A little more than a week ago, a person on the Google design team published the new design language details, called Expressing materials 3. This morning, as part of “The Android Show”, it made it public public and shared how Android is about to change on your phone from the user interface to applications and interactions. They call this one of our biggest updates in the design years.
To be clear, this is a new update for design for Android and Wear OS, and you can read about the operating system changes in this post. For this, we focus on what changes for your Android phone, starting with the Google Pixel line, which is about to see the first taste at the end of May, most likely with the stable launch of Android 16 system. Wide operation will occur later this year.
So there are many things about the expressive 3 materials that Google wants to know: animation, procedures, dynamic colors, more customization, applications design, and a general weight experience in general.
Google suggests this Article 3 Expressing update will make Android feel more fluid With the “most natural and vibrant animation” system “tries” to bring a moment of joy to the daily routine. This is because Haptics will meet at that moment, as well as finish every animated fee. Think about how to respond with your phone skillfully respond while you are doing something like dragging the notification away or descending down the notification or adjusting the sound level using a drowning tape that has been promoted. You are supposed to find this new mixture of animation and response from your phone, which may not be forgotten while completing the procedures.
With this design upgrade, you will also find Updated. All of this will help in newly customized fast settings that contain formalized procedures (a manual lamp or not bother tiles). Google describes this next level of customization as “ensuring that your important purposes are not buried in your notifications.” There will be a blurring of backgrounds “to provide a feeling of depth” and to make the movement feel “lightweight” without boycotting everything behind any work.
Google is also Planning to update Google applications such as photos, Gmail and Fitbit To meet the new user interface for Android. In briefing, I had about this news, I am sure I remember I saw the dark feature of the Fitbit application as well, so that it is still coming (since 2023), and we hope to see this year. You can see a preview of the application is updated above.
Finally, Google talked about Live updates feature that comes to Android 16And that we saw from the first android 16 experimental race. These are continuous notifications that you will find on the lock screen that shows the condition of something, such as Uber or Oper Order, or some other applications of the type of navigation. This is a feature that Samsung is trying to get out of the user interface 7 and that Apple has made it two years ago.
Mateial 3 Expressive is really a great upgrade with more colors, more animation, more customization, and update for applications to match. Since Google does this and wants to display new things on pixel phones, the Pixel line will get all this first. We must see some of them by the end of May, but the great launch will happen “later this year.”
If you want to read more about the reason for Google the changes they made, Their design blog has a deep diving (It was published a week ago).
