Explore Android | Material3 Color Schemes And Material Design Components

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3 min readSep 14, 2022

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Material Design 3 in android was introduced to guide developers on How to style their Material Components. We will be seeing the Color System of this latest library.

Color Schemes

There are total 5 types of key colors:
1. Primary Color
2. Secondary Color
3. Tertiary Color
4. Neutral Color
5. Neutral Variant Color

How many important color roles are there?

Primary Colors
Secondary Colors
Tertiary Color
Neutral Color
Neutral Variant & Inverse Colors

Let’s use those colors to style our various components. We will see how different colors affect the different components.

Material3 Theme Colors

Buttons

Material3 theme colors used in various Filed Button, Outline Button & Elevated Button

FAB

Material3 theme colors used in FAB & Extended FAB

Chips

Material3 theme colors used in Assist Chip, Filter Chip & Input Chip

InputTextLayout

Material3 theme colors used in InputTextLayout

Switches

Material3 theme colors used in Switches

Material3 Date Picker

Material3 theme colors used in Material Date Picker

Material3 Time Picker

Material3 theme colors used in Material Time Picker

Date Picker Dialog

Material3 theme colors used in Date Picker Dialog

Snackbar

Material3 theme colors used in Snackbar

With these examples, I hope you can visualize how different colors are used in different design components. This is how we style material components with Material3 Theming. Each color has its own importance and role.

Material3 brings a lot more… Material design with better Accessibility, Variable fonts & icons, Dynamic colors, Theme Builder, and more!
Stay tuned!

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