Google’s updated Material Design is the future of how Android apps will look

Google is making changes to the visual style and design of its software and refreshing the design guidelines for Android apps. We saw the beginning of this shift with the initial developer release of Android P earlier this year. Today at its I/O conference, Google offered more examples of the colorful icons, rounded corners, and gratuitous use of white space that mark an evolution over the initial Material Design style that’s served as the visual foundation for Google’s apps and many third-party Android apps over the last four years. You don’t have to wait to see these new design traits; they’re already visible in the redesigned Gmail experience on the web. Google says its updated, unified visual identity is also coming to (or already... Continue reading…