Wrote an application using standard (clumsy) widgets. How to make a beautiful design of the application? Using XML or just inserting pictures instead of buttons? Tell me how to do it better? What articles to read?

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    This is called a guideline , and here you can familiarize yourself with all the principles.

    In order to use it in your application, you will need to refer to the AppCompat support library - when I first encountered the android, for a long time I could not understand where the tabs, FAB, animations from Coordinator Layout , etc. come from.

    I hope I gave an exhaustive answer. If you have any questions, add a comment, update.

    • AppCompatActivity one of the components of the AppCompat support library, not the name of the library. - pavlofff
    • @pavlofff for sure, he messed with the devil, I'll fix it now. - Silento

    I make the buttons through ImageView, then I hook them to OnClickListener. But in any case, all the markup is done via xml. Theoretically, you can typeset through LayoutParams, but this is a bad practice

      You can also see here Material Design: to the moon and back