

Google is also prominently promoting the use of Jetpack Compose, the Kotlin-based declarative UI framework built in collaboration with Jetbrains. Or you can use the Material Theme Builder to check out exactly what your app would look like across any Material You theme you can imagine. There’s also guidance for things like how to enable Material You’s dynamic colors while keeping your app’s own branding intact. To get developers started with using Material You for their own apps, Google has overhauled the Material Design developer website to show the new way that components should look, act, and feel. Over the past few months, Google has redesigned many of its core apps to be in line with Material You.

Along with other tweaks, the biggest change of Material You is the use of a dynamic color pallet, typically generated from your current wallpaper.

As part of this year’s Android Dev Summit, Google has unveiled a suite of new tools for developers, making it easier to use the new Material You design language and create apps for larger screens.īack at Google I/O, Google unveiled their third iteration of Material Design, the colorful new Material You, which has finally debuted in Pixel phones with Android 12.
