🆚 Angular Material vs. Material Design Lite
- 📈 Angular Material is twice as popular as Material Design Lite.
- 🌎 Angular Material is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France.
- 🌍 Material Design Lite is more popular in Italy, Japan, and Vietnam.
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About
Angular Material is a library of UI components for Angular that implements Google's
Material Design specification.
It provides pre-built, accessible components such as buttons, forms, data tables, navigation elements, toolbars, menus, and icons, supports dynamic theming and typography, and has supported Material Design 3 since Angular 18.
Material Design Lite (MDL) is a legacy user interface framework that implements Material Design components using plain
CSS,
JavaScript, and
HTML without external dependencies.
It provides a set of ready-made UI components, such as buttons, layouts, cards, menus, sliders, and dialogs, a responsive grid system, and automatic component upgrading via JavaScript.
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Popularity by country
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Awards
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Hungary in the UI Frameworks category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Belgium in the UI Frameworks category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in South Africa in the UI Frameworks category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Ireland in the UI Frameworks category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Spain in the UI Frameworks category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Vietnam in the UI Frameworks category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Spain in the UI Frameworks category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Ukraine in the UI Frameworks category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Italy in the UI Frameworks category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Japan in the UI Frameworks category.
Popularity by domain category
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.
Material Design Lite