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Design for mobile

Create your app design using Android themes and components. Leverage Android’s unique design patterns and offerings to create a beautiful, usable, modern app.

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Foundations

Fundamental concepts and principles of Android design.

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Styles

How to create beautiful visual design with color, type, motion, and theming for your app.

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Layout & content

How content should be structured within a view – from basics of layouts and grids to displaying graphics, and modern Android features, like edge-to-edge content.

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Behaviors & patterns

Interaction patterns that help your users understand, interact with, and control their experience in your app. Common behavior patterns include navigation, sharing, predictive back, and settings.

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Components

Leverage small, reusable, interactive, UI building blocks. Learn more about using Material Design components.

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Home screen

Extend your app to create unique experiences across the device by using system UI features like app widgets and notifications.

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Glossary

Understand common Android terminology.

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Accessibility

Benefit everyone by designing in accessibility support to help 15% of the world’s population communicate, learn, and work.

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Explore our kits

Explore our other Figma-based library kits, plugins, and the Material theme builder. Start building your Android app with modern themes, tools and user-generated dynamic color, or check out our Wear OS kits and TV kits to build for other devices.