Progress bars and sliders in Materials You’re altering in a giant method

What you should know

• Google is continuous to replace Materials You with redesigned progress bars and sliders, that are beginning to roll out now.
• Sliders are thicker and now have a vertical line head for scrubbing content material. Beforehand, they have been thinner and featured round heads.
• Progress bars now have a niche between the present progress of one thing and the tip of the bar. 

Google is altering the way in which progress bars and sliders seem and work in Materials You, as detailed in up to date Materials 3 interface pointers (through 9to5Google). They have been first launched late final yr, and the brand new UI components are beginning to attain customers now. 

Finally, the brand new progress bars and sliders will lengthen all through Materials You on Android. For now, the progress bar is confirmed to work within the Google Play Retailer app (to point out Play Factors) and within the Photographs app (to point out accessible storage). We have not seen the slider roll out publicly but, nevertheless it may quickly be coming.

So, what’s totally different? It comes down to 2 foremost design tweaks: thickness and spacing. Beforehand, sliders in Android have been extraordinarily skinny traces with massive and round scrubber heads. Now, the slider itself is far thicker and has an ovular form. The scrubber head is now a skinny line, as an alternative of a circle, with gaps separating it from the timeline bar.