Android material design buttons - Pre lollipop

Question

How do I implement the \"raised button\" and the \"flat button\" as described in google\'s material design guidelines?

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Raised buttons add dimension

Answer 1

You asked for material design buttons Library - you got it - https://github.com/navasmdc/MaterialDesignLibrary

Answer 2

For a description of how to do this using the appcompat libray, check my answer to another question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/27696134/1932522

This will show how to make use of the raised and flat buttons for both Android 5.0 and earlier (up to API level 11)!

Answer 3

I'm working on a material compatibility library. The button class is there and supports animated shadows and the touch ripple. Maybe you will find it useful. Here's the link.

Answer 4

In order to implement the flat buttons, you could just add style="?android:attr/borderlessButtonStyle".

Example:

<Button
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="DONE"
    style="?android:attr/borderlessButtonStyle"
    />

Here's the reference for the attribute.

Answer 5

You can use MaterialDesignLibrary. It's third party library.

This is a library with components of Android L to you use in android 2.2 If you want use this library, you only have to download MaterialDesign project, import it into your workspace and add the project as a library in your android project settings.

Answer 6

This requires Android 5.0

Raised Button

Inherit your button style from Widget.Material.Button, and the standard elevation and raising action will automatically be applied.

<style name="Your.Button" parent="android:style/Widget.Material.Button">
    <item name="android:background">@drawable/raised_button_background</item>
</style>

Then you need to create a raised_button_background.xml file with your button's background color inside a ripple tag:

<ripple xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:color="?attr/colorControlHighlight">
    <item android:drawable="@color/button_color"/>
</ripple>

Flat Button

Edit: Instead of my previous advice for flat buttons, you should instead use follow the advice given by Stephen Kaiser below:

<Button
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="DONE"
    style="?android:attr/borderlessButtonStyle"
/>

Edit: If you are using Support Library, you can achieve the same result on Pre-Lollipop devices by using style="?attr/borderlessButtonStyle". (notice the absence of android:) The above example then becomes

<Button
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="DONE"
    style="?attr/borderlessButtonStyle"
/>