{"id":241769,"date":"2026-05-08T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/google-wallets-colorful-new-passes-ui-looks-nearly-ready\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:35:11","slug":"google-wallets-colorful-new-passes-ui-looks-nearly-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/google-wallets-colorful-new-passes-ui-looks-nearly-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Wallet&#8217;s colorful new passes UI looks nearly ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-wallet-colorful-passes-3665121\/\">Google Wallet&#8217;s colorful new passes UI looks nearly ready<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-wallet-colorful-passes-3665121\/\">https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-wallet-colorful-passes-3665121\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-08 11:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidauthority.com\">www.androidauthority.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edgar Cervantes \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google\u2019s been working on a colorful new design for the interface you see when accessing your passes.<\/li>\n<li>Compared to our first look at this refresh, Google has now added even more color, as well as sorted out some irregular screen elements.<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019re also seeing this new look in preparation for your Play Points balance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A bold design can go a long way towards enhancing an app\u2019s usability. While an interface dominated by text and menus may feel like it offers the most utility, smart use of color and form can help make navigating even complicated apps feel like second nature. A little over a month ago, we took an early look at some of the ways Google Wallet was thinking about a colorful, bold upgrade for the way it worked with passes, and now we\u2019ve got fresh progress to share.<\/p>\n<p>Google Wallet already makes some good choices when it comes to color, employing it in the background for its passes UI to help all your different options stand out. You won\u2019t see this new look in the app just yet, but in Wallet version 26.18.910990572, we\u2019re able to get the app to give us a preview of the more detailed, more colorful changes developers have been working on:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t want to miss the best from Android Authority?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Jg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png\"\/><img class=\"e_Jg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Each pass is still associated with a distinct color \u2014 making them easy to recognize at a glance \u2014 but with this refresh that color is now everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to when we took our first look at this redesign in late March, the interface is now much more polished, and this actually looks pretty close to being ready for introduction. The elements on each screen now transition smoothly between each other, without jarring stops or curved edges showing up where they make no sense. And they now all share the same colorful backdrop.<\/p>\n<p>We also see progress on the Play Points screen:<\/p>\n<p>Last time, we didn\u2019t even have that progress bar towards your next Play Points level working, with a \u201cNot Implemented\u201d text box holding&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-wallet-colorful-passes-3665121\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Wallet&#8217;s colorful new passes UI looks nearly ready https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-wallet-colorful-passes-3665121\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-08 11:59:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Google-Wallet-logo-on-smartphone-next-to-credit-cards-and-cash-Stock-photo-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-241769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241769"}],"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=241769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241771,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241769\/revisions\/241771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}