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Facebook Messenger App Now Has Material Design

Mar 8, 2016 12:48 AM
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Facebook is finally pushing out the latest version of its Messenger app for Android, complete with a new Material Design user interface.

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Messenger's new look.

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It's a little cleaner than the old version.

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Messenger's new look.

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It's a little cleaner than the old version.

The update, which has been in the works for a while, gives Messenger a slightly different look—the action bar will now appear blue with white icons, rather than white with blue icons as it was before.

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The new Messenger UI action bar is blue with white icons.

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Compared to the previous version, which was the opposite.

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The new Messenger UI action bar is blue with white icons.

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Compared to the previous version, which was the opposite.

While the option to change the standard blue thumps up emoji to another one has been around for a while, the other emojis you can set in its place can now be sent in various sizes, too. Just press-and-hold the emoji icon to change its size.

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The new design also adds a floating action bubble (FAB) to help you get a new conversation going in a flash. It also looks a lot nicer than the blue action bar across the bottom of the old version of the app. Pressing the FAB opens up three more icons, so that you can start a message, search, or make a call.

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The update to Messenger is being rolled out server-side, but you should get it shortly if you haven't already.

What do you think of the new look? What's your favorite new emoji to use in a conversation, and why is it the poop emoji?

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