Finally we are in the month of Google I/O, the event in which the company will present its novelties for the rest of the year; Android 16 will have its own separate conference, highlighting the large number of novelties that are expected for the operating system, such as the new Android XR for augmented reality devices.
For smartphone users, the great novelty will undoubtedly be The adoption of Material 3 Expressivethe new design philosophy that represents an evolution with respect to You, used in the last versions of Android.
Great changes are expected with Expressive Material, such as the return of the blur effects, although not all will arrive at the same time. In the same way, apps that are pre -installed by default will also adopt the new design, and in some cases, they will take advantage of changes in the interface.
One of the apps that will change is The official Google clock appwhich is installed in many Android smartphones and in the Pixel; It is one of those apps that fulfill their function and fulfill it well, without many floritures, but that is just what most users want, especially to create new alarms. With Android 16, the clock app will receive interesting changes, both in functional design and in the visual aspect, as they have been able to discover in Mystic Leaks.
Screen catches reveal that the “expressive design” of material 3 express will be noticed in the use of new fonts and larger buttons and in different ways; Although the disposition of the controls and the menus remains the same, these changes are enough to seem a different app. For example, a very curious detail is that it is now easier to distinguish between active and deactivated alarms; The latter appear with very off colors compared.
New design of the Google clock app with Material 3 Expressive
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Another interesting detail is in the size of the interface elements: Now everything is biggersomething that is easy to see in a comparison. In the current design, up to six alarms are shown at the same time on the screen, but only four alarms are shown. This will have to do scroll more times if we have many alarms, but in return, it should be easier to distinguish and read their details, such as the days that are active.
The part that has changed the most is the screen to create a new alarm. In the current design, it is an emerging window that appears on the list of alarms, but in the new design it is A separate screen which occupies almost all available space.
The rest of the app sections have also received changes, such as the stopwatch, which now has the starting button and pause integrated inside. To all this, we must add internal changes in the development of the app, which should make it softer.
