/Material_design_app

Improved user experience of news reader app by incorporating material design principles

Primary LanguageJava

Make your App Material

##Overview

This app is developed to implement material design principles. It

  • Transforms the user experience of a news reading app using Material Design principles.

  • Makes use of consistent and meaningful use of Material Design UI components, fonts, color, motion and surfaces.

  • Used the Design Support library and its provided widget types

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  • The app is built with compileSdkVersion 23 and requires JDK 7 or higher
  • Android Studio

The app source code is provided in the course [repository] (https://www.udacity.com/api/nodes/4292653440/supplemental_media/xyzreaderzip/download)

##Instructions

###Get the source codes

Get the source code of the library and example app, by cloning git repository or downloading archives.

  • If you use git, execute the following command in your workspace directory.

    $ git clone https://github.com/Ruchita7/Material_design_app.git

  • If you are using Windows, try it on GitBash or Cygwin or something that supports git.

###Import the project to Android Studio

Once the project is cloned to disk you can import into Android Studio:

  • From the toolbar select File > Import Project, or Import Non-Android Studio project from the Welcome Quick Start.

  • Select the directory that is cloned. If you can't see your cloned directory, click "Refresh" icon and find it.

  • Android Studio will import the project and build it. This might take minutes to complete. Even when the project window is opened, wait until the Gradle tasks are finished and indexed.

###Build and install using Gradle

If you just want to install the app to your device, you don't have to import project to Android Studio.

• After cloning the project, make sure ANDROID_HOME environment variable is set to point to your Android SDK. See Getting Started with Gradle.

• Connect an Android device to your computer or start an Android emulator.

• Compile the sample and install it. Run gradlew installDebug. Or if you on a Windows computer, use gradlew.bat instead.

###Contributing

Please follow the "fork-and-pull" Git workflow while contributing to this project

Fork the repo on GitHub

Commit changes to a branch in your fork

Pull request "upstream" with your changes

Merge changes in to "upstream" repo

NOTE: Be sure to merge the latest from "upstream" before making a pull request!