Material Design

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…

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…