Google Chrome was seen testing the new material you design a few months ago. Since then, as spotted by Android Police, developers at Google have made some progress with dynamic color themes, and Chrome's Material You has started to take shape. In this article, we'll take a look at how you can test Chrome's upcoming Material You design ahead of its public release later this year.
An early look at the Material You Chrome theme
To get the Material You aesthetic in Google Chrome, you need to enable two Chrome flags in the Canary build of your handset. It goes without saying that you need an Android phone running Android 12 for the feature to work properly. With that out of the way, let's take a look at the steps:
1. Open Chrome Flags (chrome://flags) and enable the flags mentioned below, and don't forget to restart the browser after enabling them. In particular, you should set the "Dynamic Colors on Android" flag to "Enabled (Full)".
2. If you don't immediately see the feature, remove Chrome Canary from the recent apps page and open the app manually. You will now notice that Chrome's UI elements follow the Material You design language. Check out some examples of Chrome changing the interface color based on the background below:
