Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And […]
However, the proof will be in the eating, and we won't know how Google wants to combine the two design principles until it starts updating its iOS apps in the coming years
Google says it’s phasing out its use of its own Material Design components in favor of using more of Apple’s own UIKit. Many are hoping the switch will mean that Google’s iOS apps will look and feel more like they belong on the platform.