{"id":240655,"date":"2026-05-07T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/google-on-android-adopting-liquid-glass-not-happening\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T01:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:05:07","slug":"google-on-android-adopting-liquid-glass-not-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/google-on-android-adopting-liquid-glass-not-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, on Android adopting Liquid Glass: &#8220;Not happening!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgetmatch.com\/google-android-liquid-glass\/\">Google, on Android adopting Liquid Glass: &#8220;Not happening!&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgetmatch.com\/google-android-liquid-glass\/\">https:\/\/www.gadgetmatch.com\/google-android-liquid-glass\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-07 01:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.gadgetmatch.com\">www.gadgetmatch.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google is slightly moving away from Material Design. Last week, a set of icon changes saw Android adding splashes of gradients to its formerly flat app icons. To poke fun at Android\u2019s move away from flat designs, a user on X created a mockup of Android running Apple\u2019s Liquid Design. Google, however, had a response ready in the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>On X, @Micetor made a mockup of Android, specifically on the upcoming Pixel 11, using Apple\u2019s latest Liquid Design aesthetics. It looked much like what an iPhone does except with Google\u2019s icons and fonts.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, Google does not need to reply to any unsubstantiated mockups about its ecosystem. But they still did.<\/p>\n<p>Sameer Samat, Google\u2019s head for the Android ecosystem, personally replied to the mockup with a simple rebuttal: \u201cNot happening!\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not happening! Y&#8217;all are wild. \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sameer Samat (@ssamat) May 5, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Despite using the design language for over a decade, Google does not want to drop Material Design altogether. Though the new gradients have revitalized the design language somewhat, the essence of flat design is still there.<\/p>\n<p>Apple, on the other hand, wants a return to 3D. Liquid Design mimics the transparent aesthetics of Windows Vista. Though a bunch of users have found the design polarizing, other brands have started copying the design for themselves, incorporating elements on Liquid Design on their interfaces.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever Google is doing, it\u2019s coming in due time. The company is hosting its annual Google I\/O on May 12 to showcase new developments coming to the Android ecosystem, including its design.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO:<\/strong> More iPhone switchers this year than Android switchers, report says<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgetmatch.com\/google-android-liquid-glass\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google, on Android adopting Liquid Glass: &#8220;Not happening!&#8221; https:\/\/www.gadgetmatch.com\/google-android-liquid-glass\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-07 01:03:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gadgetmatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/251008-GadgetMatch-TECNO-SPARK-Slim-Usage-HiOS-15-Android-15-Google-Gemini-Main-1000x600.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72],"class_list":["post-240655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240657,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240655\/revisions\/240657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}