Can I export a render of the material view mode? So as you probably know, Blender allows different viewport shading mode (e.g. solid, wireframe, etc), and I was wondering if I could render / export an animation of the material view mode.

I want to do this in order to show the animation of my project without having to wait for a full render or using an extremely low sample rate (which, quite frankly, looks disgusting).

Is this at all possible?
Yes, it is possible, it is called OpenGL rendering. The leftmost buttons on the bottom of the 3D View will do this:



You will get a rendering of the current viewport, either a still picture (left) or the full animation (right). Just switch to Material view and press the button.