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Google announces Android 16 design overhaul with Material 3 Expressive

Brahm Daniel Verano

May 17, 2025

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Material 3 Expressive design language announced for mobile and wearable devices.

Material 3 Expressive design language announced for mobile and wearable devices. (Image: Google/The Keyword)

Material 3 Expressive is the newest design language on Android and it's coming to Android 16.

MANILA, Philippines — Technology company Google has announced Material 3 Expressive for Android and Wear OS in a blog post on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. It is the newest design language on Android (and Wear OS) which aims to add a 'unique' style and personality to the platform.

Material 3 Expressive for Android and Wear OS

Material 3 Expressive is a new design language by Google, which offers a 'more personal, expressive phone experience'. It is the successor to the Material Design 3 that has been around since Android 12. It features a jam-packed customization system, has bouncy animations and a fluid-like geometry — a dynamic approach for the next-generation aesthetic.

It also has a Live Updates feature which brings delivery-related notifications to life.

Meanwhile, Wear OS also gets a color-based theming system for wearable devices (which initially debuted on Android 12 alongside Material Design 3) as part of the design overhaul — it will be available on Wear OS 6.

Material 3 Expressive is coming to Android 16 and Wear OS 6 later this year.

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Brahm Daniel Verano

Brahm Daniel Verano is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of androidist. He is a consumer technology journalist and a phone critic with half a decade of smartphone coverage and gadget reviewing experience in between. He founded the publication in 2019, later becoming one of the Philippines' first news websites dedicated to reporting on Android. He is among a few who have reviewed the first OnePlus tablet and has attended major tech events held locally, including Galaxy Unpacked. He is currently taking up a Bachelor of Science in Information and Technology at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. He can be reached at brahm@androidist.net or @liafourte on X.

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