android - how to use material design features in api lower than 21 in eclipse?

Question

there are many questions regarding this but not even single helped me.

So please tell me how to enable material design features in eclipse.

i have also imported appcompat_v7 library in project but it does not create a folder with name values_v21 which helps in using those feature i think.

So please help me out in this

here is my styles.xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/AppTheme_ActionBar</item>
        <item name="android:actionBarSize">@dimen/action_bar_height</item>
        <item name="android:windowContentOverlay">@drawable/actionbar_shadow</item>
        <item name="android:homeAsUpIndicator">@drawable/ic_ab_up_compat</item>
       <item name="android:actionBarTabTextStyle">@style/tabtextcolor</item>
        <item name="android:actionOverflowButtonStyle">@style/AppTheme_ActionBar_Overflow</item>
    </style>

    <style name="AppTheme_ActionBar" parent="android:Widget.Holo.ActionBar.Solid">
        <item name="android:background">@color/apptheme_primary</item>
         <item name="android:actionBarTabTextStyle">@style/tabtextcolor</item>
        <item name="android:icon">@drawable/actionbar_icon_placeholder_compat</item>
        <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/AppTheme_ActionBar_Title</item>
    </style>

    <style name="AppTheme_ActionBar_Title" parent="android:TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
        <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/white</item>
        <item name="android:textSize">20sp</item>
    </style>

    <style name="AppTheme_ActionBar_Overflow" parent="android:Widget.ActionButton.Overflow">
        <item name="android:src">@drawable/ic_ab_overflow_compat</item>

    </style>


    <style name="tabtextcolor" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.TabText">
    <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/white</item>
</style>
</resources>

Answer 1

There are some points you should check:

• Import into eclipse, last version of android-support-v7-appcompat project. You should update via SDK Manager, and import project from {your_path_to_android_sdk}/extras/android/support/v7/appcompat
• Add this project as library dependency to your project

• In styles.xml use Theme.AppCompat.Light or Theme.AppCompat:

  style name="AppTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light"