Learning Material Design

Customizing the material theme

One of the most useful features of the material theme is the way it can take a small palette made of only a handful of colors and incorporate these colors into every aspect of a UI. Text and cursor colors, the way things are highlighted, and even system features such as the status and navigation bars can be customized to give our apps brand colors and an easily recognizable look.

The use of color in Material Design is a topic in itself, and there are strict guidelines regarding color, shade, and text, and these will be covered in detail later in the book. For now, we will just look at how we can use a style to apply our own colors to a material theme.

So as to keep our resources separate, and therefore easier to manage, ...