{"id":246131,"date":"2026-05-14T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/google-just-made-android-even-prettier-in-its-latest-canary-release\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:30:07","slug":"google-just-made-android-even-prettier-in-its-latest-canary-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/google-just-made-android-even-prettier-in-its-latest-canary-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Google just made Android even prettier in its latest Canary release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pocket-lint.com\/google-adds-more-blur-to-android-in-latest-canary-release\/\">Google just made Android even prettier in its latest Canary release<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pocket-lint.com\/google-adds-more-blur-to-android-in-latest-canary-release\/\">https:\/\/www.pocket-lint.com\/google-adds-more-blur-to-android-in-latest-canary-release\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-14 17:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pocket-lint.com\">www.pocket-lint.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hot off the heals of The Android Show: I\/O 2026 Edition, Google has seeded an all-new preview build of Android to users of the operating system&#8217;s Canary branch. Known technically as Android Canary 2605, this latest update doubles down on the translucent blur effects that first shipped on the Pixel in     <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"209462\">Android 16<\/span> Quarterly Platform Release 1 (QPR1) in the fall of last year.     <\/p>\n<p>Chiefly, Android Canary 2605 adds additional blur elements to several parts of Android&#8217;s user interface, including the volume slider flyout, the expanded volume picker platter, the home screen context menu, and the power menu (via 9to5Google). These new blur elements supplement the existing Material 3 Expressive design framework     <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"210984\">Google<\/span> has been building out since last year.    <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth pointing out that these additional     <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"212115\">Android<\/span> user interface blur effects were expected to arrive sooner or later, with the refresh having previously leaked online (via Android Authority). Nevertheless, it&#8217;s great to see it live in a functioning build of the platform, bringing us one step closer to having the visual touch-up release to the public in stable form (perhaps as early as Android 17 QPR1).    <\/p>\n<p>         &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pocket-lint.com\/google-adds-more-blur-to-android-in-latest-canary-release\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google just made Android even prettier in its latest Canary release https:\/\/www.pocket-lint.com\/google-adds-more-blur-to-android-in-latest-canary-release\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-14&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.pocketlintimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/05\/android-16-settings.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72],"class_list":["post-246131","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\/246131"}],"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=246131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246133,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246131\/revisions\/246133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}