Google reduced Material You’s tall bottom bar in Gmail for Android

Earlier, the new Google design language began widely rolling out to Gmail for Android in some countries. As part of that launch, Google has significantly cut the Material You bottom bar in Gmail.

The Material You elements across first-party apps especially Workspace clients include a tablet-shaped search field, a square FAB, and a long bottom bar, which uses a pill-shaped index to highlight the tab you’re currently looking at.

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This new navigation feature was used when the reconstruction first reached Gmail but has now been shortened as part of a broader release. The space is evenly removed from the top and bottom, as well as between the icon and the text label.

Due to this decrease, you no longer see any more emails, but the compose button goes down a bit. For now, the tap/ripple animation has been removed. The end result is a bottom bar that is not much different from the previous one. While the long UI was made for visual acuity, it didn’t change the feeling of using and navigating apps.

Gmail today is the only Material You app that has run its bar below. Google Phone, Drive, and Photos still retain very long items, or that redesign will be widely available. As it is, it is too early to say whether Google has changed its mind about the long bottom bar following the actual response.