Material You, a new design language from Google, was initially introduced on Android 12 back in 2021; since then, it has been updating applications and widgets to their Material Design 3 look. Now, finally, it’s time for the Google Search Widget.
Google Search Widget could get a “Material You theme option,” as the report says. If the report is to be believed, a new setting page is in the developing phase that points to a “Material You theme option” for the search widget. It appears that it could get a new design in a way that matches the present Android 14’s design language.
This is being speculated by a post on X shared by a well-known tipster, @AssembleDebug, which stated that ‘The Google app redesigns the search widget customization screen.”
The tipster also attached a screenshot that reveals the widget preview shifted to the top, leaving a significant amount of empty white space at the bottom. This also hints that users only see a small wallpaper preview, which could make it harder to judge how well the widget fits into the overall theme of users’ launchers.
The Google Search widget with the latest redesign offers simpler customization as compared to before, which includes easier theme selection out of four pre-designed color themes instead of cryptic icons, which are as follows:
- System default
- Always light
- Always dark
- Device theme
The transparency slider is housed right below the theme selections. It appears that Google removed the option to create custom themes in the redesign process, but it is expected that in the upcoming development phase, this facility will be back. Apart from all this, the redesign also removed a few more menu options, due to which users will have no power to choose a different shape. Also, the redesign will make you limited to the ‘G’ logo instead of having the power to show the full Google name as per your preference.
However, at the moment, these widget settings are not available yet; the interested one has to activate a few flags on a rooted device to make them appear.
