Watch the Google I/O 2018 keynote live right here at 10 AM PT

The first official Android P details are coming, along with possible Wear OS, Daydream or Google Home software and hardware upgrades. Here's how to follow all the Google I/O 2018 action live online.

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Gmail for iOS updated to Material Design standards after four years

Gmail has a new look to it on iOS from today and it’s the look that Android users have been used to for a while now.

Google has updated the look of the Gmail app for iPhone and iPad to reflect Material Design standards and incorporate features like “Undo Send,” instant search results and swiping emails to archive/delete.

Google Calendar also had a few tweaks to support a month view and landscape view for a week. Calendar results will pop up in Spotlight Search. Also, if you follow Hindu, Islamic, Lunar or other non-Gregorian calendars, you have options to view your calendar in those terms, too.

Look to the App Store for that update button on both of these apps.

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Android app design may soon cut down on the hamburger button, take a cue from iOS

It seems that Android’s about to take a step in iOS’s direction on app design. And it actually sorta makes sense.Google’s design spec now deals with what it calls “bottom navigation,” featuring a bar with top-level category options right above system navigation. The bar is intended for three to five destinations and can jump in and out of vision based on scrolling. Ironically, larger dpi screens can get a “bottom navigation” treatment with a bar on ...

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Facebook channels Google’s Material Design guidelines for Messenger’s new look

In was back in the early days of the summer of 2014 when we were first introduced to Google’s new look for Android, as the company unveiled the Material Design style that would define the look that made Lollipop and Marshmallow what they are. With a clean, bold layout and tasteful use of transitions and shadows, the Material Design language worked its way through Google’s

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Android N has a rough sketch based on early builds

People hate flat soda. Some people hate the flats they’re living in. But techies love, love, love flatness in the GUI found on Android. Perhaps we may see more of it come Android N go-time. But does that mean we lose the cards that were a pillar of Material Design?Maybe.Android Police may have a very tentative idea of how the interface ...

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Google rumor roundup: Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Android Marshmallow

On a Thursday in New York, we’ll be waiting on Microsoft to introduce some new Lumias and LG to introduce a one-sided cyclops. But this Tuesday on the left coast, we’re chomping at the bit for some new hardware and one big reveal on software from Google. If you haven’t brushed up on the details of what we’ve been talking about, don’t worry!

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Google Now on Tap preview, Android 6.0 launcher aesthetic in Google app update

We don’t know how many of you out there have the Android M preview installed, but if you do, this could be our first public taste of what Google Now On Tap will do for us once Android 6.0 Marshmallow comes around. This is all wrapped inside an update to the Google app, version 5.3 for Android 4.4 or above.You will need ...

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Should skinned smartphones include a Material Design theme?

The Graphical User Interface comes with the lay of the land. Each phone has its own way of telling you that you’ve gone into an application or moving between screens. And every phone has the basics dressed up in a different way. Be it the calendar or SMS or the darn calculator, every OEM wants to put their colors and shapes in the way they want. Let’s face it: GUIs can look gooey.Of course, if you don’t agree with the way your smartphone decided to do up a dialer, you have your choices. This is Android, after all. And from scanning a lot of comments, I can tell that there ...

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Dropbox updates Android app with Material Design

Material Design has slowly been making its way through Google’s Play Store. Since its introduction as part of the Android L developer preview at the Google I/O developers’ conference last summer, the rollout has slowly but surely been happening. Almost a year after the formal inception of Material Design standards and guidelines, the Dropbox Android Material Design update is ready to hit devices across the globe.The new design comes as part of the v3.0.0 update, which cites the design changes as the one major focus in the update. Switching to the new design increases usability ...

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Google Clock app now available for all to install

Android skins have been one of the most polarized topics to ever reach the platform since its infancy. There was a time when Android was so ugly that it made sense for companies to provided their added touch in the user interface, but that’s far from today’s reality. Google’s Material Design has proven to be one of its most popular assets so far, and if you’re interested in getting more of it, now is the time.Google has decided to make its Clock application an application that everyone can download. This app is as barebones as it gets when it comes to the home ...

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TLDR: I’m not impressed by material design

Sorry Matias Duarte. I’m not buying it. I know you came on stage months ago and all the geeks got all googley like preteens at a One Direction meet and greet, but what really did you bring to the table? It’s just a new UI for cripes sake. I’m just not buying material design.I don’t know. I guess it’s pretty. But Duarte went out of his way to show how everything was layered in material design. My first instinct then is still my reaction today – didn’t we want everything flat just a couple of years ago? Didn’t we criticize this UI and that UI for having layers and drop ...

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Here’s a look at the Android Wear app’s Material makeover

Tired of all the Lollipop news yet? No? Good, because we sure aren’t. Amidst the news of Lollipop updates finally beginning to roll out to consumers’ phones, we’re also being swamped by a whole host of Material Design-influenced app updates from developers everywhere. Today we’re looking at an allegedly-upcoming Android Wear app update with Material Design, as well as a Google Play Services update that is necessary for it to work.Android Wear version 1.0.5.1549850 removes a lot of the Holo-esque design cues, removing the solid black background on the app’s ...

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Gmail 5.0 brings Material Design and supports other email services

Google has been gradually rolling out updates to its existing services over the last couple of weeks. We’re still a few weeks away from the official launch of Android 5.0 Lollipop to the world, but we’ve already seen what Material Design looks like in apps like the Google Play ...

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Material Design Play Store refresh now arriving

Last week we checked out a leak that detailed many of the changes coming in an upcoming Google Play Store redesign, embracing the aesthetics of Material Design with a look that was clean, with bold color, good use of white space, and big eye-catching graphics. Back then we had no real sense of how soon these changes might hit the public, or if we’d even be waiting until the Android L this fall before seeing them land. As it ...

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