Material Design apps, part 1: News and information 1. Pocket Casts ($3.99) Pocket Casts brings a bright and enjoyable interface to the Android podcasting experience.

The upcoming "L" version of Android version brings a new user interface, and Google's Web apps will adopt it, too. It's one of many new Android features Google showed at its Google I/O show.

I'm a big fan of apps that follow Google's Material design language guidelines for Android. Here are 6 of my favorite Material-style Android apps that look so good, they could pass for Google apps.

Android can be beautiful. Naysayers might tell you otherwise, but it’s absolutely true. Admittedly, it’s far easier to find visually stunning apps for the iPhone and iPad; truth be told, there ...

Material Design made its major debut with the launch of Android 5.0 Lollipop in the fall, and Google has been rapidly updating its own apps and services to take advantage of the new design directives.

Jul 3, 2014, 5:11 PM PT Android design chief Matias Duarte at Google I/O Google If you're an avid Android user, your phone's software is about to look a whole lot different in the next few months.

In its developer keynote today, Google announced a new Compose for TV development toolkit that should make it a lot easier to create apps with beautiful, TV-centric UIs.