After a month with Material 3 Expressive, I admit I was wrong

When the first signs of Material 3 Expressive started showing up in Android’s QPR betas, I wasn’t impressed. Even as my colleague Mishaal raved about it and how good it looked and documented its progress in every beta, I still didn’t jump on that hype train. When the update finally landed with Android 16 QPR1, I avoided installing it for a few weeks. In my mind, I was protesting against another unnecessary design change.

Material You was good enough. It still looked nice, it worked well, I was…