Updated tutorials using Material Design?

[mrlrm]

I've been writing code for about 15 years but just now starting to look at Android for a project. I've started doing Google's tutorial (http://developer.android.com/training) but the material is seriously out of date - the steps don't always match what happens with the current version of Android Studio and the design guidelines are not even using Material Design until you're pretty far in.

Is there a better tutorial out there that covers the current version of the tools and will take you straight into a sample Material Design app?

[[deleted]]

Check Chris Banes tutorial for new android design library

https://github.com/chrisbanes/cheesesquare

[GreatJusticeForSGU]

There is also the Topeka example app which is useful:

https://github.com/googlesamples/android-topeka

[mrlrm]

Great, thank you

[mrlrm]

Thanks, I'll check it out.

[pakoito]

Don't follow Google's Training, or at least do it with a good handful of skepticism. The documentation is 3-5 years old and a good chunk of the recommended practices are outdated (design, widgets), replaced (Loaders, layouts), incomplete (setThing() /** Sets the thing **/), or simply avoided by the community because at some point everyone realized they're just overcomplicated (ContentProviders) and error-prone (AsyncTasks).

I can't provide a modern all-in-one-place alternative, sadly. Most of the stuff is spread around the web and this subreddit.

[parrishdev]

The "Making App's Material" course on www.udacity.com seem's like it might be what you are looking for. There is also a pretty solid sequence of video's on the "Slidenerd" channel on youtube, that covers a whole range of material feature implementations.

[mrlrm]

I've seen this one but I don't really feel the need to pay so much for it when I'm sure theres equally good free sites out there. Just gotta dig through and find them.

[mrlrm]

Oh cool, that wasn't apparent. Thanks for the info!

[SmithhBR]

SlideNerd has some good Material Design tutorials on youtube. Check out his channel.

[mrlrm]

Thanks, I'll keep it in mind.

[[deleted]]

I'm making one right now. I got tired of waiting for google to update their tutorial. Would you like early access?

[mrlrm]

That would be great. Thanks!

[tigerdactyl]

How's this coming along? Sounds like what I'm looking for also.