With Android 12, still in its beta phase, a major redesign of the operating system has arrived. ‘Material You ‘leaves behind the famous’ Material Design’ that has accompanied the operating system for more than five years and now system apps are gradually adapting to new design patterns. Design patterns consisting of dynamic themes that affect the entire visual appearance.
The latest Google app to adapt to this new adaptive design is Chrome, which already shows the arrival of ‘Material You’ through its latest beta in the Canary program. Thus, Google’s proprietary browser will not take long to bring this adaptive design to the free version for all users, although you will have to have Android 12 to enjoy it.
Chrome Canary already adapts to the colors of Android 12
Future changes have been hunted in Chrome Canary, the beta version of Google’s browser in the Android ecosystem. Through the code of the latest version, the activation code of the new design for Android 12 has been hunted, for now through a couple of flags to be activated manually as they are hidden in the settings of the browser itself.
The first of the flags is theme-refactor-android and it is in charge of enabling the reconfiguration of the Chrome theme on Android. The second flag is dynamic-color-android, it is responsible for enabling the dynamic color of the browser on supported devices, for now those present in the Android 12 beta. We assume that in the future it will be supported by any device updated to Android 12.
Once both flags are activated, just restart Chrome Canary to start seeing how the new dynamic themes work in the browser. As can be seen in the screenshots, Chrome begins to adapt the background of the window, the search bar and other elements, the design being even more homogeneous when Gboard, the Google keyboard, is opened to perform a search.
For now, as we have said, these ‘Material You’ themes for Chrome only work in the Canary version, although we assume, given its advanced state of operation, that they will soon reach the standard version of Google Play. Meanwhile it will be time to wait. Remember that the definitive release of Android 12 is already around the corner.
Via | Android Police