What is Material Design and why it is going to rock it –

For a long time, iOS apps for iPhone were much prettier and more attractive than Android apps. But with Google Material Design, that’s history.

What is Material Design? Why was it created? What news has there been recently? Today we tell you everything.

What is Google Material Design

We talk about some design guides that Google created for its own applications. Building on the work of its top creatives, Material Design serves to make apps more attractive and intuitivefollowing beautiful and modern design patterns.

Furthermore, this guide is available to all programmers, so that, above all, the applications on your Android phone are the envy of everyone else.

Why Material Design was born

If you have been with Android for some time and remember the first applications and versions of the operating system, you will also remember how “ugly” it was. There is no other way to say it, you saw the iPhone apps and they all followed a modern and attractive style that set the trend.

Meanwhile, on Android, since it is more open and free, everyone designed as they wanted. Thus, some applications were made with very good taste and others… Well, others were to hide in the basement, we are not going to lie… But, above all, there was no uniformityan identity that would make you recognize that something was from Android and, in addition, it was so beautiful that you would want to show it off to your friends.

And since design is very important, and that is why Apple sells phones for twice the price of most, in 2014 Google introduced Material Design. That is, design guides and standards for Android, but also for other web or computer applications.

In addition, it began to apply that design to its own apps: Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive… So they soon began to be uniform and attractive.

Before, you could have a very good idea, but if you didn’t know about design, you created apps that were very useful, but not very attractive…

Now, design is easier than ever for app makers. They just have to follow the Google Material Design guide, and grab the graphic elements they need. Thus, Google achieves with Android what it always wanted, which was as visually attractive to the user as iOS applications.

The new version of Material Design 2.0

Material Design has recently released its new version 2.0 and, if you use Google tools on the web or on your phone, you will see that they have changed their design, now they are much cooler.

Darker colors when you want to highlight something, lots of white everywhere and more rounded buttons These are some of the hallmarks of Material Design 2.

With this, the applications become more diaphanous and minimalist, following the modern style that predominates now, away from the ornate, the relief and the details. All very clean!

The design of many Android phones means that they no longer have anything to envy of iPhones on the outside. With Material Design, Google wants them to have nothing to envy inside either. Wish granted!