Google presented a new approach to Material Design this year at Google’s I / O, Material You. Its highlight feature is its vibrant colors based on the wallpaper, making it beautifully composed interfaces. So far, only a handful of apps have been updated to support these themes, but it looks like Google is working hard to update their proprietary apps to take advantage of the new theme mechanics. Among them is Chrome, which has just received the first wallpaper-based elements in the latest version under development, Chrome Canary v93.

As 9to5Google reports, you can enable the Canary wallpaper-based theme via two flags (chrome: // flags # dynamic-color-android and chrome: // flags # theme-refactor-android). The description of the former says you need to be running Android 12 to see the difference, which makes sense – the official wallpaper-based theme engine is only available there.

Wallpapers and their corresponding themes.

Once you enable both indicators and restart your browser, you will see bursts and splashes of color in the Chrome interface. Most notably, the tab grid tabs are now dipped in wallpaper-based colors, with the currently active website marked with a darker accent. The changes are also visible in the highlight color of the text in the address bar, in the top settings bar, and in some toggles.

All of this is clearly still a work in progress, however. Text highlights on websites remain blue, the address bar is not associated with the wallpaper color, and the overflow menu is still unaffected. With Chrome 93 slated to become stable in early August, Google has a few months to get everything in order before Android 12 hits platform stability, so we’ll likely see more and more design changes in it. Android application interface.

You can download Chrome Canary from the Play Store or from APK Mirror. Remember that this is the least stable version of the browser. We recommend that you stick to the standard version for your daily browsing sessions.

Chrome Canary (Unstable)
Chrome Canary (Unstable)