The UI for Fenix is dated. Some things need a little bit of love and others just don’t make sense at all, like when you paste a URL, you can’t see the URL or the Paste and Paste & Go options because the system pop up gets in the way.
Material Design and by extension Android moved away from pop ups and toasts and adopted elements like bottom sheets.
The custom share sheet is a nuisance and there’s not even a way to get to the native share sheet.
Firefox for Android works, but it doesn’t look or feel like a modern browser that was designed for modern Android.
So being that Android design has evolved so much since Fenix last got a lick of paint, I’m wondering, has anyone heard of anything in the works? Seen any commits or mockups? Screenshots? A mention on Matrix or the mailing lists?
This is not right, the material libraries are a part of AndroidX, which has the current minimum SDK version 14 (Android 4.0.1), and will soon move to minimum SDK version 19 (Android 4.4). Compose, which is completely feasible to build the UI for Firefox for Android, has the minimum SDK version 21 (Android 5.0) iirc.
If I had to guess, I’d say that the Firefox for Android simply has not prioritized adopting Material You.
Good information. Thank you for the clarification!