Within the standard Apple elements I believe they attempt to blur things that are at a lower level in the UI. For Material Design its all about elevation and shadows.

To add the shadow we can use the CALayer class like so.

self.layer.maskToBounds…

The material design docs state that each brand can use its own specific typeface. I choose to use Roboto with the weights thin, light, regular, medium, bold. You can find a ton of great fonts here at Google’s newly redesigned font’s page. I choose to use those weights because its an even jump from…

Color is a curial part of the Material Design framework. You can find the docs on color here. The designers at Google have taken what I assume is a great amount of time to publish and refine those docs. I think they are a MUST read for anyone who is attempting to build things with Material Design. Since…