That's true
@Erel.
I've changed all my apps to have slightly wider buttons
I didn't like smaller fonts size.
I've read about this happening in Material design all over the net. Testing my apps on my N5 and N7 using Andrid 5.0 and Material design yesterday gave me a couple of button issues which I've now fixed in the designer script.
I set in Manifest SDK 21 to Material theme but default theme is Holo.Light if the device is not running SDK 21. Best of both worlds.
I have seen this code on the net, but I was not 100% sure if it worked or not when it came to forcing Android 5.0 not to have pure upper case text on buttons.
<style name="TextAppearance.Material.Button">
<item name="textSize">@dimen/text_size_button_material</item>
<item name="fontFamily">@string/font_family_button_material</item>
<item name="textAllCaps">false</item>
<item name="textColor">?attr/textColorPrimary</item>
</style>