by dbadmin | Nov 19, 2025 | Features, Google, Material 3 Expressive, Samsung, Samsung One UI
Android operating systems in 2025 are what individual phone brands make of them. Android 16 is publicly available as part of the Android Open Source Project, but it’s barebones, and brands like Google and Samsung put their own twists and styling atop it — that’s how...
by dbadmin | Nov 18, 2025 | Apple, Apple iOS, Google, Material 3 Expressive, News
Credit: Joe Maring / Android Authority Android and iOS have both received visual overhauls in 2025. Android 16’s QPR1 update brought the Material 3 Expressive style to Pixel phones, while iOS 26 offered the Liquid Glass aesthetic. Colleague Rita El-Khoury felt that...
by dbadmin | Nov 5, 2025 | Android apps, Apple, Apple iOS, Features, Google, Material 3 Expressive
Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority As a full-time Android user who keeps an iPad Mini and an old iPhone 13 Pro Max on my desk to check out the supposedly greener grass, I am very happy with my digital allegiances. And when Apple rolled out its new Liquid Glass...
by dbadmin | Oct 31, 2025 | Google, Google Wear OS, Material 3 Expressive, News, YouTube Music
Credit: Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube Music on Wear OS is getting new visual elements in line with Google’s Material 3 Expressive design. The redesign is live on the Wear OS tile as well as some other elements. However, the player interface is still...
by dbadmin | Oct 31, 2025 | Google, Material 3 Expressive, News
Good interface design — the kind that’s simultaneously intuitive, beautiful, responsive, and powerful — is just so deceptively tricky to get right. Sure, it’s easy to complain about all the things we might not like about one particular UI, but there’s a big difference...
by dbadmin | Oct 27, 2025 | Authority Insights, Google, Google Clock, Material 3 Expressive, News
TL;DR Clock is dialing back its support for wallpaper backgrounds, to make sure you can still read the time. Google’s also beginning to remove references from Assistant within the app. Going forward, we may see a new “pulsing” effect for the time. These past few...
