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What even is Material You and why do so many apps on F-Droid brag about having it?
2023-11-04 · 3 months ago
@november: I think it's a visual style for GUIs, and from what I understand it's supposed to be less visually cluttered than whatever style was popular before it... But I might be wrong.
That’s a design code developed by evil corp (google) to make things larger and more usable on the modern giant smartphones. And I guess developers list it in the info about their app to say that it will look like a system app on recent androids, 13 or 14 version.
it doesn't help the fact that they hold advertising and browser monopoly, and actively turning the whole web into a spyware hellscape. A couple of opensource projects isn't enough for their long gone reputation
👻 mediocregopher [...] · Nov 05 at 14:41:
What google has done with Android is imperfect, but given the only other alternative I'm willing to give them the W. The rest of google is hard to redeem.
🐝 november [OP...] · Nov 05 at 17:49:
Please stop simping for Google in my subspace.
🐻 moddedBear · Nov 06 at 15:04:
It's the most recent visual design language that Google has been using for a couple years now. One of the most noticeable features is that it derives colors for the UI based on your current wallpaper.