What’s new-Material Design 1.7.0 🎨

Nav Singh
2 min readOct 30, 2022

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In this article, we will examine the changes introduced with Material Design 1.7.0.

Minimum Requirements

  • Android Gradle Plugin(AGP) version ≥ 7.2.0
  • Gradle 7.3.3
  • Java 8
  • compileSdkVersion & targetSdkVersion ≥ 32

New MaterialSwitch component

  • It will replace the SwitchMaterial class

Compose sample code

XML sample code

New Checkbox component

MaterialCheckBox UI sample

CheckBox now supports indeterminate and ⛔️ error state

Compose sample code

XML sample code

  • For accessiblity, we can provide an errorAccessibilityLabel.
// XML
app:errorAccessibilityLabel
="Error label for accessible goes here"
// Kotlin code
setErrorAccessibilityLabel
("Error label for accessible goes here)

There are many other changes please check the release notes 🗒 here 👇

  • Redesigned BottomAppBar
  • New Shape system
  • New Icon Button support, etc.

Demo ✨✨

Demo new components

😊😊 👏👏👏👏 HAPPY CODING 👏👏👏👏 😊😊

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Nav Singh
Nav Singh

Written by Nav Singh

Google Developer Expert for Android | Mobile Software Engineer at Manulife | Organizer at GDG Montreal

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