Re: [android-developers] Should we adhere holo design or material design for app running on Android below 5

2015-05-13 Thread Justin Anderson
Good point. I will have to start updating my apps now. :-) On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 8:59 AM Jose_GD jose.gonzale...@gmail.com wrote: +1. Google wouldn't take the effort to make AppCompat if they didn't intend to get Material Design on older devices. Cheers José

Re: [android-developers] Should we adhere holo design or material design for app running on Android below 5

2015-05-12 Thread Jose_GD
+1. Google wouldn't take the effort to make AppCompat if they didn't intend to get Material Design on older devices. Cheers José https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=José%20González%20D%27Amico El lunes, 11 de mayo de 2015, 15:21:16 (UTC-3), TreKing escribió: On Mon, May 11,

[android-developers] Should we adhere holo design or material design for app running on Android below 5

2015-05-11 Thread yccheok
Previously, I had an Android app, which built on the top of ActionBarSherlock. The app runs well on Android 2.3 till Android 5.0 Currently, I'm in the process, of migrating my app, from ActionBarSherlock to Google AppCompat. For the app running on Android 5.0, I'm targeting to use Material

Re: [android-developers] Should we adhere holo design or material design for app running on Android below 5

2015-05-11 Thread Justin Anderson
Ideally, you should style it for whatever version of Android the app is running on. If Lollipop, then, Material, 4.x should use Holo, etc... On Mon, May 11, 2015, 11:22 AM yccheok yancheng.ch...@gmail.com wrote: Previously, I had an Android app, which built on the top of ActionBarSherlock.

Re: [android-developers] Should we adhere holo design or material design for app running on Android below 5

2015-05-11 Thread TreKing
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:17 AM, yccheok yancheng.ch...@gmail.com wrote: However, if the app is running on Android 2.3 till Android 4, should I make the app having Holo look, or Material look? Does Google provide any official guideline on this? Google's put a huge amount of effort into

Re: [android-developers] Should we adhere holo design or material design for app running on Android below 5

2015-05-11 Thread yccheok
I am having same thought as you initially. Until I saw, the latest GMail app in Android 4+, is also in Material design. Personally, I prefer to have holo design on old Android system. However, Google seems to have intention, to push Material design all over the place, including old Android