While you might have only encountered Material Design in apps and the web, Google’s open-source design system has one major real-world application. Since last year, the Museum of Modern Art in New ...

With Android 12, Google decided to revamp the design of Android a bit. And introduced the next evolution of Material Design. That is called Material You. Essentially, with Material You, once you ...

Suggestions. Pixel can suggest apps both in the app drawer and on the homescreen "based on recently used apps, most-used apps, and routines", which in principle sounds nice, but I never found it to be ...

We’ve all seen it. The “Frankenstein UI.” You grab a “home” icon from one open-source set, a “settings” cog from a different ...

Update: Following some great feedback in the comments, I have updated this article with some more awesome examples of material design: Textra, Fabulous: Motivate Me, and Material Design Lite. I have ...

Android is very customizable, and one of the ways it’s customizable is with icon packs. You can download an icon pack to put on your launcher and it’ll theme all ...

The beauty of Android's operating system lies in its ability to be customized and tailored to your preferences. You can switch your default launcher and change how the icon appears on your Android ...

Jon has been an author at Android Police since 2021. He primarily writes features and editorials covering the latest Android news, but occasionally reviews hardware and Android apps. His favorite ...

On May 13, 2025, Google announced ' Material 3 Expressive,' a UX design for Android. This is a design standard that brings uniformity to the design of Android OS icons, toolbars, buttons, etc., and is ...

Google is doubling down on Material You, its reboot of Material Design. In an announcement made earlier this month, the company said it plans on expanding the Pixel-exclusive dynamic theming to other ...