With Beta 3 earlier this week, Google’s upcoming design language is appearing in more places throughout the OS. Some Android 12 users are now seeing the Gboard Material You redesign live.
Update 7/20: The Gboard Material You redesign, with its “Dynamic Color” option in “Theme” settings, is appearing for more people today following last week’s initial availability. However, it’s not available for all users yet.
That said, many people are seeing the Google Sans font in Gboard on Android 12. Older devices are not seeing this change yet. The uppercase ‘G’ and ‘Q’ — which is slightly wider — exhibit the most obvious differences.
Original 7/16: As we previously enabled last month, the Google keyboard redesign varies depending on whether you have “Key borders” enabled. If you don’t, the ‘?123’ key and spacebar are placed in pill-shaped buttons and adopt a rather dull hue based on your system color.
Meanwhile, the return key is similarly shaped, but — along with the ‘expand’ key in the top suggestions strip — is much brighter and vibrant in color. The gesture trial is similarly and rather delightfully themed.
If borders are enabled, ‘return’ and ‘expand’ are the brightest keys and placed in circles. ‘123?’ is also a circle and quite dark. However, there is a third level of key theming that slots in between the other two shades for caps lock, comma, period, and backspace. Lastly, the background is themed, while all other keys are lighter/white.
A handful of users are seeing this Gboard Material You redesign, but it’s not widely available yet. Both beta and stable channel Gboard users are encountering this phased rolled out. For more color examples, check our post last month.
Google’s keyboard app has undergone a number of A/B tests in recent months, including one variant that made use of a sheet. However, we believe this looks to be the final design.
More about Gboard:
- Google redesigns nearly 1,000 emoji; coming to Gmail & Chrome OS in July, Android 12 this fall
- Gboard rolling out updated Emoji Kitchen in beta that brings back the blobs
- Gboard clipboard starts surfacing and suggesting recent screenshots
- Gboard for Wear OS hands-on: Tiny touchscreen typing done right [Video]
Author: Abner Li
Source: 9TO5Google
