Since the launch of Material Design in 2014, it has been the most used(and loved) visual design language! This is because of two main reasons:

Unification: Visual language which works across the platform. Intuition: Core principle of Material Design is how “Material / Surface” behaves. This makes it almost obvious to the user what will happen on the interaction.

But Google wants Material Design to be much more than just another Visual language. Google is building tools to improve our design-development workflow! Here are the big announcement made in this year’s Google I/O:

Material Theming

This is a huge upgrade to Material Design! Material Theming is the ability to “systematically” customize Material Design to better reflect your product’s brand. Let me explain what systematically means here:

The brand is represented visually by colors, typography and shapes.

So we need a way to change these things in Material Components, too!

Earlier to make such changes we had to use multiple plugins to update Sketch symbols/library, but now we have “Material Theme Editor”.