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As teased with the launch of Android 12 last month, Gmail is rolling out a new Material You widget that's quite powerful.

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As teased in recent weeks, Google Drive now offers a new Material You widget on Android 12 that lets you "quickly access suggested files and search."

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The Google Photos "Your memories" widget introduced in August is set to get a Material You upgrade that will let you customize the shape, just like in the Pixel 6 promo videos.

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In time for Android 12 and the Pixel 6's launch, many of Google's biggest apps have already been updated to Material You. At the 2021 Android Dev Summit, Google fully detailed Material Design 3 and showed off the updated UI components that developers can use to build their apps.

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Just before the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro event last week, the latest Google app beta introduced Material You weather widgets on Android 12. Google has now updated the widgets with more size configurations and an hourly forecast.

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In addition to Turntable at the start of this month, YouTube Music on Android 12 is set to get another Material You widget called "Now Playing & Recently played."

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Android 12 is rolling out now to current Pixel phones, and Google took the Pixel 6 launch as an opportunity to preview more Material You widgets from major first-party apps.

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In a very welcome change from what we previously expected, the Google Weather Material You widgets are now live on existing Pixel phones with the latest Google app beta.

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Google is rolling out an update to the "Sounds" app on Pixel phones that introduces a Material You redesign, as well as the new "Material Adventures" collection.

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With Android 12 Beta 5 last month, Google introduced Material You clock widgets. An update to Google Clock is rolling out today with a brand new widget and a grand total of five clock styles to choose from.

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Back in August, Google widely rolled out a visual revamp of its wearable Play Store. Google Clock now looks to be the next Wear OS app to get a Material You redesign.

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Google applications on iOS have long been criticized for not feeling native to the platform. Earlier this year, the company's designers reviewed their approach for developing iOS apps and opted for a change.

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Google's Material You rollout continues with the Play Store over the last 24 hours, but this redesign is not too visually encompassing ye and availability is quite limited.

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The latest beta version of Google Messages widely introduces a Material You redesign, but the Dynamic Color aspect for Pixel devices running Android 12 is currently incomplete.

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At the start of last month, we enabled a new YouTube Music widget for Android that was first teased in Pixel 6 ads. The "Turntable" widget is now briefly appearing for some YouTube Music users today.

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Compared to the last design language revamp, Google's rollout of Material You is happening at a much faster pace. That Material You app update blitz comes amid a barrage of Pixel 6 advertising and that's no coincidence. It's the sign of a well-under-way vision at Google that has been sorely missing.

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The Material You rollout continues with Google One getting a redesign that leverages Dynamic Color. However, the bigger update is a dark theme that replaces the previous bright look.

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New Pixel phones released in the fall usually launch with exclusive software features that later become available on older Google phones. The Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro will be the first to feature Material You weather widgets powered by the Google app.

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Compared to other redesigns, Material You for Google Calendar is very straightforward, but the widgets do benefit from one handy tweak.

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Last week, Google rolled out the latest version of its browser and kicked off the new four-week release cadence. Chrome 94 is now widely rolling out on Android, and it brings along Material You, as well as Dynamic Color on newer devices.

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Google today opened submissions for the 2021 Material Design Awards. Now in its seventh year, the company is looking for apps with great dark theme, large screen, and motion implementations.

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In announcing that Keep is getting a Material You redesign, Google yesterday failed to mention that new widgets were also inbound. We've since enabled them, and they're absolutely fantastic.

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Google's various Material You revamps just keep coming, today with the arrival of Google Duo's redesign.

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Last week, Google announced that Material You is actively rolling out to the key Workspace apps on Android, including Drive. The Google Drive redesign also brings along new widgets including a quirky and large X-shaped one.

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Android 12 brings a renewed focus on widgets with Google Photos and Clock — just this week — serving as key examples. YouTube Music is working on a Material You widget, and we've enabled a preview of it.

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In June, Google redesigned Discover to be "more streamlined" by removing article descriptions and making other visual tweaks. On Android 12, the Google Discover feed to the left of the Pixel Launcher has added more Material You flourishes.

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Ahead of the broader Material You redesign, Google is rolling out a small tweak to one particular important and frequently used component in apps. The time picker UI across Google's Android apps are getting updated to a new, more touch-friendly design.

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Yesterday, the team behind Material You said that the new design language will be a "multiyear journey that will evolve all of Google's products and ecosystems." At the "What's new in Material Design" session, Google designers provided an in-depth preview of Material You and its guiding principles.

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"Material You" is Google's "radical new way to think about design." It's a hyper-personalized approach to designing custom appearances for apps and other interfaces that adapts to users, starting on Android.

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Ahead of I/O 2021 next week, Google has updated Material Design to expand its "adaptive capabilities to help prepare your apps for all form factors," namely large screens. Most developers today are focused on phones, but the company is specifically looking at tablets and desktops. This takes the form of new guidance and design documents, as well as updated components.

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Given how "typography and iconography are so strongly related," Google Fonts is adding Material icons and getting a new logo in the process.

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With the first Android 12 Developer Preview, a massive redesign of the Settings app was discovered, pointing to a revamp of Google's Material Design. Let's take an exploratory look at what some of Google's other Android apps could look like with these next generation Material Design cues.

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Most people primarily experience Material Design in Android apps, while web adoption is mostly limited to Google's first-party sites. A new Material Design for WordPress plugin, which Google currently calls an experiment, possibly opens up the look to many more pages and blogs.

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Now in its sixth year, the 2020 Material Design Award winners were announced this morning. There are just three categories this year covering the best dark theme, use of motion, and Material Theming.

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Google Authenticator is a very straightforward app that provides 2-step verification codes when signing-in to third-party sites. The Android app saw its last update in 2017, but Google Authenticator 5.10 today introduces a Material Theme redesign and account transfer feature.

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