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Unraveling Angular Material (With Over 120+ Complete Samples): The book to learn Angular Material from
Learn using Angular Material from this book!
(Release v0.11.2)
Contents At a Glance:
Chapter 1: Preparing Your Study Environment
Chapter 2: Introduction to Material Design Principles
Chapter 3: Managing Layout (21 exercises)
Chapter 4: Typography, Themes, and Icons (17 exercises)
Chapter 5: Using Headers, Footers, and Tabs (14 exercises)
Chapter 6: Working with Forms and Controls (18 exercises)
Chapter 7: Menus and Dialogs (11 exercises)
Chapter 8: Working with Lists (18 exercises)
Chapter 9: Miscellaneous Components (15 exercises)
Chapter 10: Side Navigation Bar and Bottom Sheet (9 exercises)
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(Release v0.11.2)
Material Design is a modern and authentically digital design language. This book is a great opportunity to learn using it with the Angular framework.
Contents At a Glance:
Chapter 1: Preparing Your Study Environment
Chapter 2: Introduction to Material Design Principles
Chapter 3: Managing Layout (21 exercises)
Chapter 4: Typography, Themes, and Icons (17 exercises)
Chapter 5: Using Headers, Footers, and Tabs (14 exercises)
Chapter 6: Working with Forms and Controls (18 exercises)
Chapter 7: Menus and Dialogs (11 exercises)
Chapter 8: Working with Lists (18 exercises)
Chapter 9: Miscellaneous Components (15 exercises)
Chapter 10: Side Navigation Bar and Bottom Sheet (9 exercises)
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You can contact me through this e-mail: dotneteer@hotmail.com
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438 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 15, 2015
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January 24, 2016
This book is a good introduction to Angular Material UI library. Though it describes v0.11.2 of the library, while as of this writing the version is v1.0.3, the bulk of the material is still more than relevant.
Each Angular Material directive is described in a somewhat more pleasing way then online docs, and you can even download sample code of everything mentioned in the book. Sure, a couple more directives were made since v0.11.2, but they are easy to catch up once you have a solid idea of the Angular Material you'll get with this book.
That said, book has it's flaws as well.
This is a Kindle format book, which is notorious for being bad for programming books, yet the author has decided to use it. Thus when he wants something in the code to stand out, he uses bold type, which may be hard to discern on a Kindle reader.
Also author uses Angular code style from the era of Angular ~0.12.x. He uses $scope in his controllers a lot, every example is more or less designed to use one controller which simplifies communication between components, yet in real applications you'll probably have a much more complex situation where you'll need to create stand-alone components built with Angular Material which in turn will communicate with other parts of the UI through services, emits or component/directive scopes.
Author barely touches the usability of Angular Material in today's browsers as well. Since the UI library is build on top of CSS flexbox, it is pretty much unusable until many browsers die out. You cannot count on IE less than v10, you cannot count it'll work on many Androids prior to Android v4.4, and even on them it's flaky sometimes, and so on.
Thus this book is good for getting your feet wet, for trying to use it in your personal project or in some specific intranet application where you have the control of which browser is used. By the time this library fixes remaining lingering problems with some of it's directives, and by the time we can use it without thinking of browser support of general users, this book will probably be obsolete.
Each Angular Material directive is described in a somewhat more pleasing way then online docs, and you can even download sample code of everything mentioned in the book. Sure, a couple more directives were made since v0.11.2, but they are easy to catch up once you have a solid idea of the Angular Material you'll get with this book.
That said, book has it's flaws as well.
This is a Kindle format book, which is notorious for being bad for programming books, yet the author has decided to use it. Thus when he wants something in the code to stand out, he uses bold type, which may be hard to discern on a Kindle reader.
Also author uses Angular code style from the era of Angular ~0.12.x. He uses $scope in his controllers a lot, every example is more or less designed to use one controller which simplifies communication between components, yet in real applications you'll probably have a much more complex situation where you'll need to create stand-alone components built with Angular Material which in turn will communicate with other parts of the UI through services, emits or component/directive scopes.
Author barely touches the usability of Angular Material in today's browsers as well. Since the UI library is build on top of CSS flexbox, it is pretty much unusable until many browsers die out. You cannot count on IE less than v10, you cannot count it'll work on many Androids prior to Android v4.4, and even on them it's flaky sometimes, and so on.
Thus this book is good for getting your feet wet, for trying to use it in your personal project or in some specific intranet application where you have the control of which browser is used. By the time this library fixes remaining lingering problems with some of it's directives, and by the time we can use it without thinking of browser support of general users, this book will probably be obsolete.
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