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Material You music widget

By the WidgetCraft team · Updated November 13, 2026

A Material You music widget shows the song that is playing with play, pause and skip controls. Android 12-style tonal colors, large rounded shapes and friendly type. This page gives the exact colors, type settings and layers, with a preview drawn from the same values.

Material You music widget design preview: Android 12-style tonal colors, large rounded shapes and friendly type. — Design preview drawn from the recipe below. Example values are shown; your widget uses live data.

What a Material You music widget shows

A now-playing widget shows cover art, the track and artist, a progress line and three controls. It works with whichever app is playing, not one particular service.

Reading the current track needs Android's notification access and a media connection, which is a Pro feature in WidgetCraft. The controls send play, pause and skip to the app that is playing.

How the Material You style shapes it

Material You is the design language Google introduced with Android 12. Widgets use soft tonal colors drawn from the wallpaper, very round corners and big readable numbers. This recipe recreates the look with fixed colors you choose.

Photos: Clip photos to large rounded rectangles or a scalloped shape if you draw one.
Text: Use a friendly sans at medium weight in a dark tone of the same hue as the background.
Bars and rings: Use thick pill bars and full circles in the primary color on a lighter container.

Material You music widget recipe

Layer	Settings
Canvas	360 × 180, background #E8DEF8, corner radius 28
Image	cover art 140 × 140, radius 18, connected to media artwork
Text	track title, Google Sans or Roboto, size 20, color #1D192B, one line
Text	artist, size 14, color #625B71
Progress	a thick 12-point bar with rounded ends, 156 wide, progress #6750A4
Shapes	previous, play/pause and next; play in #6750A4, others in #1D192B, each with a tap action
Ornament	a large circle in the darker container tone, tucked into the bottom right corner
Font	Google Sans or Roboto (import the font file), or the built-in Sans
Home screen size	4 × 2 cells

Material You color palette

Tonal lavender #E8DEF8Background
Primary container #D0BCFFSurface and tracks
On-surface #1D192BText
Outline grey #625B71Labels
Primary purple #6750A4Accent

How to make a Material You music widget in WidgetCraft

Create a widget and open Canvas. Set the size to 360 × 180, the background to #E8DEF8 and the corner radius to 28.
Open Data and set up the media connection; Android will ask for notification access.
Add an Image layer, 140 × 140 with radius 18, and connect it to the cover art.
Add two Text layers connected to the track title (size 20, #1D192B) and the artist (size 14, #625B71).
Add a Progress layer as a thick 12-point bar with rounded ends in #6750A4, then three shapes for the controls. In Tap, assign previous, play/pause and next.
Add the Material You ornament with Shape layers and move them below the other layers in Layers: a large circle in the darker container tone, tucked into the bottom right corner.
Tap Save, then Add to home screen and resize the widget on your launcher if needed.

The layout and styling are free. The live data connection for this widget needs WidgetCraft Pro, a one-time purchase.

Tips for Material You music widgets

Take background, container and text from one hue at different lightness.
Use 28 points of corner radius.
Long titles must truncate on one line; never let them wrap into the controls.
Make each control at least 48 dp wide so it is easy to hit.
The widget only shows a track while a media app has an active session.
Do not mix unrelated hues.
Do not use hairline borders.

Questions about the Material You music widget

What size is a Material You music widget?

It is designed for 4 × 2 home screen cells on a 360 × 180 canvas. You can resize it on the launcher and the design scales in proportion.

Which colors does it use?

Tonal lavender (#E8DEF8) for the background, On-surface (#1D192B) for the main text, Outline grey (#625B71) for labels and Primary purple (#6750A4) as the accent.

Is it free to make?

The Material You design is free to build. Showing live track details needs the one-time Pro upgrade.

What else is this style called?

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