[EPIC] Material You/Material 3 Design

[seniorm0ment]

Would be very nice to see the app with a more modern feel. My suggestion is to bring it up to par with Material You design.

Also in the actual screen that displays the mail you are reading ,that screen feels very inconsistent and outdated to the other menus already. Especially if viewed as plaintext only.

[Handrail9]

A material you coat of paint over K-9 Mail would be lovely, especially with the Thunderbird integration coming up

[andsofine]

and don't forget about the navigation bar please

[MXC48]

yes, this will allow for better integration into the Android system

[rezazarchi]

It should be noted that Material 3 is dependent on migration of the entire UI to Jetpack Compose, which constitutes a substantial amount of work. It seems that this constitutes a long-term plan for K-9, although it is acknowledged that there are some tasks involving rewriting some parts of the application (#6974, #6975).

[cketti]

What makes you think the entire UI needs to be migrated to Jetpack Compose?

[rezazarchi]

What makes you think the entire UI needs to be migrated to Jetpack Compose?

I recently came across information in Google documents indicating that Material 3 can be applied with Jetpack Compose using the MaterialTheme but didn't find any official information about Material 3 in the XML way. some parameters like dynamic color scheme and other modern Material You UI components are available in compose library.

[cketti]

If you make statements like this, please link to sources.

Material 3 is supported well enough with XML-based UIs. See the branch material_3_experiments for early experiments.

While some things might be harder than necessary, I don't think switching the whole app to Jetpack Compose is a requirement for using Material 3.

[W1zardK1ng]

waiting for the Material You version of k9 mail.

[Cwpute]

I'd like to say i'm not interested in a Material You design for this app, as Material You uses more space on the screen for the same amount of information. For users like me who have a phone with a not so big screen, this is not good news.

[flexagoon]

@Cwpute k9 has a compact view, and nothing in M3 says you can't have a compact view in a M3 app

[tamirat67]

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[cketti]

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[S0ulf3re]

I would also love to see material you as well

[ThatOneCalculator]

Not quite, Material Design 3 refers to the overall design language (shapes, layouts, etc) while Material You specifically refers to their color palette system.

[gmankab]

I'd like to say i'm not interested in a Material You design for this app, as Material You uses more space on the screen for the same amount of information. For users like me who have a phone with a not so big screen, this is not good news.

you can change scale in settings -> display -> display size and text

[codenyte]

Ltt.rs has a pretty good looking Material 3/Material You user interface

Maybe K9-Mail could do something similar.

[seniorm0ment]

I feel like it'd make most sense to take a look at how Google does Gmail first. Very similar based off the pictures. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.gm

But either way yes, agreed. It makes things feel a lot more consistent with Android 14

[A1X5H04]

I would like to contribute to designs, I would like to create updated screens

[Henry-Hiles]

Well, material 3 seems to be here, and I'm assuming material you is coming soon!

[Henry-Hiles]

Only thing right now is message view is still black-and-white

[TwoF1nger]

k9 has a compact view, and nothing in M3 says you can't have a compact view in a M3 app

The compact view affects only the message list, which is not M3.

The UI elements that were actually changed for M3 do waste space. For example, I now have to scroll in the sidebar in order to see some of the folders. My phone is not small at all.

Some other gripes I have with the recent UI changes:

• the "mark read" button doesn't change based on the read status of the message (I think it did before, but I might be wrong)
• the envelope in Android status bar is now hollow and is harder to recognize as such. The old icon was filled.
• almost half of my screen height is taken by the headers of the message. (Not too bad, as it is scrollable. In Jira, half of my screen is always taken by UI chrome I never use.)

[ThatOneCalculator]

None of what you complained about has anything to do with MD3 or MY.

[wmontwe]

Status update: The Material 3 theme in 6.9xx versions is currently in an alpha state. Our priority is to establish Material 3 support, followed by improvements to the overall theme. At the moment, we're still using a mix of Material 1 and 2 components and styles throughout the app, which needs to be addressed first. Material You is blocked until we finish the Material 3 integration.

[Feuerswut]

Is the background of messages changeable?

Currently it's either white on black or black on white. not white on material background, like in other apps.

@wmontwe