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                  It has been a few days since the release of Android 8.1 Developer Preview which packed with some new major changes which you can check out by clicking here . One of the most obvious change if the new transparent quick settings. And the good thing is that you can get it on your smartphone without updating to the developer preview or any root. What you will need is the same app we talked about some days before i.e. Material Design Notification Shade by which can get the Oreo notification shade with features like snoozing notifications. Now, the app has been updated so that you can get the transparent quick settings just like in Android 8.1. If you want to give it a try, your can download it from the link below and give it access to the permissions it is asking for. That's it guys, see you in the next one. Material Notification Shade - Android Apps in Google Play Also Read: Confirmed: MIUI 9 Stable ROM releasing...

It has now been a while since the release of Android Oreo but no smartphone has yet got the update expect some Google phones. One of the major changes in the update was the new quick settings look and snoozing notifications feature which was really impressive. So, the question arises that how can you get it on your smartphone without any root access required? Here is the answer for you. I don't know if you know about this app or not. This app is Material Notification Shade. And this app can turn your notification shade and quick settings into material design of Nougat or Oreo, no matter what phone you are using. If you are wondering how does it do this all stuff, here's how? In actual, it does not change your notification shade but draws another one over them and so, doesn't requires any root. Not only changing the way your notifications look but also brings some other features too. You can reply directly from notifications, snooze them, colour music notification...

Google Calendar has finally made its move towards the Google material design policy which is nice to see. The new look brings some new features also packed inside. However, you have to manually set it. It is already live for all the G Suite users but if you are not on, here's how you can enable it. It is as easy as reading this post. Just visit calendar.google.com  and click the 'Use new calendar' button and her you have it. Some users (even me) are not seeing the button on their web app. For those, you can click this link  to have the button. Finally, here's the cool new material design look of the Google Calendar web app. Now, the Calendar web app has added a multi-column Day view, so you can more easily view events from multiple calendars at once. You can also now add rich text formatting and hyperlinks to calendar invites, view contact info of event participants, easily restore deleted items, and more easily share calendars. Also Rea...

Chrome is the first thing that comes to my mind when thinking of browsers. There is a big chance that you will be reading this article on Chrome. The browser is already a great browser but there are some Chrome flags which can enhance your experience with material design on Chrome. For those, who don't know that what actually Chrome flags are? This is the place of experimental features of Chrome which are still in development or can be used to enable or disable some features. You can see the Chrome flags by typing  chrome://flags  in Chrome. Don't think that the design of Chrome will completely change from every corner. There will be some elements and pages where you will see the changes. There is a probability that not even all of them work. Let's move on to the main topic without any further due. Here's the list of all of those flags. Material Design Google's work on pushing material design to all of its products is still not complete and can be noticed...