Almost all Android developers are now rolling the Material Design in their app
After months of testing, Facebook has rolled out it own Material Design-inspired version of Messenger on Android.
The update, which launched yesterday on Google Play, takes a leaf from the modern design principles and has since applied to its own apps on iOS, Android, and the web.
The two main changes to Messenger are a new solid-blue navigation bar at the top with white icons for timeline, groups, people, and settings. This strip replaces the old white bar at the top with grey icons. The same goes for the status bar, which is now blue with white text and action icons.
That feature has now been replaced by a blue circle with a plus symbol,
known in Material Design parlance as a floating action button, as seen
in apps such as Hangouts, Inbox, and a few others from Google on iOS and
Android.
The older design also employed a blue bar but that was located at the bottom, offering an entry point to search and start a new chat.
The design was announced on social media by facebook Messenger boss David Marcus
"If you're using Messenger on Android, you've been wanting a brand-new material design for a bit. Any major redesign of an essential app used by hundreds of millions of people around the world is painstakingly hard, and that's why we took every precaution to ensure you'd truly enjoy this evolution," Marcus said in a Facebook post.
Facebook doesn't appear to have introduced any new features to its Android chat app.
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