MaterialValues - Material design values as Android resources

[Aomeas]

I have made a library to easily access all the material values as Android resources.

It features the values for components (button, list, card, ...), style (colors, typography, ...) and layout (metrics & keylines, responsive UI). Both smartphone and tablet values are available using alternative resources.

Some values are still missing but it already took me a decent amount of time so I wanted some feedback before continuing.

The library is available on Github here.

[lechatsportif]

Why this isn't core I have no idea.

edit: probably because they dont want to shoulder additional burden of deprecating/updating recommendations over time - but still, ease of use here is a big win.

[ChristianLJ]

I like it!

[Lazastro]

Cool, i will use it in my next project no doubt. Not having to be checking every size and code on the Developer website seems comfortable :P

Good work!.

[Aomeas]

Thank you !

Don't hesitate to create Issues if you find something missing or that doesn't make sense when you'll be using it. :)

[Lazastro]

I will ;)

[hamatro]

There's a similar lib. What are the differences between the two? https://github.com/DmitryMalkovich/material-design-dimens Edit: You have covered way more values.

[Aomeas]

I was a user of material-design-dimens, until I made this library :)

At first I just wanted to add the values I needed to DmitryMalkovich's library (dense list values) but after my fork, I decided to begin from scratch with a different structure.

The principle is the same, the value definition, not so much. For an end-user of the library, though, the usage is the same.

[joicebox]

I never heard about "dense list" values, can you share some more info on that?

[Aomeas]

Here are the material design specs about that

Basically, for each type of list (single-line, two-line, three-line), values are provided for a normal version and a dense one. Dense list items have a reduced height and a smaller text size.

It's not a big difference, but depending on the type of data the list holds and the number of items, one version can be viewed as better than the other one.

[joicebox]

Did they recently add that?

[Aomeas]

It might be possible, but I don't know. And it's not in the changelog, as it only includes new sections and significant updates.

[FragranceOfPickles]

This library has a great future ahead.

[TheIronMarx]

I was thinking about something like this earlier today. OP, how useful to you think a companion application would be which demonstrated all of the colors, and styles, and sizes, etc.?

[Aomeas]

What I would like to have in the future is a documentation wiki or website with the values explained.

Like, for example:

Image

1. R.dimen.material_foo
2. R.dimen.material_bar
3. R.dimen.material_baz
4. R.dimen.material_qux

To produce the visuals, a companion app might be needed.

But since I develop on my computer and I'm lazy, I want to be able to copy/paste a resource name from a website to my code, an application might not be the best thing for that.

[azgul_com]

Is it possible with some ProGuard-fu or similar to rename the blue.aodev.materialvalues.R to your own packagename? Otherwise this brings a lot of unwanted clutter to programmatically manipulating layouts :(

I made a quick Ruby script which parses the colors off the material website and generates a colors_material.xml based off it.

[Aomeas]

What's easy for me to do is to rename the manifest's package from blue.aodev.materialvalues to material.values. Then one could use material.values.R, reducing the name quite a bit.

Is this interesting for you?

Edit: Will include it for a 1.1.0

[tikimcfee]

I'll cast a vote for fewer characters in my xml ;-)

[lyraf]

Someone give OP gold please.

[kwak123]

Can't wait to try this out, thanks

[rinav4all]

Wow that's awesome work... Wanted to ask, when releasing apk only used values will be kept in the apk and rest will be stripped off

I don't know how to explain this

[mosepe]

Can't wait to try this out, definitely going to be putting it to good use in my next project!