# Material Design Everywhere: Using AppCompat 21

DevFeed: [Material Design Everywhere: Using AppCompat 21](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/material-design-everywhere-using-appcompat-21-27200.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://antonioleiva.com/material-design-everywhere>)

Published: 2014-10-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Antonio Leiva](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/antonio-leiva.md>)

Topics: [Material Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/material-design.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [layout](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/layout.md>), [material-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/material-design.md>), [toolbar](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/toolbar.md>), [tutorials](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tutorials.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on using AppCompat 21 to add Material Design to Android apps while supporting older API levels. It covers project setup, themes, Lollipop-specific transitions, and replacing the ActionBar with the Toolbar.

## Source excerpt

Everything Android, Kotlin and other random topics