Material Design

Material Design is just a concept. A set of guidelines for designers. It means that anyone can implement it using any tools on any platform. Android Lollipop makes that easier by providing built-in shadows, ripples, elevation system and clipping. Most of Lollipop things can be easily implemented on older Android versions. Carbon tries to resemble Lollipop's additions on older platforms, just like AppCompat would.

To implement each of these concepts it's neccessary to understand the principles and find the correct APIs. Let's go through the Lollipop's features and see how are they done.

• Shadows
• Elevation
• Ripples
• Clipping