Gmail for Android’s Material 3 Expressive redesign continues with a new search app bar, while the “Mark as read” action in notifications is now widely rolling out. When the first Gmail users started getting Material 3 Expressive in June, the message list and body was placed in containers. There’s also a prominent swipe action animation in your inbox. Google is …
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Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides are the latest first-party apps to get various Material 3 Expressive tweaks. The updates in these three apps specifically apply to the editor interface. Google has yet to refresh the homepage. It starts with the new M3 Expressive progress indicator as you wait for a document to open. Specifically, it’s a circular component with the wavy …
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Google announced its new design language in May. Material 3 Expressive redesigns have been slowly rolling out to Google apps since then, and here’s our list of what’s available and still to come on Android phones. Rolling out Google Calendar Time slots (hours and days) are placed in their own rounded container throughout the app’s various views (Day, Week, Month). …
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Google Calendar is just beginning to roll out M3 Expressive on Android phones and tablets. On Wear OS, Google Calendar’s M3 Expressive Tiles are now widely available. There are no changes to the actual app (compared to a big Google Maps update), with the feed of events and tasks still pretty modern in the grand scheme. The updates are to …
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Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR Google is rolling out the Material 3 Expressive redesign to its Contacts app with v4.61.27. The redesign features prominent card-like UI across tabs like Highlights and Organize, as well as Search and Contact Details pages. Settings and New Contact pages remain unchanged for now, but are expected to follow soon. With Google Contacts app …
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The piecemeal beta rollout of M3 Expressive (M3E) in the Google Phone app continues with version 185. Google is using M3 Expressive as an opportunity to revamp how the Phone app is organized, with iOS 26 amusingly also doing the same thing with its big Liquid Glass redesign this year. The “Favorites” tab is being merged with “Recents” and is …
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A small update to Pixel VPN by Google is rolling out that adds Material 3 Expressive and makes some tweaks to the Quick Settings Tile. About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play Store. When we decompile these files (called APKs, in the case of Android …
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