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...
by dbadmin | Oct 25, 2025 | Android 16, Features, Google, Google Pixel, Material 3 Expressive
When the first signs of Material 3 Expressive started showing up in Android’s QPR betas, I wasn’t impressed. Even as my colleague Mishaal raved about it and how good it looked and documented its progress in every beta, I still didn’t jump on that hype train. When the...
by dbadmin | Oct 20, 2025 | Authority Insights, Google, Google Play Store, Material 3 Expressive, News
TL;DR Google’s been working to modernize the Play Store’s interface, recently giving it a new gradient-shaded status bar. The app’s also working on a couple more Expressive updates, including a new loading indicator. Card UI may also be updated to move text away from...
by dbadmin | Oct 1, 2025 | Android 16, Features, Material 3 Expressive
Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority It was a long time coming, but Google finally brought its Material 3 Expressive redesign to Pixel phones running Android 16 earlier this month. This style brings bolder text, more prominent toggles, and new animations. I...
by dbadmin | Sep 16, 2025 | Android 16, Material 3 Expressive, News, Polls, Survey Results
Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Google launched the stable Android 16 update back in June, but we had to wait a few months for the promised Material 3 Expressive redesign to appear. Fortunately, this visual overhaul landed in early September, giving us a fresh...
