Strange behavior in Android 15 leaves Material You theming color palettes being duplicated, leading to fewer options, but Google says everything is “working as intended” – then changed its mind.

One of the new features introduced in Android 12 was the ability — if you had a Pixel phone — to automatically match your phone’s color palette to that of your wallpaper, including what ...

Material You, also known as Material Design 3, is Google’s latest design language and framework. Besides Android, you’ll find it applied across Google products like the Pixel Watch and even ...

Android 12 will provide users with a more personalized appearance as part of its new interface, with the "Material You" concept offering dynamic color selections as well as easier summoning of the ...

Settings menu: Buttons and toggles now adopt your phone’s theme.; Notifications and notification center: Alerts and backgrounds reflect your chosen color palette.; To see these changes, you need ...

For example, Material You can pluck out color palettes from a wallpaper photo and intelligently choose colors that look good visually across Android’s system UI and function properly (i.e ...

Material 3 Expressive is coming later this year to refresh Android’s look. Google’s already been previewing those changes through announcements at I/O 2025, as well as its Android 16 QPR1 Beta 1.