For Pixel owners, today is a big day for Material 3 Expressive redesigns with wide rollouts for Weather, Studio, My Pixel, Buds, and VIPs, while Calculator is also seeing full availability.
After getting underway last week, Pixel Weather is now seeing wide availability of its M3 Expressive redesign via the Play Store. The biggest update — literally — is to the homepage with much taller pill-shaped cards that go from 10 to six cities. It’s not great for density, but I do appreciate being able to skim the high and low temperatures.
Meanwhile, the circular and centered search FAB is now a rounded square at the right, while there are tweaks to the actual city view with some text now centered.
Outside of M3 Expressive, the big change is how Pixel Weather is now responsible for its own homescreen widgets. The “Forecasted” widget gets some containers, but “Current weather” is unchanged from before.
Next up is Pixel Tips becoming My Pixel. It’s a combination of the old experience and a full-blown Google Store, including cart and order status. It leverages Material 3 Expressive, but a tall bottom bar. The homescreen icon is unique to your Pixel device.
The Pixel Buds companion app gets a redesigned Equalizer, while Pixel VIPs now has pill-shaped buttons for calling, messaging, video, and opening the Contacts app. Pixel Studio is also widely rolling out.
Old vs. new
In non-Pixel exclusive apps, Calculator 9.0 is widely rolling out with Material 3 Expressive (Force stop after updating), while Google Calendar now makes use of the FAB menu component.
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