Angular Material is a UI library component developed by Google in 2014. It is specially designed for AngularJS developers. It helps to design the application in a structured manner. Its components help to construct attractive, consistent, and functional web pages and web applications. It is used to create a responsive and faster website.

It attracts users and accesses the elements or components present in our application. It also helps to design our applications with unique styles and shapes.

These components make the application or website more consistent and design responsive. It combines the classic principles of successful design with innovation and technology.

Google developed Angular Material in 2014. At that time, it was tagged to AngularJS to make the applications more attractive and faster performance. Google wrote the code again from scratch and removed JS, then named it Angular Material in September 2016. UI/UX components are known as Angular Materials.

Features of Angular Material

• It is an In-built responsive design.
• Angular Material has standard CSS.
• The new version of UI Components, buttons, checkboxes, and text fields is used to follow Angular Material Design concepts.
• It has specialized features such as cards, toolbar, speed dial, side nav, swipe, side nav, and more.
• It is a cross-platform browser, and it is used to create web components.

Why Angular Material Design

Material Design aims to unify the user experience on the web, mobile, and tablet devices. Angular Material Design is built with the help of AngularJS, Polymer (js library for creating Web Components, i.e., custom HTML elements), and Ionic (a UI framework built to create hybrid mobile apps based on Html5). In this way, it's full of Angular, Polymer, and Ionic UI features. It will help you to create a rich, interactive, and device-oriented UI for your Web app. Still, this is in an early preview stage, but it promises a lot to make a modern device-oriented Web app UI.

So if you want to make a SPA with angular, it will be the best choice for you. It will help the developer focus on the application BI implementation part, not on the UI part.

Simple Steps to Install Angular Material Design

• Install the Angular CLI
• Create a workspace for Angular Project
• Install Angular Material, Angular CDK, and Angular Animations
• Configure animations
• Import the Angular Material component modules
• Gesture Support

Angular Material: Autocomplete

The Md AutoComplete is utilized as a special input control with an integrated drop-down menu to display all possible matches for a custom query. As soon as there is an input, the Autocomplete serves as a suggestion box. You can use the <md-autocomplete> to provide search results from different data sources (local or remote), md-autocomplete cache results when querying. After the first call, the cached results are used to remove unnecessary requests from the server or search logic and can be disabled.

Layout Directive

The layout directive for a container item is used to indicate the direction of its children's layout. The following values can be attributed to the layout Directive:

• Row - The elements are arranged horizontally with the maximum height = 100%. The maximum width is the width of the elements in the container.
• Column - The elements are arranged vertically with the maximum width = 100%. The maximum height is the height of the elements in the container.

To make the design responsive, changing the layout automatically based on the size of the device's screen, the layout APIs listed in the following table can be used to define the layout for devices with display width.

• Layout: Defaults layout direction unless stated otherwise
• layout-xs: width < 600px
• layout-gt-xs: width >= 600px
• layout-sm: 600px <= width < 960px
• layout-gt-sm: width >= 960px
• layout-md: 960px <= width < 1280px
• layout-gt-md: width >= 1280px
• layout-lg: 1280px <= width < 1920px
• layout-gt-lg: width >= 1920px
• layout-xl: width >= 1920px

Angular Material- Buttons

The <mat-button> is an Angular directive used to create a button using content styling and animations. The buttons for the Angular material are native <button> or <a> elements with additional styling and ink ripples

Both the <button> and <a> are usable in offering accessible experience for users. The <button> is used when any action is being carried out. However, when the user change to another view, use the <a> element.

The components used are group classes such as md-primary, md-accent, md-warn, and other classes like md-hue-1, md-hue-2, or MD-hue-3, when it comes to their color differences. The components below can be used with the classes mentioned above.

• md-button
• md-checkbox
• md-progress-circular
• md-progress-linear
• md-radio-button
• md-slider
• md-switch
• md-tabs
• md-text-float
• md-toolbar

You can also change the themes with $mdThemingProvider while configuring your application. You can utilize the properties below to assign various color palettes.

• primaryPalette
• accentPalette
• warnPalette
• backgroundPalette

Angular Material List

<Mat-list> Is an angular directive used for creating a container to carry and format different objects. It offers a material design styling. However, it does not possess any behavior.

Angular Material is a library of UI components developed by Angular to create design components for mobile or desktop apps. The <mat-list> tag is useful in displaying a list of objects or records.

Examples of Angular Material List

• Simple lists
• Navigation lists
• Action lists
• Selection lists
• Multi-line lists
• Lists with Icons
• Lists with Avatars
• Dense Lists
• Lists with Multiple Sections

Angular Material – Grids

The md-grid list is an Angular material component used to layout content for different screen sizes. There are different columns for different screen sizes; for example, the desktop has 12, the tablet size screen has 8, and the phone size screen has 4. Each screen size has an already defined margin and gutter. The cells are organized in the order in which they are defined.

• md-cols: This is for the number of columns in the grid.
• md-row-height: This can be;
• CSS length: Fixed height rows ( 8px or 1rem).
• {width}:{height} − Ratio of width to height (eg. md-row-height = "16:9").
• "fit": This gives height by dividing available heights by several rows.
• md-gutter: The amount of space between tiles in CSS units (default 1px).
• md-on-layout: Evaluates after layout. The event object is available as $event and contains performance information.

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