The Material 3 Expressive phase at Google is officially coming next month with a Pixel Feature Drop, so the company has been scrambling over the past several weeks to ensure all of its core apps are prepared in time. Yesterday, we witnessed Chrome on Android receiving the expressive treatment to its settings menu and Files by Google updating huge chunks of its UI. Now, Fitbit app on Wear OS comes to the spotlight.
New icons of apps have begun to appear
The Fitbit application of the Wear OS has begun to roll out new icons on the Google Pixel Watch series as observed by an Android Police tipster. They are redesigned to all the shortcuts of the app including Fitbit Exercise, Fitbit Relax, and Fitbit Today.
The new icons are slightly lighter in general and with more detail. Where the previous icons made use of silhouettes over colored grounds, the new ones have gradients, shading and appear on a white ground. The changes are observable in the icon-only (above) and list views (below) in the Wear OS app drawer.
New tiles are arriving as well
New Material 3 We have also spotted expressive tiles in the Pixel Watch app but they are not live on the watch side yet. Nevertheless, it is evident that Google is taking big and bubbly with the new tiles design since nearly each of the options has larger and bolder elements.
These changes were noticed by the tipster in the Android version of the Pixel Watch application 3.5.0 and the Fitbit smartwatch application 3.40, on the latest stable version of the Wear OS. However, an update will not necessarily automatically activate the new UI, since it seems that Google is rolling out the new UI in phases, with enabling Material 3 Expressive by switching it on the server side
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This isn’t the first Wear OS app to get the Material 3 Expressive treatment. Google’s Phone app started receiving its redesign on smartwatches last month, and Google Messages followed suit two weeks later. But perhaps the most exciting Material Expressive redesign is the one coming with Wear OS 6, which has been in testing since May and should make its official Google debut on the upcoming Pixel Watch 4.
