Google’s collaborative messaging platform, Google Chat, is beginning to experiment with a visible replace to get with the occasions.
Following within the footsteps of different core Google apps like Gmail, Google Images, Chrome, Google Messages, and extra, Google’s new Materials 3 Expressive design language is now making its strategy to Google Chat.
This comes quickly after the platform gained enhanced Gemini summaries, paired with an early have a look at Gemini’s performance on the platform’s Android app.
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For reference, a few of these modifications have already made their strategy to Google Chat inside Gmail. The brand new improvement brings these modifications and extra to the standalone Google Chat Android app.
As noticed by the parents over at Android Authority after tinkering with Google Chat’s current model 2025.06.15.773069301.Launch construct, these modifications embrace a redesigned app dwelling display with a brand new backside bar, tweaks to the direct messages listing, ‘sections’ display, clear separation between components on the Sections display, paired with very minor modifications to the precise chat display.
Broader consistency throughout Google’s apps
Previous (left), new (proper)
For starters, the app’s dwelling display backside bar seems thicker with the brand new change, full with a brand new plus icon to switch the present new chat floating motion button (FAB). It additionally pops with a softer and extra rounded aesthetic, which is in line with Materials 3 Expressive modifications noticed in different Google apps. Elsewhere, icons throughout the backside bar are highlighted with a lighter background when in comparison with the present look.
The Direct messages display seems to focus on the app’s search bar tablet (on the prime) in white as an alternative of a grey gradient, paired with chats being grouped in contrasting containers. The Sections display, however, separates Areas and Apps into their very own separate containers, paired with diminished boldness for headers throughout all pages.
Most significantly, the chat display throughout the Expressive construct seems with a grey message subject (in comparison with the present clear look), paired with a brand new vertical pill-shaped container for the attachment (plus) icon on the left.
These aren’t drastic modifications by any measure, however they do mark essential steps in direction of modernizing the app expertise and bringing visible consistency throughout the tech large’s suite of core apps.
