Google Releases Major Update and Open Source Component for Material Design Language

Google’s flat style material design language introduced in previous years has now been adopted by many developers as a design for application user interfaces.

The company has recently made major updates to the material design language. The new version not only extends the concept of material design but also provides more preset tool components.

According to Google’s designers, the idea is that developers only need to select tools and components through the material design library and then stack and combine application development. And if developers want to customize more features can also be directly modified on the existing components, this can greatly reduce the developer’s time.

The new theme feature is designed to provide a systematic design for the developer application interface, which is mainly to reduce the challenges that developers face when designing. Google said that the most common challenge faced by development teams is that products need to be developed quickly and look good, and this feature is the killer of material design languages.

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When the development team has some ideas about the layout and interface of the application, you can directly select buttons, paging, and browsing modes through the theme editor function.

These elements can all be adjusted according to the developer’s idea and brand. This function has been applied to Google’s own programs before.

Google said that the company often receives complaints from developers about the lack of strong engineering support, so Google decided to open the components of the material design language directly.

Developers can go directly to GitHub to find the source code for these components, and then customize the components to their own preferences.

The open source includes key components such as component colors, shapes, and topic types. Google said it will release more components for developers in the second half of this year.