 3:28Android terminology and screen metrics
4. 5:57Style: Colors and themes
5. 7:01Style: Typography and fonts
6. 8:28Style: Image and Palette API
7. 10:15Style: Vector assets
8. 11:41Layout: Keylines and grids
9. 13:06Layout: Device metrics and responsive UI
10. 15:38Animation: Surface reactions and shadows
11. 17:04Components: Buttons and FABs
12. 19:50Components: Cards and lists
13. 21:33Components: RecyclerView and SnackBar
14. 24:42Patterns: Scrolling behaviors
15. 29:58Summary and resources

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