WhatsApp for Android is updated with Material Design

WhatsApp for Android received a couple of days ago a new update that brought the application to version 2.11.498 and brought some interesting news as the new permission to send sticky broadcasts. What seems happened a little unnoted is that the application already has his first touches of Material Design that begins to arrive with Android 5.0 Lollipop, something that many of us could appreciate in Beta version.

The latest update of WhatsApp for Android did not come with an official list of new features, so it was a little more difficult than usual to know them all at first hand. A more precise look has unearthed among other things, This update brings the first signs that Material Design is becoming the basis for adapting the application to the new OS.

WhatsApp for Android with Material Design

Two details that have been applied are the notification bar, which is of a darker color, and now icons depicting the image of our contacts are round. Something that is more in line with the new aesthetic parameters that brings Material Design.

For now we can not say it’s a radical change in WhatsApp for Android, furthermore, to see these changes we must have installed Android 5.0 Lollipop in our smartphone. Are the first works that will be expanded gradually.

WhatsApp for Android is available free on Google Play.

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