I am having same thought as you initially. Until I saw, the latest GMail app in Android 4+, is also in Material design.
Personally, I prefer to have holo design on old Android system. However, Google seems to have intention, to push Material design all over the place, including old Android system. On Monday, May 11, 2015 at 11:27:14 PM UTC+8, MagouyaWare wrote: > > Ideally, you should style it for whatever version of Android the app is > running on. If Lollipop, then, Material, 4.x should use Holo, etc... > > On Mon, May 11, 2015, 11:22 AM yccheok <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Previously, I had an Android app, which built on the top of >> ActionBarSherlock. The app runs well on Android 2.3 till Android 5.0 >> >> Currently, I'm in the process, of migrating my app, from >> ActionBarSherlock to Google AppCompat. >> >> For the app running on Android 5.0, I'm targeting to use Material design. >> >> However, if the app is running on Android 2.3 till Android 4, should I >> make the app having Holo look, or Material look? Does Google provide any >> official guideline on this? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Android Developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Android Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
