Material Design 3: The new revolution for app developers and designers
You may have heard of Google Material Design, and if you design or develop for the Android platform, chances are you've already used it. In short, Material Design is all the parts that make up the user interface.
This is a library of the visual design of buttons and icons, the transition animations between pages (Transitions), the textures and shadows of each element on the page, and many other aspects.
Google's Material Design vs. Material You
Google has released a new version of Material You, its design language for Android apps. The update brings Material Design to the next level by giving users more control over their user experience. Material You is Google's design language, created in 2014. It is a set of guidelines created by Google to improve the overall look and feel of Android apps with consistent and innovative design methods.
Material You, the latest version of Material Design, marks a whole new approach to app design. One that can be dynamically and personally adjusted to the personal taste of each user.
With Material You, Google's ambition is to support all designers "to create personal and personal designs for every style, accessible for every need, vivid and adapted to every screen". and bring back the creativity and excitement in creating and using Android apps.
From now on, widget apps can be customized based on users' wallpaper color palettes. What's particularly clever about this approach is that it doesn't require any extra effort from users, given that most of us already customize our wallpaper, OS colors and the overall appearance of the device.
What's new in Material Design 3?
Dynamic colors
Dynamic colors are one of the most intelligent features of Material Design 3, allowing you to create a harmonious color palette for an app. You can use this feature to apply colors that make up your user's wallpaper image to text, icons, backgrounds, and even illustrations.
User interface components (Components)
The UI components are fresh, playful and unique, with a focus on simple components that work well together. They use modern Material Design principles to visually communicate interactions and create consistency through color, shape and movement.
Support for foldable devices
App and user experience designers can easily create great user interfaces and interactions with the new editing tools provided in Material Design. In Compositions, you can easily display lists of information on the left side of the screen, so you can focus the right side of your screen on the details of a single item or subject.
Token design
Design tokens (Tokens) are a new feature designed to improve the joint work and collaboration between the design teams. The time saving potential is huge for large teams working on building multiple applications. Tokens carry dynamic style values - colors, fonts, measurements - that can be updated across an entire project with the click of a button. These tokens allow teams to manage and move styles from one place across design and implementation phases on all platforms (not just Android).
How to switch to Material Design you?
Below are essential tools and links
M3: Guidelines for Material Design
Material Theme Builder is a must-have tool for anyone who wants to explore dynamic colors. Google's design platform allows you to visualize how dynamic colors will look in your application, create the custom color palettes for your task and export everything more easily. Material Theme Builder is a powerful tool that allows you to create and customize themes for your Android app. This tool can also be used to create custom shades of colors that are not available in the color palette. Figma plugin and link toGoogle's design platform.
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