Android 5.0 Lollipop introduces Material Design, which enables your apps to adopt a bold, colorful, and flexible design,
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Thursday, 27 November 2014 By Unknown
Android 5.0 Lollipop introduces Material Design,
which enables your apps to adopt a bold, colorful, and flexible design,
while remaining true to a small set of key principles that guide user
interaction across multiple screens and devices.
After making sure your current apps work with Android 5.0, now is the time to enable the Material theme in your app with the AppCompat support library. For quick tips & recommendations for making your app shine with Material Design, check out our Material Design guidelines and tablet optimization tips. For those of you new to Material Design, check out our Getting Started guide.
Starting November 3rd, Nexus 9 will be the first device available to consumers that will run Android 5.0. Therefore, it is a great time to publish on Google Play, once you've updated and tested your app. Even if your apps target earlier versions of Android, take a few moments to test them on the Android 5.0 system images, and publish any updates needed in advance of the Android 5.0 rollout.
Stay tuned for more details on the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 devices, and how to make sure your apps look their best on them.
After making sure your current apps work with Android 5.0, now is the time to enable the Material theme in your app with the AppCompat support library. For quick tips & recommendations for making your app shine with Material Design, check out our Material Design guidelines and tablet optimization tips. For those of you new to Material Design, check out our Getting Started guide.
Get your apps ready for Google Play!
Starting today, you can publish your apps that are targeting Android 5.0 Lollipop to Google Play. In your app manifest, updateandroid:targetSdkVersion
to "21"
, test your app, and upload it to the Google Play Developer Console. Starting November 3rd, Nexus 9 will be the first device available to consumers that will run Android 5.0. Therefore, it is a great time to publish on Google Play, once you've updated and tested your app. Even if your apps target earlier versions of Android, take a few moments to test them on the Android 5.0 system images, and publish any updates needed in advance of the Android 5.0 rollout.
Stay tuned for more details on the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 devices, and how to make sure your apps look their best on them.
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