Google is preparing to make Android Settings a bit more colorful
As part of new, more expressive design, the Android Settings app will have colorful icons on its homepage
- Google is preparing to make the icons on the Settings homepage more colorful.
- This is part of Google’s effort to redesign the Settings app to be more expressive.
- It’s unclear if colored icons are part of Google’s new Material Design 3 Expressive theme.
Earlier this week, we found evidence indicating Google will introduce an expressive new Material Design theme at next month’s Google I/O developer conference. Although several mentions and potential examples of this new theme have surfaced, the specifics of what the updated framework entails remain unclear. However, in the latest Android beta released recently, we spotted new evidence suggesting that colorful icons could be part of Google’s updated design guidelines.
While the fourth beta of Android 16 doesn’t bring major UI changes, Google did introduce updates to the expressive redesign it’s developing for Settings. Specifically, the Settings homepage (the first page displayed when opening the app) is getting colorful new icons for each entry. Currently, these entries feature simple gray, borderless icons to the left of the text. In the expressive redesign, however, these same icons are now enclosed within circles of different colors, adding some visual flair to the page.
